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Thank you Jessi.R.Davis. I didn’t know about that feature in WP. Didn’t know about the hierarchy setup in the menu creator. I just assumed that it would drop down the child pages as long as the parent page was listed on the menu.

Since I began this thread I switched to a different theme that I really like. It has lots of customization options, which is really cool. I think I like it the way it is now, without dropdown menus. It’s still great info to know and will come in handy in the future or on my other sites.

Thanks to everyone for the input. What a great community this is, where people are happy to help others. It’s something we could use more of in all areas of life.

EDIT:
After going back and looking into it a little more, I see this theme does support dropdown menus. The first time I tried it I used the wrong menu. Now the dropdown is setup and working perfect!

Again…thanks to everyone who contributed to this resolution. Special thanks to Jessi, who put it to me in terms that made sense. I learned something new today that will improve all of my website’s designs from here on and I’m grateful for that!

Sorry…you’re speaking gibberish to me….one thing that makes this so difficult is that I don’t know the first thing about code. I really need to learn soon.

How about if I switch back to the default menu. I really don’t mind using the default one except that it lists all the pages and I don’t really want the Terms or Privacy pages in the main menu.

Added:
Ok…I set the default menu. Now it’s working, you can see the child page under Tips & Info now drops down.

BTW…if I could get this figured out it would be great! I was having the same problem with the Twenty Eleven theme. I just don’t know how to make the custom menus drop down the child pages.

I didn’t do anything at all except create a new menu. When I set the created menu as the main menu it won’t drop down. If I select the blank box (no menu) as the main I get the dropdown.

I uninstalled the theme and reinstalled it and no change, I’m now using a child theme because I read that it’s better to modify on a child theme.

I can go back and set the original Twenty Twelve theme if that will help. Right now I have the child them I made activated. I also installed ‘Dropdown Menus’ plugin a few minutes ago in an attempt to get a dropdown. The plugin said to add ‘dropdown_menu()’ to the CSS, so I also did that.

This problem started before installing the plugin though, so I doubt it could be the culprit.

This is the site. It actually did just quit working, I see what happened though. The default menu works just fine but when I create a custom menu it doesn’t drop down.

There’s no option in the menu creator to set dropdown option.

Hmmm…wonder what I can do? As you can likely tell, I’m not very tech savvy when it comes to this sort of thing. I built my first site ever just a few months ago with absolutely no knowledge of WP or anything else.

I had this problem too. I just deleted it from the ‘Featured Image’. I used “Use as Featured Image’ and ‘Insert In Post’ on Twenty Eleven and didn’t have this problem but this new theme is different. Just insert into post and don’t bother with Featured Image.