DinghyBlonde

I got it! Half the battle getting answers is knowing what to ask for ; )

This tutorial and going back to the codex did the trick! Hope this helps the next noobie coming along behind me.

https://blog.teamtreehouse.com/wordpress-loop-beginners-guide

Removing the menu is easy. The proper way to do it is more difficult but better in the long run and something worth learning now so you can have the control you want later.

Create a child theme. -Lots of information and tutorials on the web.
Copy your header.php file into your child theme folder.
Find the menu <nav> code and either delete or comment it out <!– –>
Save and open your site. It will be gone.

In a child theme, copy header.php and find the address code. If you are unfamiliar
with html, just look at how they are displaying the address and add your own tag and
content:

<div id=”(some name here)>
<(tag)>Your Company Name</(tag)>
<(tag)>Your Address</(tag)>
<(tag)>Your Phone Number</(tag)>*copy the address tag and put in your number
</div>

***tag names in ( ) are not the tag names you will find in your code. Use the tag name in your code.

You may have to adjust the css but this should get you started.

Hi Colleen:
I didn’t end up doing anything. I took this to my WP meet up group and their response was too technical. I was also contacted by Wordfence directly who suggested I take it to
my host. Since I am in the process of building a new site and there isn’t much data, I will
just reload the whole thing on a new installation of WP when I’m finished. Not the best
answer sorry. In the meantime, nothing has gone wrong with the site so maybe it has
been handled in the updates. I just keep looking for information about it so that I can
be confident enough to deal with it if it happens again. Post here if you find anything useful.

In a child theme, copy the header.php file and either remove the <div> that is
holding the space for the slider or comment it out <!– (whatever you want ignored) –> You don’t have to put anything in the space.

Clarify what you are trying to do.

I understand it that you want the pages to show in your menu bar. Is that what you mean by “pages to appear one after the other”? If that is right, you have to create each page you want individually through the dashboard “pages” panel. Create new page, put the title you want to appear in the menu and “publish”.

Once you have created those pages individually, go to the “menu” tab and you will see the page names you just created in a list with check boxes. Check the ones you want
in your menu and click the “add to menu” button.

They will appear in a list on the right side. Now you can drag them into the order you want.

Name your menu (top of list box) and save. These “pages” will now appear in a
menu on your site.

Hope that helps.

If you are using a child them you can copy the header.php file and functions.php file from your parent theme and make the changes recommended in this link. You just move the code in the header to the location you want the second menu in your child header.php file.

I put the copy of the parent theme’s function.php on my desktop so that I can locate the code I need and only place the changes I want in the function.php file in my child theme. You will find the code in the parent theme that “registers” the main navigation menu and duplicate it adding your name for the secondary menu.

Once you have done those two things, your new menu should show up in your dashboard menu options and you will be able to add pages to it.

This is a great tutorial with code showing you exactly what to change in your child theme.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10635880/how-to-insert-a-second-menu-into-a-wordpress-template

Contact form 7 is very basic and I’ve never had any issues with it. It seems well supported.

In a child theme you can copy the file where the graphic is (header.php, footer.php) and remove the code from the copied file.

If you are building with a child theme, you can copy the file where the social bar is (header.php, footer.php) into your child theme and either remove the social bar code or comment it out. Try that and if you don’t get the result you want it hasn’t hurt your theme.

In edit page mode in the upper right side of the page you should see an “option” tab. Open it and look for comments/discussion boxes that you can uncheck and it should remove the comment box. Hope that helps.

Thanks esmi

Can you please elaborate. I am new. I don’t know how to look for a hack and the main things I would like to understand are:
1) Should my core files ever change without me getting in them? Is this part of an update or hack? And, it is more in depth, but I’d like to know what altering this file with 3 characters means.
2) And most importantly, I have Word Fence offering to revert it and on a technical level, without knowing what it is or what it can potentially do, I’d really like a technical opinion of what it will do if I revert. I am not comfortable enough to replace a fresh set of core files but I will revert to the original file once I know what I am dealing with.
If this is too in-depth for this forum please direct me to where I should post for more information on understanding what has happened here so that I might be able to recognize a hack in the future.
I do appreciate all your time and your assistance.

Hi Jason:

I have seen a demo for Gravity Forms and it might be able to do what you need. I use contact form 7 which is free and very simple. You might want to check out these plugin on www.remarpro.com plug in page.

Hope that gives you some options.

DB

Hi cse89:

I found a lot of great help in youtube videos to get me started on my first site. Type in the Google Search bar: wp “theme name you are using here” home page. You could try searching for “static home page” and “menus”. If you search under your theme name, you’ll find videos that walk you through an entire site build. I watched several until I found people who could explain things in a way I could easily understand. If you see it done from beginning to end it will make more sense when you start your site. Hope that helps.

DB

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