Navigation Menu showing, but not linking from two pages of site

  • Hello,
    I am a total newbie to WP and reworking a previously set up site. I am editing and redesigning pages, but navigation does not work on two of the pages (previously existing pages).

    I can edit the nav in the header.php and it works fine on all but one main nav page (“our clients” and one sub-nav page “what you can expect.” The site uses the index page from the template two thousand twelve and does not use a ‘home’ page. I have backed up and reloaded all page template and css files, and the header.php file as well.

    I installed and checked the “child page navigation” widget with no luck since the navigation is from the header.php file?

    site url: https://www.pluspointconsulting.com/

    Please let me know what other information you might need to help.
    Thank you very much.

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  • Thread Starter DebGarrisJones

    (@debgarrisjones)

    As an update, here is the simple html code for the header.php file: I don’t see any mistakes, but while the main menu link of “our clients” works, the nav does not work once there. the sub menu page of “what you can expect” is the same issue.

    <nav>
        <ul class="nav">
		<li  class="test"><a href="https://www.pluspointconsulting.com/">Home</a>
			<ul class="navBlue">

<li><a href="https://www.pluspointconsulting.com/?p=302">Contact Us</a></li>
    		<li  class="test"><a href="https://www.pluspointconsulting.com/services-we-provide/">Services We Provide</a>

		<li  class="test"><a href="https://www.pluspointconsulting.com/why-clients-engage-us/">Why Clients Engage Us</a>
         		<ul class="lightgreen">

<li><a href="https://www.pluspointconsulting.com/?p=165">What You Can Expect</a></li>
		<li  class="test"><a href="https://www.pluspointconsulting.com/meet-our-team-2/">Meet Our Team</a>
            		<ul class="darkgreen">

<li><a href="https://www.pluspointconsulting.com/otw-portfolio/mike-temple/">Mike Temple</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pluspointconsulting.com/otw-portfolio/jill-lam/">Jill Lam</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pluspointconsulting.com/otw-portfolio/andrea-welke/">Andrea Welke</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pluspointconsulting.com/otw-portfolio/jake-szeto/">Jake Szeto</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pluspointconsulting.com/otw-portfolio/carol/">Carol Kaiser</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pluspointconsulting.com/otw-portfolio/neil-v-elder/">Neil Elder</a></li>
		<li  class="test"><a href="https://www.pluspointconsulting.com/our-clients/">Our Clients</a>

</nav>
    lisa

    (@contentiskey)

    are any custom menus in use for your website?

    Thread Starter DebGarrisJones

    (@debgarrisjones)

    Hello contentiskey,
    thanks for your reply.

    Yes, and I have custom page templates. I did find that the “yellow” page template (assigned to “our Clients”) has a shortcut id of 130 (same issue with other page not working) the actual page shortcut is 128. when i try to change the id number in the editor, it shows both areas of content…

    can i simply change the page id number somehow to match the php template file?

    deb

    lisa

    (@contentiskey)

    how many custom menus are set up in the APPEARANCES part of the dashboard?
    what items are in each custom menu?

    Thread Starter DebGarrisJones

    (@debgarrisjones)

    contentiskey:
    there are no custom menus set up in the APPEARANCES part of the dashboard. It seems to be fed by a php file called “custom header”

    Thread Starter DebGarrisJones

    (@debgarrisjones)

    here is a screen shot of how I tried to arrange the menu option under Appearances – however, the navigation does not seem to be fed from this area… when I make changes to that header.php – the changes do take effect. so the where the nav feeds from isn’t my issue. sorry i am not more helpful.

    deb

    It looks like someone modified the “header.php” script. You could try reinstalling that and then just building the custom menus. The Twenty Twelve Theme works fine with custom menus but you may have to edit the link anchor text in the menus interface.

    What you might want to do is rename the “twenty-twelve” theme directory to something like “twenty-twelve-mod” and then upload/download “Twenty Twelve” again, so you know you have an unmodified theme. That way you can learn the ropes before switching to the modified theme and making changes.

    lisa

    (@contentiskey)

    are you editing the parent theme files directly or using a child theme?

    Thread Starter DebGarrisJones

    (@debgarrisjones)

    contentiskey: I believe we are using a child theme (since it’s not the 2012 actual theme files).

    Thread Starter DebGarrisJones

    (@debgarrisjones)

    sffandom: I deleted the menu from the Appearances editor and it made no difference, it is a custom menu but I did check the php file for the anchor link text. is there another place the files might be pulling from?

    sorry to be such a bonehead about this, but I am really new to WP

    I would switch to the Twenty Twelve theme and try using that to set up the menu. Get the site working. Then you will have time to go back through the child theme files and see what they are actually doing.

    Thread Starter DebGarrisJones

    (@debgarrisjones)

    Sffandom,
    shoot. I am not knowledgable to know how to do that. is it at all possible for you to walk me through it?

    Under APPEARANCE select THEMES. Then find Twenty Twelve (the standard one, not the modified one). If you cannot tell the difference then you may just want to pick a whole new theme and do everything yourself, forgetting what has been done in the past.

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