New page doesn’t show menu

  • I have WordPress site that was put together by a pro years ago but he’s quit the biz.
    I’ve kept it updated and learned just enough to copy/past text and add images, but that’s about it.

    Getting ready to launch a promotion for the first time that should generate a bit of traffic and I’ve put together a ‘Buy Now’ page.

    It seems to be basically OK – except the menu doesn’t show – it’s ‘live’ on the website now.
    Here’s the site: https://garagebandtheory.com/

    The page is Buy Now:
    https://garagebandtheory.com/sample-page/buy-now-gbt-big-bundle-two-options-oct-14-2023/
    (btw – I don’t know how or why this url includes ‘sample page’ – should I care? It’s not in the part that’s editable)

    I’ve been searching and tried following the instructions I found a couple times but can’t seem to get the chore done – I assume that has a lot to do with my minuscule skills/comprehension.

    A couple pages I found said I need to assign a template, so I looked at “Page Attributes” in the right panel, it showed as “Landing” and then I tried every template there, no luck.
    “Parent” said ‘no parent’ and I tried a few in that list that looked like they referred to the pages that appear on the site, no luck, now it’s set at ‘Home’
    Order” said 9, I tried 2 & 3, no change.

    I’m sort of assuming (hoping) there’s a box somewhere I need to click on but haven’t been able to find it.

    Is there a page I haven’t found that explains this clearly?

    Any guidance will be greatly appreciated.
    DS

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Getting ready to launch a promotion for the first time that should generate a bit of traffic and I’ve put together a ‘Buy Now’ page.

    Consider this a blessing in disguise.

    On a sales or landing page, you want 100% of the users attention to be on the ONE action you want them to take — and not be distracted by anything else (including menu links!) that might delay or even stop them from taking the desired action.

    So it’s a common sales practice to NOT include a navigation menu on a sales/landing page.

    That’s why your theme was built with this special “landing” template which strips out the site navigation.

    If you really want to show your site’s navigation on this page, change the page template from the current “Landing” to “Default”. That should make the navigation menu appear since all the other pages that have the navigation menu use this “Default” page template.

    If you change the template but you still don’t see the menu, please leave the template at “Default” and report back so I can take a look to see what else may be going on.

    (btw – I don’t know how or why this url includes ‘sample page’ – should I care? It’s not in the part that’s editable)

    That’s because the “Buy Now” page is a child page of a parent page called “sample page”. It is this “Sample Page” that has been configured to be your site’s homepage.

    To remove this “sample-page/” from the URL, edit your “By Now” button and remove the parent-child relationship (set parent to “Main page (no parent)” in Quick Edit, or remove the parent under Page Attributes in the block editor) to promote this child page to a stand-alone parent page.

    Also, consider changing the permalink of this to just buy-now or something shorter than the current buy-now-gbt-big-bundle-two-options-oct-14-2023 — but that is purely your preference.

    Standing by for feedback.

    Thread Starter dukesharp

    (@dukesharp)

    Hi George – first, I want to apologize for the slow response, way too busy with other stuff for a few days.

    Thank you so much for the quick, clear and accurate response and your thoughts on the marketing aspect of the page. It would be difficult for someone to have less marketing experience than me. Very much appreciated.

    Pretty soon, I plan to be offering limited time free downloads to several relevant FB groups and friends and do plan to use the header-less page for that for sure.

    The main/only reason I’m thinking it should be included on the site is because it annoys me if I’m on a site and I can’t bounce around.

    I’ll be editing the url’s soon, and again, thank you! Someone else mentioned ‘hiding’ the url’s – is there any good reason to do that?

    Thanks again,

    DS



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