After searching the support section and Codex files for neigh on two weeks, I’ve finally succumbed to penning my questions here.
It’s got to the point that I’m beyond frustrated; I’m almost ready to give up on WP and go back to using Frontpage, but if I do that I miss out on so much, which naturally I don’t want to do. So here’s my problem...
<u>Horizontal menu</u>
I used the CSS I designed in Frontpage 2003, modified some of the coding to support Wordpress & php and I’m eager to get it on my site. However the horizontal menu doesn’t function properly (or even at all) because it has no destination links - at least I DON'T believe that it does, is probably more appropriate.
I’ve made the horizontal menu my primary navigation for the site so it’s important that I understand how WP & php works. In Frontpage, if I wanted a primary navigation link to go somewhere, I just hand coded the destination page link into the navigational structure and it would work. But here? I’m confused. My existing HTML in header.php
<div id="header" title="navigation">
<div id="mainnav">
">Home |
Articles |
Topics |
Submissions |
Store |
Members</div>
</div>
After reading Codex, I’ve inserted <?php echo get_settings(‘home’); ?> for the home tab, and it works, but for the others I haven’t been able to find any information that will advise me on how to insert an individual category so that when I click on “articles� or "topics" or Submissions" in the primary navigation, the page will reload and display all associated category posts exclusively for that category and nothing else.
(I hope you understand my explanation).
I need to point out here that I don’t believe using the exclusion function in the category php code is the right way to go about this simply because as my site grows I will have to manually add the new categories that reside in my sidebar to the exclusion function code and that seems rather ridiculous to me.
Is there a specific is_function or get_function or some other function that I can insert between the navigational tags that will call only the category: Articles or Topics or Submissions, etc, etc whenever anyone clicks the primary navigation? At the moment I’m flying by the seat of my pants; I’ve inserted:
and that seems to work now, although yesterday it didn't work correctly. While the page reloaded under, I assume, articles, ALL POSTS displayed in the articles section even though I nominated specific category sections for each individual post. Silly, huh?
Anyway, it seems to work now. I tested the primary navigation today and now only relevant posts are showing under the selected category within the main navigational bar. So my question is: is this right? Have I inserted the right code within the tags? Is this standard practice for anyone designing a horizontal navigational menu?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks heaps.
PS: I have two other questions which I have submitted under different topics, so hopefully someone will take pity on me and reply :)
Kate
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