dayley

Your comment is flawed.
If people chose the correct type of theme they require and followed the three steps I posted above then they wouldn’t need to navigate to WP.org to find out how to edit their site to a completely different look in the first place!

Like I stated before; Idea, Theme Shopping, Fine Tuning & Tweaking.

If you have an idea, and then choose ANY theme that is unsuitable, then yes… your going to find the need to go to WP.org to ask people how to completely alter the theme to suit your needs.

It is a VERY simple blog theme, which I’m 100% sure there are thousands of free blog themes that have a full width header image and a menu below. I’ve no doubt about that. Choosing any one of them ‘would have’ prevented this user from navigating here and asking this question, true??

I am not stating people should change the entire theme because of one little issue.
I am stating to choose the correct theme in the first place eliminating the need to amend.

Oh well In that case I am 31 and been programming In one language or another since I was around 13, and have a degree in Computer Games Development (C++) and have a background in Basic, Visual Basic, Dark Basic, Java, and C++. For web developing: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP.
😊

But as most people have very basic knowledge in web development it is often better to provide the easiest solution as you will already know.

If the theme code has been modified to accommodate a header image, I would have just recommended using a theme that already has a header image in place to be honest. There are a million and one themes out there to choose from, many for free!

Creating something that has already created

. It’s like building a cup from pot every time you are thirsty instead of grabbing a cup from the cupboard. But anyways, it would be great if we could have a reply from @askteetravel for confirmation if any of the solutions fixed the problem 😊

Your website link has an under-maintenance banner, so it impossible to view the code to find out what is happening.

But as a guess, you have one CSS code telling the menu to appear as it should, and another CSS code telling the menu to either do something that is forcing it to not display properly, or to not display at all.

Remove the maintenance banner and I will try to have a look for you.

I am guessing you already have a backup of your site when you downloaded from FTP.
So, I would suggest uploading/overwriting WordPress with a fresh copy. Simply go to http://www.wordpress.org, download WordPress latest version, and FTP the files straight into your domain folder and when prompt if you want to overwrite hit the yes button.

If I remember correctly, on most FTP clients this does not overwrite your existing plugins, themes, child-themes etc that are actually located within the folders you are overwriting.

For example, your current WordPress has a folder named wp-content (which contains your themes, child themes etc) and you will ovewrite this folder with the new WordPress wp-content folder. But this should not effect the theme and child-theme within.

Let me know how it goes after a clean WordPress 🙂

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by dayley.
• This reply was modified 8 years ago by dayley.

This is your WordPress Dashboard 🙂
There is actually a couple of nice things you could do here…

This goes into your child-themes functions.php and will add widgets into the landing page of the WordPress Dashboard, like when you first login as an admin:

add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'my_custom_dashboard_widgets');
  
function my_custom_dashboard_widgets() {
global $wp_meta_boxes;
 
wp_add_dashboard_widget('custom_help_widget', 'Wowzers! - This is great, right?', 'dayleys_custom_dashboard_widget');
}
 
function dayleys_custom_dashboard_widget() {
echo '<p>This is a nice little widget on my dashboard created by Dayley Senior</p>';
}

and for the actual menu items, you can create these like so inside your child-themes functions.php again:

function register_custom_menu_page() {
    add_menu_page('custom menu title', 'custom menu', 'add_users', 'custompage', '_custom_menu_page', null, 6); 
}
add_action('admin_menu', 'register_custom_menu_page');

function _custom_menu_page(){
   echo "Dayleys custom page!";  
}

Let me know how it goes.

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by dayley.
• This reply was modified 8 years ago by dayley.

^ This is true. Google does take some time to index the site amendments. Have you changed your Google My Business to reflect the changes also?

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by dayley.