Can WP Pages exist Untethered to Menu Bar?

  • Resolved mtp1032

    (@mtp1032)


    12 years, 6 months ago

    What I am trying to achieve is to be able to create a page that can only be read by clicking on a link in a blog post.

    As far as I can tell (which isn’t very far, actually) this is not possible, but I would appreciate confirmation. AFAIK, one can not create a page that (1) Does not have a parent or, in the absence of a parent, is (2) not displayed on the menu page. Put another way, my understanding is that all must either (1) have a parent page or be a top-level page in which case (2) it will be displayed on the menu bar.

    Is this true?

    Thanks, in advance,

    Michael

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  • Under Appearance -> Menus, do you have “automatically add new top-level pages” checked? If so, this will automatically add any top-level pages that are created. If you can’t see anything interesting, create a menu with only the links you want, add the pages you want to that menu, and then hook the menu into your header. This way, you can create a top-level page and not have it show up in the menu.

    If your theme doesn’t have support for menus, just post here and I’ll give you the code to add to your theme and then you can do the above steps.

    Thread Starter mtp1032

    (@mtp1032)

    Thanks you so much.

    My theme supports menus and I’ve created a test menu that does not have the “automatically add…” checked.

    So, per your instructions, I’ve created a menu and added some links to it. So, now my question is this: what do you mean by “hook the menu into your header”?

    Again, thanks so much. This question has been on my mind for quite some time.

    Cheers,

    Michael

    To the left of where you created your menu, there should be a dropdown box in a box called Theme Locations. If there’s only one dropdown, use that; if there’s more than one, use the one that says header menu (or if not, make an educated guess, you can change it later easily). Just select the name of the menu you just created, hit save, and that should be it.

    Thread Starter mtp1032

    (@mtp1032)

    Thank you for your prompt and good advice.

    Topic is now closed.

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