Categories menu

Thanks for using Tracks!

This can be accomplished with custom menus. If you head over to the Menus page (found under Appearance), you’ll be able to create your own custom menu. On the left-hand side you can select Pages, Links, or Categories to add to your menu.

After you’ve created your menu with the list of categories, you can assign its location to either the Primary, Secondary, or Footer location (screenshot) by clicking on the Manage Locations tab at the top.

In the Tracks live demo, we have a few pages in the Primary menu (top-right), and categories in the Secondary menu (top-left).

Ben,
Along these lines, I have a primary menu of categories (and I’ve tried it using the secondary menu as well), but when I click on one, the post of all those categories appears, but the menu (Primary, Secondary and Footer) all disappear. How do I get them to stay?

Hmm that’s quite odd, but I think I have a fix for it. If you download and activate this child theme, it should fix the disappearing menus.

To activate the child theme:

1. Visit your site’s dashboard
2. Go to the Appearance menu
3. Click on the “Add New” button at the top of the page
4. Click on the “Upload Theme” button at the top of the page
5. Click on the “Choose File” button
6. Select the tracks-child.zip file you downloaded from the link above
7. Click the blue “activate” link

The child theme may unset your menu locations when activated. If this happens, you just need to visit the Manage Locations tab in the Menus page, and reselect their locations.

Please let me know how if the child theme works for you, thanks!

And once again, bingo-kabingo, you are a genius. Worked like a charm. Thanks Ben!!!
onlythejodi.com

Oops. Spoke too soon. Oddest thing.

Home page: testing with a menu in all three locations.
Previously, all three menus disappeared when I chose a category – so I’d have all those posts, and no menus until I actually went into one of the posts.

Using your child menu solution –
Home page: testing with a menu in all three locations again
Chose a category, and the primary menu stays, but the secondary and footer disappear until I’m actually in a post.
-See here: Primary menu stays, butNo secondary, no footer: https://onlythejodi.com/category/2-photography/
– And here: They’re back: https://onlythejodi.com/2013/06/pray/

Any idea why this is happening?

Jodi,

Okay I see what’s happening. Here is a new child theme that will fix the issue completely.

In the new child theme, I’ve repeated the solution that worked for the primary menu on all three menus. If you switch back to Tracks, you’ll be able to delete the Tracks Child theme in your Appearance menu. Then, you can upload & activate the new one linked above.

Hi. New to the Tracks theme. Using a category in Main menu along with a few pages. I have two articles with this category, but when I click on the Menu it displays the category name in the upper left corner and then my footer info. It does not list the two posts. Thoughts? Thanks. Teresa

https://www.teresakruszewski.nyc/category/park-avenue/

Hi Teresa,

Could you try visiting the Permalinks menu in your dashboard (Settings > Permalinks), and clicking the save button?

This will rewrite the .htaccess file and often fixes 404 and missing post issues like this.

Ben, Tried it a few ways. Changing the button choice and then back. Still doing the same thing. Thanks!

Okay thanks for trying that. Can you try switching to another theme temporarily, and check if the posts then display in the category archive?

Ben, I tried a live preview on a few. Didn’t work. This was working when I had one post for the category. When I added a second it started doing this. No rush, but would like to resolve. Thanks!
Teresa

Teresa,

Okay this may take a few steps to resolve, but we will find a solution ??

We can now rule out the theme and the .htaccess file, so we are much closer to finding the source of this bug. Is there anything that you did between publishing the first and second post? New plugins, new categories, etc?

It would be worth a shot to temporarily deactivate all plugins and check if this corrects the issue.

Ben-
You are brilliant. I had installed the plug in Article Forge. When i deactivated, all seems right with the world. Thank you! Teresa