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Little update:

On the Site Stats page, I can click on “views today” and get to the usual detailed view.
Clicking on a single day in the “mini view” or on the graph still gives me the 404 error.

Here is the difference:

Clicking on “views today” gets me to a …/wp-admin/admin.php?page=stats&… url
Clicking on a bar in the graphic gets me to a …/my-stats/?… url (and the 404 error)

The “…” part is the same again in both urls

So there still is a way to view the details. But I’m still not sure why the usual way no longer works.

Why don’t we leave the definition of what are appropriate questions to the moderators?
And why don’t we leave petty arguments out altogether?
I’ve your feelings are hurt because I don’t deem your answer or your manner of answering helpful, sorry.
But I rather react to an answer by saying it didn’t help me, indicating that I’m still in need of help, than not answer and therefore make someone who might be able to help think that no additional tips are required.

As much as I appreciate the spirit of trying to help, I’m looking for actual help, not vague soundbites.

So if someone sees where I’m going wrong or where I’m missing something by looking through the two code batches above, please let me know what to put into the template file (and preferably where).

If you need additional info, let me know.

The build I’m working on is still local on my computer. The blog is currently running with a different page setup and a different theme. Sorry, could have mentioned that in the initial post.

But any additional info you need I’ll be happy to provide as far as I can.

New development:

I have switched to the “Nest” theme, which natively supports one navigation menu location.

In the header.php, I have added the following code

<?php if( is_page(array('9,11,13,15')) ) wp_nav_menu( 'a');
else wp_nav_menu('b'); ?>

With “a” and “b” representing the two menus I have defined in the Appearance > Menu area of the WP backend.

This has the effect, that menu A is displayed instead of the default menu of all pages. So partial success.
BUT menu A is now displayed on all pages, not just just those with the page IDs I have defined.

Custom menu was my first thought. They are convenient to set up and maintain.

But honestly, I’m not opposed to a different solution.

Or maybe someone can point out where my mistake is in my current approach.

Step 1, I need to register one of the two menus I want to use (no need to register both, since I can use the already registered default (called “Below Title”) as the second menu, correct?).

So in the functions.php, what looked like this:

register menus
*/
add_action( 'init', 'register_my_menus' );

function register_my_menus() {
	if ( function_exists('register_nav_menus') ) {
		register_nav_menus( array('primary-menu' => 'Above Title','secondary-menu' => 'Below Title',) );
	}
}

Should become

register menus
*/
add_action( 'init', 'register_my_menus' );

function register_my_menus() {
	if ( function_exists('register_nav_menus') ) {
		register_nav_menus( array('primary-menu' => 'Above Title','secondary-menu' => 'Below Title', 'Custom' => 'custom', ) );
	}
}

Then in the page.php, I add this:

<?php if( is_page(array(9,11,13,15)) ) get_sidebar( 'custom');
else get_sidebar(); ?>

With 9,11,13,15 (and potentially more) being the page IDs of the pages I want this custom menu to replace the default menu (the secondary menu/below title).

And then I need a new php that defines the custom menu to be located where the secondary menu is? Yes? No? If so, what needs to be in there?

Two things.

1. Sidebar for a menu in the header? Is that the right approach?

2. I appreciate the suggestion, any suggestion, but this is extremely vague. At least for my limited coding experience. It’s like I am at point A and need to get to F, and you suggest E, which would lead to F, but leave out step B, C and D.