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Andreas Nurbo on "W3 Total Cache causing problems with theme menu"

Andreas Nurbo — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:41:45 +0000

COuld you guys submit a bug report from the Support page? Perhaps attach the theme template file as well.

natpacker on "Custom Community Pages not showing in menu"

natpacker — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:33:19 +0000

I have been using Custom Community theme. I had a 2 tier page menu structure which was working fine from the menu. e.g. When I hovered over my 'Babies' menu, it would show my pages underneath babies of which I have 5 pages. Now for some reason it only shows the first one of my pages (under the parent Babies) which is Baby Language. The rest of them don't show.

At the same time the menu also changed and put 'Home' on a different line to the rest of my pages.

Also another problem that happened at the same time is the features images show on the right hand side seem to have some sort of box in front of them preventing half of them from being seen.

Many thanks

AhmedJ on "Menus"

AhmedJ — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:21:34 +0000

Hi esmi,

Yes, with the same results "Nothing Found" error message.

Thank you!

Edit: My apology, I had the post in a different menu, while the them only support one menu.

Edit 2: How can I make the post only displays when I click on the sub-cat and not on the main category. And only display the sub-cats when I click on the main cat?

esmi on "Menus"

esmi — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:10:28 +0000

I've tried using categories and the thing is when you click on a category with no posts, you will get a "Nothing found" error message; even though, there are sub-categories and posts in those sub-categories.

That's not standard theme behaviour. Have you tried switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?

AhmedJ on "Menus"

AhmedJ — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:03:33 +0000

Hi,

I'm new to wp and I have a question regarding menus.

I've tried using categories and the thing is when you click on a category with no posts, you will get a "Nothing found" error message; even though, there are sub-categories and posts in those sub-categories.
It's imperative that I use categories because I'll be using the "Onswipe" plug-in for mobile devices, and the only way to add something to the menu is if you added categories. In addition, I want for the category with no posts to display the sub-categories and/or a message "paragraph."

An example of what I want to accomplish:

-Home
-Showcase
-Themes
-"And explanation of what themes are and the sub-cats if any"
--Newest
---XXX
---XXX
--Most popular
--"And explanation of what the most popular themes are and the sub-cats if any"
-Plugins
-"And explanation of what Plugins are and the sub-cats if any"
--Newest
---XXX
---XXX
--Most popular
--"And explanation of what the most popular Plugins are and the sub-cats if any"
-Mobile
-About

Thank y'all for your help in advance!

laurentlanglais on "Changing colors in top menu tabs - Intrepidity theme"

laurentlanglais — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:26:19 +0000

Ok problem solved - it was not in the css but as an image and I have changed the image for a rainbow banner as you can see here
http://www.queeromancy.com

vtxyzzy on "Menus"

vtxyzzy — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:09:21 +0000

You can add code to your templates to select menus for different Pages. Here is an article with some details:

http://jc-designs.net/blog/2011/06/displaying-menus-on-specific-pages-in-wordpress/

You might also be able to use the Custom Page Menus plugin.

etcbbu on "Menus"

etcbbu — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:23:17 +0000

This topic is about the default Menus that you can create in WordPress by default.

Is it possible to have multiple "Menus" set up, and then define on which Pages of your WordPress site certain of those menus will be? Like, can you specify on what pages this-and-this Menu will show up? You may want a certain kind of menu on three Pages, and then maybe another Menu you created for another three Pages, etc.?

--etcbbu

laurentlanglais on "Changing colors in top menu tabs - Intrepidity theme"

laurentlanglais — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:20:50 +0000

Yep I'll look into it and see if it can help...but the problem I foresee is that it's not just one line of code to change - there is one color for all tabs and that's it. I need to create new line of codes that link the ID of specific pages to specific colors - this is where I need the skills of some of you guys...

esmi on "Changing colors in top menu tabs - Intrepidity theme"

esmi — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:31:41 +0000

Try using Firefox with the Firebug add-on for this kind of CSS work.
http://getfirebug.com/

laurentlanglais on "Changing colors in top menu tabs - Intrepidity theme"

laurentlanglais — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:41:14 +0000

Hi guys
I am using the theme Intrepidity theme that I like very much - but zero support on this one so I'd need your help.

My site: http://www.queeromancy.com

With this theme every time you add a page they appear in the top menu as tabs, and can be excluded. As my site as a gay and lesbian audience (psychic for the LGBT community) I would ideally like to change to color of some of the tabs associated with the pages, and display a look that is close to the rainbow flag.

That means I'd like to have in this order: red, orange, yellow, green violet, and blue tab (the blue is already there by default).

Any step by step help on the coding and how to do it would be much appreciated...

Thanks!

etcbbu on ""Choose your language"--questions about WP Menus"

etcbbu — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:56:13 +0000

Hi all,

Does anyone know how to maybe configure a WordPress site to ask the user to "Choose your language" similarly to how the United Nation's website does on its front page:

http://www.un.org/

I am already using a static "Page" on my website that I'm trying to do this "Choose Your Language" thing on:

http://ktravisj.com/media4change/wordpress/

I've got one way I think it could be done, but let me know if there may be a better way:

- make the homepage say "choose your language", and do NOT have that top menu bar there yet with the choices "Members", "V-Logs and blog", etc.

- after user clicks a language, depending on what language they chose, they are taken to another "homepage" (which would really just be another "Page" of the website) that is in the language they chose, and then from there, have its menu at the top be in that language and everything, and links to those pages of the website that are literally created in each new language.

We want to have six different languages. So if I do it this way, I'd literally have six different "Menus" in my WordPress site, and then 24 different pages (those four pages that are represented at the top on that menu bar, times six languages).

The only only only drawbacks I see are two things, and they are related to the "Menu" at the top of the page.

First, I'd want to remove the top navigation menu that is on the front page:

http://ktravisj.com/media4change/wordpress/

from being there, because I want the users to be able to choose a language beFORE seeing a menu in a given language at the top of the screen yet. Is it possible to stop the menu from showing up on just a page like that?

And then secondly, if I build this site of 24 pages, some of the pages will have a menu in one certain language, and the other will have the menu in another language. Is THAT possible..? To dictate which menu shows up on which "Pages"..?

etcbbu on ""Choose your language"--questions about "Menus""

etcbbu — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:42:53 +0000

Hi all,

Does anyone know how to maybe configure a WordPress site to ask the user to "Choose your language" similarly to how the United Nation's website does on its front page:

http://www.un.org/

I am already using a static "Page" on my website that I'm trying to do this "Choose Your Language" thing on:

http://ktravisj.com/media4change/wordpress/

I've got one way I think it could be done, but let me know if there may be a better way:

- make the homepage say "choose your language", and do NOT have that top menu bar there yet with the choices "Members", "V-Logs and blog", etc.

The only only only drawbacks I see are two things, and they are related to the "Menu" at the top of the page.

First, I'd want to remove the top navigation menu that is on the front page:

http://ktravisj.com/media4change/wordpress/

Alex997 on "Category, tag links yield "page not found" errors"

Alex997 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:21:02 +0000

I just had this issue on an accountancy blog I manage - after changing hosting companies.

None of the tag or category links were working - all giving a page not found error.

I checked the old site still running on the previous hosting companies servers and that works fine.

The solution was to switch to an out of the box theme (eg. twentyeleven) - test (yes it works) - and then switch back. That fixed it!

Perhaps the tag.php or category.php wasn't loading properly for some reason?!

Either way, it's working again now.

Olegs on "Won't let me save custom menu."

Olegs — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:58:10 +0000

Hi having the same issue, my menu has lots of list items and need to be added more, what happening is I can neither delete nor add a menu item, i.e I delete an item or add but when I try to save page goes blank in Firefox, and displays the following error in Chrome The website encountered an error while retrieving http://mysite.com/blog/wp-admin/nav-menus.php. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.
Theme: Twenty Eleven,
Plugins: all deactivated;
WP version: 3.3.2

I would appreciate any help, sorry for repeating the same question, I could not find answer in the above discussion

Olegs on "Not Able to Save Custom Menu Selection?"

Olegs — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:55:09 +0000

Hi having the same issue, my menu has lots of list items and need to be added more, what happening is I can neither delete nor add a menu item, i.e I delete an item or add but when I try to save page goes blank in Firefox, and displays the following error in Chrome The website encountered an error while retrieving http://mysite.com/blog/wp-admin/nav-menus.php. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.
Theme: Twenty Eleven,
Plugins: all deactivated;
WP version: 3.3.2

I would appreciate any help, sorry for repeat the same question, I could not find answer in the above discussion

egr102 on "How can I assign a post to a parent page using WP 3 Menus?"

egr102 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:42:56 +0000

Fixed.

I did a few CSS workarounds and PHP if statements in the header to achieve my desired outcome in the end.

egr102 on "How can I assign a post to a parent page using WP 3 Menus?"

egr102 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:50:16 +0000

Unfortunately this isn't what I require. I suppose my emphasis is on the breadcrumb, ideally I'd like the URL to read http://mydomain.com/work/example-work-post

Has anyone got any ideas at all?

hulku on "How can I assign a post to a parent page using WP 3 Menus?"

hulku — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:02:01 +0000

Regarding the navigation theres a custom links option in the new menu system, you could just add the posts you want to feature under work as custom links?

Sorry if i'm not understanding your question properly

egr102 on "How can I assign a post to a parent page using WP 3 Menus?"

egr102 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:36:06 +0000

Obviously when you write a new post there isn't a drop down menu in the admin post page to select a parent, unlike when you create a new page. Is there a plugin that will allow me to assign articles to a parent page?

For example, I have a page called 'Work' with static content on. My theme is setup to add a new piece of work using Posts and not pages. Using the new Menus option in WordPress v3 I would like to assign each new piece of work to sit under the 'Work' parent. How can I do this?

For reference, I don't want all work posts to be displayed in the navigation is any form, I just want the children of the 'Work' page to be a bunch of posts. I'd also just like to have my ".current-menu-item a" styles to be applied to the 'Work' link when viewing a work post.

I hope that makes sense :)

jenmc on "a search menu in the main content"

jenmc — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:33:12 +0000

I have a page for my company's product. I want to put in some kind of search menu for our entire list of product. Specifically, I want something like this http://ballhort.com/Growers/advancedsearch.aspx

I know there are plugins for custom menus, but I don't want it to be in a sidebar. I want it to be in the main content. I'm still new at this and have been trying to research it. I know basic html, but that's about it. What's the easiest way? Any help is greatly appreciated.

aledarbo on "Kin theme - creating a new gallery using menus, categories"

aledarbo — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:31:06 +0000

Hello elymt:

I had the same problem like you and I used this link:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

After create a custom menu (Appearance > menus), add categories and pages to your custom menu, finally choose it like primary menu (KIN template only works with one)

Kin's manual is not very clear, it seems more easy than true.

DevGrousis on "[Plugin: WP E-Commerce] Making product categories into top links"

DevGrousis — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:10:00 +0000

This did fix my problem! Thanks!!

unholychipmunk on "[Plugin: WP E-Commerce] Making product categories into top links"

unholychipmunk — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:32:12 +0000

Hi DevGrousis,

I think the solution to the problem you are describing can be found here:

WordPress E-commerce Product Categories Not Showing in Theme Menus

If this helps you, please let me know by adding a comment on there.

Thanks.

desie314 on "Custom menu meta box in admin=>appearance=>menus"

desie314 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:05:08 +0000

I'm trying to create a custom meta box in the admin=>appearance=>menus page and have it's items save in a menu, just like the other meta boxes (post/pages/categories/tags/links).

The wp api does not seem to make this easy. I've managed to create a custom meta box but I don't know how to get it's items to show up in a menu once "add to menu" is clicked.

if anyone could help me out I'd really appreciate it. I assume there is ajax involved but I can't find where to do what.

Thanks.

esmi on "Difference between menus and pages"

esmi — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:52:18 +0000

Menus are made of up of lists of Pages or Categories. Therefore you cannot "decide between Pages or menus" since that's like trying to compare apples & oranges. Whether the menu(s) on your site contain links to any Pages is entirely up to you. How you create the menus themselves is also up to you as WordPress offers a number of different approaches to suit different needs.

hma66 on "Difference between menus and pages"

hma66 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:44:13 +0000

I am trying to make sense of what you mentioned. As a matter of fact, , I know how to create pages and menus. However, I am at a loss whether I should create pages for top navigation or menus. Currently, I have menus listing up in the navigation. But the links are not going anywhere. On the other hand, if I create pages, I can immediately get links to the pages I have created.

Chip Bennett on "Difference between menus and pages"

Chip Bennett — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:25:19 +0000

Have a read in the Codex regarding static Pages and navigation menus.

hma66 on "Difference between menus and pages"

hma66 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:10:04 +0000

Hello there,

I made a site in which I added menus. I am confused whether I should have created pages instead of menus to show up in the navigation? what is the basic difference between the two? Any help out there?

Thanks

JsonB123 on "Adding media post type to Menus"

JsonB123 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:06:55 +0000

I was wondering if there is a way (I've searched for a plugin with no success) to add the Media Post type to the menus system. Basically, I just want to make it easier for someone to link to a PDF via the Menus system by utilizing a checkbox system on the menus page rather than cutting and pasting the file URL from the Media Library entry.

Does anyone know if this is even possible? I know that everything in WordPress is basically a "post type" so I figured it would be but I'm not sure where to start.

Thanks for reading!