Posted 3 years ago #
I see some wordpress sites where the menu bar at the top is a mix of links to pages within the site, as well as links to other sites (usually another wordpress instance).
How does one do this?
I assume this is how the menu at the top can include links to a second posting instance rather than a page?
I do that on several of my sites. Most often, the links under the header are created to display your pages and in your admin area, you usually have a way to exclude some pages you don't want to show.
On this site all the links except for the home link are to pages and are automatically added when I create a page...I can also exclude pages in the admin area.
I use the same theme here, but all the links, except for home are to other sites. I just hardcoded those into the theme following a similiar technique used for the home link (which is also hardcoded in).
So, just look at the theme code where the menu bar is located (probably the header file) and add any external links you want.
There may be a theme that allows you to do this as well, but if so, I'm just not aware of it.
Posted 3 years ago #
There is also a nice little plugin called page links to at http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/page-links-to/ which allows you to define a page so that it appears in the nav bar, but instead of going to a wordpress "page" it just goes to another url or a wordpress page if you have the url.
Posted 3 years ago #
figaro,
I have figured alot of stuff out on my wordpress site. I am trying to use it more as a web site than a blog. I have installed a template that allows the menu bar. I cannot figure out how to do drop downs on my bar. For example I have a heading Pet Health under which I have two companies and articles that I want to have pop up when one clicks on Pet Health. How do I make that happen? Also--I have lost the script intorducing visitors to my site. I somehow installed th script on my Home menu but cannot figure out how to reinstall.
From the Novice! Thanks
Doing the drop-down menus is going to be tough if that functionality is not already coded in the theme you are using. Your best bet is to find a theme that already has that feature and disect it to see how to incorporate it into your theme.
It sounds like you are using a custom theme, so if you have lost a script that came with the theme, the best thing to do is download the theme again.
Posted 3 years ago #
I wonder if I am being overly complicated in what I want to do.
Let me test another design direction: is there a way to have my front page only display posts with category 'A', and have a second page that only displays posts from category 'B'?
I am trying to get one page of my posts, and another sepearte page accessible from the menu bar that only includes various book reviews I am doing.
Ed
Maybe just file your book reviews in a category called "Book Reviews" and then click on that category to get url to it......then just link to that url in your menu bar.
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