huethejackson

Thank you for helping me fix this. I’m sorry I forgot to log back on and tell you it’s resolved.

David Gere

hi govpatel,

Amazingly, I finally figured it out. First I had to go through all the pages and make sure the subpages were under the pages. I figured that most of the time, when I couldn’t make the grey rectangles go where I wanted them to, I had to go back and start over with a new menu, and do it in order. Trying to put in all the menu items at once, and then trying to rearrange them didn’t work. It drove me crazy.So I went from first to last and partially got it to work. The last problem I had to cure is it seemed like there’s a definite upper limit for the number of menu items you can use. So, I went back and cut some and condensed others so that it showed all the ones I decided were most important.

Anyway, thanks. The problem’s resolved.

Note: The name of my site is https://www.fantasyfictionforfunandmoney.com if that helps. (Should have probably told you that before).

Dave

Sorry. Not quite ready to consider it resolved yet.

New Problem: I created a Blog Central (where I left the body blank as it said to do in “Create Static Front Page”, and under the Reader setting it shows that both Home and Blog Central are static pages.

After that, I added a bunch of individual blog subjects under Blog Central using the “page hierarchy” setting where you can make pages sub-pages of other pages.

My new problem is, when I click on the tab “Blog Central” at the top of the home page, it doesn’t show any of these subordinate sites.

I was wondering if 1) You’re supposed to link blog topics that are subordinate to larger blog subjects using categories instead of links?

Also, I wondered if maybe I did something wrong when I edited my sidebar.php files to get rid of all references to Pages on the left-hand side.

Thanks in advance,

Dave

Wow, zoonini,

I figured it out myself. I just found the sidebar.php and experimented with cutting things. Not only was I successful in getting rid of the 2 Home pages on the wp_list_pages in the sidebar, I got rid of all the pages; including the title Pages on the sidebar.

I am excited. I didn’t know I’d ever be able to understand wordpress this well. You guys at the forum have saved my blog. I’m almost proud of myself for starting to pick this whole thing up.

Thank you so much,

Dave

Almost right. I did what you said, and it got rid of one of the tabs for the two homes in the list of pages at the top. I also was able to set home and my blog page to static pages.

The only problem I have left, is in my template it lists the pages on a navigation bar on the left-hand column, and it’s still showing 2 Homes there (under Pages).

Otherwise, this is awesome. I’ve been struggling with this problem for months, and if I hadn’t found this forum I probably would have never been able to fix this by myself.

Thanks, you’re awesome. ?? Dave

I’m sorry. Something didn’t load right, and the post above split in two.
It also didn’t show one of the two lines of HTML I need help with.

The two lines are

<li><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/">Home</a></li> 

and

<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&depth=1’); ?> </div>

Hopes this`works this time.

I’m sorry. I’m almost there. I found the wp_list_pages in the header.php file.

The relevant code in this file is as follows:

• /”>Home

<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&depth=1’); ?>

I”ve tried almost every combination of html changes to make, but I can’t find one that works. I’ve spent an hour and a half trying to figure this out. What happens is no matter what, after I edit this html, I still end up with a home page https://www.fantasyfictionforfunandmoney.com that won’t show in my list of pages. And it also won’t show on Settings-Read where I want to create the static front and blog pages. And everytime I create a new page, I get duplicates again in the home page, and the second one says https://www.fantasyfictionforfunandmoney.com/home

This can’t be this hard. Help for hopefully the last time?

Dave

Hi esmi,

I’m still having problems. Forgive me if I’m being so stupid about this.

But where do I find these three php files (header, footer and sidebar).
Are they parts of the CSS Stylesheet HTML or are they separate files in separate folders (eg. URL’s).

I found some navigation page references in the stylesheet, several with the navigation list term nav-li. There was also one just saying nav….
But I know stuff in a stylesheet is almost all formatting. It seems to me content would be in separate files.

I tried to find these separate files to look for what they referred to on the Create Static Front page document. But I couldn’t get anything to come up that works.

The name of the theme I’m using is “starocean”. I don’t know if that will help.

Hi esmi,

I think the problem is I have the problem with is a template. I found the following text on the page you sent me to, but need a little help figuring out what they are talking about:

Navigation Bars

Some themes have top navigation bar containing links to Pages. By default most themes set “Home” as a link to the home page – in this case the static front page. Since you have created a separate page with the title “Home”, there is a likelihood of another link text appearing as “Home”.

To change it, edit the appropriate template file featuring the code of the navigation bar with the template tag wp_list_pages. Set the parameters to change the link title. In some cases, commenting (disabling) the the line in the theme’s code that displays the ‘Home’ link will do the trick.

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I can’t find the template file to open to try this with. The theme I’m using is Star Ocean. I tried typing in /star/ocean after both the wp-admin/ (www.fantasyfictionforfunandmoney.com/wp-admin/star/ocean and and also https://www.fantasyfictionforfunandmoney.com/wp_list_pages and also https://www.fantasyfictionforfunandmondy.com/wp-admin/wp_list_pages.com. Still couldn’t find the pages to edit.

Also, even when I do find the page, I don’t understand the rest of the directions. What is a template tag? I feel like if I could find the page with the html I can do it.

The Creating Static Front Page page said not to use Custom templates for the blog page, but I’m not sure what a custom page is either: especially since when I started this blog I used the WordPress 10-10 template, and looking at that it says it’s a custom template: But that’s the WordPress default: makes no sense.

Thanks for bearing with me. (Also, my version is 3.05 for now. Don’t want to update until I get these problems fixed).

Dave