Title: CODE page changes my coding tags
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# CODE page changes my coding tags

 *  [Sjeng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjeng/)
 * (@sjeng)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-page-changes-my-coding-tags/)
 * Hello,
 * I just set up my first WP page, and I’m currently trying to get it to look the
   way I want it to.
    This is proving to be more challenging than I thought. Some
   questions, I’d much appreciate any or all answers I can get:
 * 1) When I make pages using the CODE tab, I use tags like <p> and <br>. When I
   save, they keep disappearing. This makes coding very annoying, and I wonder if
   I can add tables or more complicated code…
    2) I’ve got a movie page where I 
   wanted to show my YouTube movies, but that doesn’t seem to work. See [http://www.raymondhaaken.nl/movies/](http://www.raymondhaaken.nl/movies/)
   What am I doing wrong? Another code issue? 3) I’d like to have a “home” link 
   on the right, above all the other links to my various pages. 4) I want to make
   a top banner with clickable buttons (with a mouseover design). I know how to 
   make such a banner, but how can I make it into a theme that has all that code
   and images in the top banner space? I’d like to make 4 different theme’s, so 
   I can switch them each season. Example of a page I made with mouseover buttons:
   [http://sjeng.onedot.nl/RIP/](http://sjeng.onedot.nl/RIP/) I was thinking of 
   creating such buttons in a straight row, over a nice top banner image, and have
   them link to my pages…
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-page-changes-my-coding-tags/#post-561004)
 * 1) Turn off the wysiwyg editor for code – use the basic editor.
 * 2) Same thing – use basic editor for youtube code or use a plugin:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Video](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Video)
   Viper’s plugin seems to be the one of choice.
 * 3) Put one in your sidebar?
 * 4) Many themes already do this or similar – it just takes the correct code in
   header.php of your theme and possible styling in style.css.
    Example code:
 *     ```
       <div id="menu">
       		<ul>
       			<li><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/">Home</a></li>
       			<?php wp_list_pages('exclude=2,8,9,10,11,13,15&depth=1&sort_column=menu_order&title_li='); ?>
       		</ul>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * This is a basic tabbed menu at the bottom of the header. It creates a “home” 
   tab and automatically tabs pages you create. The “exclude” excludes pages you
   don’t want in your header menu.
 * Hope this helps.
 *  Thread Starter [Sjeng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjeng/)
 * (@sjeng)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-page-changes-my-coding-tags/#post-561288)
 * 1 and 2 helped thanks,
 * 3) how do I do that? can’t seem to find the option to add or remove links in 
   my sidebar (I’m a total WordPress noob)
 * 4) I’ve posted some more details on this in the following topic:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/117282?replies=1](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/117282?replies=1)
 * Can you show me what I should code? Copy/paste is about all I can manage when
   it comes to .php coding I’m afraid…

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 * Last reply from: [Sjeng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjeng/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-page-changes-my-coding-tags/#post-561288)
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