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  • I need help but I don’t even know what to search for. I want my site to have the menu (www.purelydenise.com) like this: Home, About me, Gallery, Stories, Contact me. Then, under each (or within those page/categories) I want separate pages like “here’s my story”.

    I hope this makes sense to someone. I want to have just categories, with several separate pages underneath (dropdown menu).

    I do apologize but I got so confused with all the vid’s and text tutorials, overwhelmed I suppose.

    Any help appreciated. Denise

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  • Here’s info on setting up the menu –

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_Screen

    Thread Starter nwcountry

    (@nwcountry)

    Ok yogi, thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I may be back if I don’t “get it” but hopefully a light-bulb will come on in my brain;) Denise

    Thread Starter nwcountry

    (@nwcountry)

    Hi again,

    How do I do this: Support for this feature must be registered in the theme’s functions.php file.

    I am not sure what they mean, or how to do it?

    Thank you again, Denise

    You can ignore that. It’s already been added to the theme. Try reviewing custom menus instead.

    Thread Starter nwcountry

    (@nwcountry)

    ok, will do:) thank you again. When I get edjee’cated I’ll help you out answering all these funky question;) denise

    How do I do this: Support for this feature must be registered in the theme’s functions.php file.

    You only need to worry about that if your theme does not support custom menus and most of themes now do support custom menus.

    No problem. We’d appreciative your help whenever you feel able. 🙂

    Thread Starter nwcountry

    (@nwcountry)

    Oh, I have more help!! thanks Esmi and Govpatel. I have the 2011 theme, as you probably know, so ok, I will go read about about custom menus.
    Denise

    Thread Starter nwcountry

    (@nwcountry)

    I already started blogging/writing content. I will have to save that and start over I suspect, after doing the menu “the right way”. Any comments/directions welcome. I will be busy reading about the menus though, custom that is;) denise

    You should be able to create, change or amend a custom menu at any point in your site’s life without any impact on its content. Content and menus are 2 entirely different things.

    Thread Starter nwcountry

    (@nwcountry)

    Thank you esmi, I am following the steps but when I get into “menu” under appearance, I do a “view all” and only get the menu bar items. I’m trying to see how I can for instance show this:

    Stories (on main menu)
    – Online-Dating
    – Inline-Skating (both these as menu items under main “Stories”

    I see a picture of what I want in the codex/directions, but can’t find my way to the “arrange” pages and sub-pages. I need to build the dropdown menu don’t I? I’ll keep reading. Denise

    Thread Starter nwcountry

    (@nwcountry)

    Ok, I am getting it, but my “posts” aren’t showing up as separate pages so they appear on the list, to select, in order to move to the right slightly, to show as sub-menu, or is it category? I’ll keep reading. Denise

    Thread Starter nwcountry

    (@nwcountry)

    Ok, so I just do “pages” not “posts”, make a “page” for each story and then it will show up in item list so I can do the hierarchy thing. I think, lol, Denise

    You can have the category in first level and then your posts for that category in 2nd level so
    Stories should be your category
    and then you add posts for that category on 2nd level by dragging slightly to right.

    You should have boxes on left for posts pages categories if you do not see them then click on screen options on top right hand corner and tick what you want see.You can see how i have done on my site by clicking on my name. Top menus are my pages and bottom has my categories and drop down are my posts.

    Thread Starter nwcountry

    (@nwcountry)

    but if I don’t change the posts to pages, I can’t get them to show up here so I can set them as hierarchy order:

    [img]http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/nwcountry/forwpforums.jpg[/img]

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