Try deactivating all plugins. If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause.
Thanks for the idea. I deactivated all the plugins, and that did not solve the issue. I have reactivated all the plugins except for one–Distrify Embed–because it would not reactivate due to a fatal error. So I guess now I have two issues.
Dashboard indicates there are 8 updates available, including one for the Distrify Embed plugin. So that is my thought on what to try next unless anyone has a better idea.
Try going to Apperances>Menu and see what the primary menu is set to.
Try setting menus again. No data is being fetched from teh menu at present.
May be wordpress or a plugin auto-updated itself, which may cause issues to custom made sites.
I checked Appearances>Menu and it’s empty. It does have this message:
The current theme does not natively support menus, but you can use the “Custom Menu” widget to add any menus you create here to the theme’s sidebar.
I tried creating a custom menu and adding a few items to it, thinking I might be able to recreate the menu buttons from scratch, but nothing showed up on the page.
You would need to add custom menu into Appearances>widgets
I created a custom menu and then added it to the sidebar in Widgets, but I’m still not getting any navigation buttons to show up. The site is using the Twenty Ten theme, which as far as I know does allow custom menus.
you would have to edit theme file and register a siderbar in theme functions file.
codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar
I think at this point, as a casual user, this has gotten out of my comfort zone. The function file appears to already have similar register code, possibly from the preexisting menu bar that disappeared, but I don’t really know what I’m looking at.
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
register_sidebar(array(
'name' => __('Sidebar', 'SIT_theme'),
'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
'after_widget' => '</li>',
'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
'after_title' => '</h2>',
));
