Hi @wetken – when I try those links I get 404 errors for all of them. Is it possible the pages are private, or drafts?
That would mean they only display on desktop (on the device you’re logged in) but for other devices where you aren’t (like testing mobile devices) they are not available.
Thank you for your reply. The pages are indeed hidden; this is because there are many pages and none of the other options for excluding pages from the menu work (Appearance -> Menu -> Remove is not available, Numbered pages is a technique no longer used, ‘exclude pages from menu’ plugin is installed but has no effect here). At the moment the site is open to the public, no login is required. I would rather not enforce login to see other than the top-level menu pages. I’m a capable technician but used to Joomla not WordPress; if you can point me at what needs to be fixed I might be able to fix this myself.
Ah. ‘Detatch Navigation’ then allows pages to be removed from the menu. No idea how to put them back, but that’s not an immediate issue.
Now I have all my pages working but I have a different problem with the template editor. I chose ‘Appearance -> editor’ and scrolled to the bottom of the page and clicked in the footer area and deleted the ‘history’ element from the left menu and saved it. An info box appeared telling me a new menu had been created, but this new menu replaced the menu in the page header! The only option then seems to be to re-create the menu in the header section choosing the page list and then laboriously exclude again the pages I don’t want in the menu. Also, I now have four entries in the ‘Navigation’ section but no apparent way to choose which is shown at the head of the page.
Hey @wetken,
Ah. ‘Detatch Navigation’ then allows pages to be removed from the menu. No idea how to put them back, but that’s not an immediate issue.
Once you ‘detach navigation’ you’ll be handling management of the menu manually – so you can add and remove items as you wish, independent of the list of pages in the site.
It also sounds like there is a little bit of confusion about the two Navigation blocks in the site. What you’ll be able to do is select which ‘Menu’ is used in each Navigation Block separately – following these instructions:
https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/navigation-block/#selecting-an-existing-menu
Could you please give that a try and see how it goes?
