wen.wainwright

Well, in the meantime I’m moving all of the entry meta back up to under the title since that is better than nothing under it at all. I still want to change the entry meta so that the date appears under the title and the rest below the content of the post. Thanks!

Thanks! I remember reading that but it fell out of my head in all the panic.

For anyone else that comes along when you do what Clayton said, you don’t need to actually DO anything on that page other than just scroll to the bottom and click on “save changes.”

Thanks! I figured it out and meant to come back and mark it resolved. I always use a child theme. A backed up one at that!

I’m not sure which theme you are using which makes helping you difficult. In general menus can be created in Appearances -> Menus by clicking and dragging different pages, links, and categories to a vertical menu list. So you can put the first item in and then a sub item beneath, if you pull it slightly to the right as you drag it then it becomes the first sub item. You can add another sub item under that one by pulling it a bit further to the right. I’m not sure if this will help you since I’m not sure how you created your menu in the first place.

O.K. the code above from WPYogi does get rid of the page titles on all the other pages where I will put my first page of portfolio content – so it takes care of the page title problem and changing “Blog” to a custom link brings you to the front page that shows the latest posts without the word “Blog” being at the top.

SOLUTION! What I wanted to do was create a blog/portfolio site. I wanted the first page/landing page to show “latest posts.” Next on the menu was “Sketchbook” which is a category. The rest of the menu items were pages to which I would add sub-pages to show my portfolio. The problem is that when you clicked on the page “Blog” in the menu the title of that page “Blog” would show up at the top of the latest posts…so I tried a lot of CSS to get it out of there. In the end what worked was going into Appearances -> Menu and under Links I added my website url and for link text I put “blog.” I added that to the menu (primary) and made it the first item. Then in Settings -> Reading I set the “front page displays – your latest posts”. So when you click on the first menu item, “Blog,” it takes you to the home of the website since that is the url of that link which shows the latest posts. I’m not sure this is the best solution but it works and I need to move on for now. You can look at the site here if you are coming across similar problems.

I followed those directions. Nothing broke. But the sidebar didn’t appear in the Appearance -> Widgets…? Any suggestions as to where I should look first to fix it now?

In my functions.php:

<?php if ( function_exists ('register_sidebar')) {
    register_sidebar ('head');
} ?>

In my sidebar-head.php:

<?php
/**
 * The sidebar containing the head widget area
 *
 * Displays on posts and pages.
 *
 * If no active widgets are in this sidebar, hide it completely.
 *
 */

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'sidebar-head' ) ) : ?>
	<div id="tertiary" class="sidebar-container" role="complementary">
		<div class="sidebar-inner">
			<div class="widget-area">
				<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-head' ); ?>
			</div><!-- .widget-area -->
		</div><!-- .sidebar-inner -->
	</div><!-- #tertiary -->
<?php endif; ?>

And in the header.php just below:

<header id="masthead" class="site-header" role="banner">

<?php get_sidebar ('head'); ?>

Hmm. Not sure I’ve come across that tutorial specifically. I did think that, from what I did read, it seemed like there should be something that sounded more up to date. I’ll go try it.

O.K. Yay! That restored the post titles and got rid of the page titles. However I am trying to make the page titled “blog,” be the page that you first arrive on and that displays the posts. If you click on “blog” – after just arriving to the site or clicking in the header – the posts are there, but without titles…is there a way to make the page “blog” be the page you are on when you arrive at the site, be in bold like the other current page pages, and the posts have titles? Or am I going around in the wrong circle entirely?

Well, yes, I’m still trying while I wait for hope. If I use this code which I found on this forum in a similar but just not quite the same post:

.entry-header {
display: none;
}

The page titles disappear but so do the post titles.

It’ll have to wait for now. I think everything I’ve ever known has now fallen out of my head. I’ll hang onto this though because I do want to get back to it later. Thanks so much for clarifying the first part as well, that definitely was a nice leap forward.

I know, super basic things, but without looking at your dashboard…have to try to narrow it down.

So the obvious would be to:

1. Under Posts –> Categories – add that category “Race Day”
2. Under Appearance –> Menus – click on the “category” drop down menu and check the box next to “Race Day.” It might only appear under “view all” since the default category selection options doesn’t show all of them.
3. It should then appear on the bottom of the menu to the right as a bar, one of many horizontal bars stacked. Make sure it’s in the order you want it to be in relative to the others and that it’s aligned to the left hand side – in other words make sure you haven’t created a sub-category.
4. Click the box that says “navigation menu” at the bottom of that column and then save that menu.

If that doesn’t work let me know.

It’s probably a combination of either:

1. Possibly/probably something in your style.css. I would copy your child theme style.css into a text editor and save it. Then I would delete the child theme content except the heading. Then add the styles back in one at a time to find the styles that are pushing the content down.

2. I would also suggest giving .rh a max-width that matches the right side. The current width of rh { width: 694px; } which means that even though the ad looks like it’s only taking up the right hand side space it is actually taking up the left hand empty space and pushing your left sidebar down below it.

.rh {
max-width: whatever your right hand side content is;
}

you might also need:

.rh {
max-height: something not too tall;
}

The other thing I would double check would be the <div> each of those elements are in and make sure that they are in the correct order/place/etc. for how you wish to display the content.

Can you post a link to the site?

Alright, I took out that get_sidebar and it does get rid of the right hand sidebar, yay! I just made a custom page and took that one call out. It doesn’t solve the header image issue, but it’s a start.