http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customizing-the-columnist WordPress.com Forums » Topic: customizing The Columnist en Tue, 21 May 2013 18:56:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customizing-the-columnist#post-1095308 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:24:34 +0000 littlenutthings 1095308@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ eureka! I got myself in a bad loop and something in your different statements on same solution finally clicked and got me out. Maybe I really am nuts. In any case, deeply grateful and glad to part of such group. Once I know more what I'm doing, I hope to contribute.

]]> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customizing-the-columnist#post-1095271 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:36:05 +0000 justpi 1095271@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Assuming you want your menu to display the Home link, links to your static pages, and the link to the website:
1) You click the plus sign to add a menu, give it a name (say, "My Top Menu"), click Create Menu.
2) You select the Home item and the pages in the Pages module, click Add to Menu.
3) You paste the URL of the website in the Custom Links module, write its name in the Label field (below the URL field), click Add to Menu.
4) You click Save Menu, then you select the menu from the pulldown in the Theme Locations module and click Save.

]]> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customizing-the-columnist#post-1095085 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:31:32 +0000 littlenutthings 1095085@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ massive thanks for your patience -- I'm sensing a break through. All along, I've been doing as described in your reply, with same result; either I can have a menu title with a link to my website, or multiple menu titles for pages. I'm thinking, either I'm doing something wrong that I haven't identified; or second section of your part B applies - "why custom menus" ... * Display other links in addition...

]]> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customizing-the-columnist#post-1094658 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:32:10 +0000 justpi 1094658@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ See section C of my post, in particular point 2b.

]]> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customizing-the-columnist#post-1094539 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:39:37 +0000 littlenutthings 1094539@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I don't know what I'm missing, but still not getting it. So in your post from last year, in the first screenshot, suppose you wanted"How I learned to stop worrying and love the blog" to link to a website. Is that do-able in free version of The Columnist if you have other menu items? I think I'm asking if a menu item can link to an outside site.

]]> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customizing-the-columnist#post-1094511 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:12:13 +0000 littlenutthings 1094511@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ hadn't thought of it like that, but see your point. 'preciate link to your in depth post, justpi, I'll give it a shot; made me smile that it addresses "inexperienced users".

]]> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customizing-the-columnist#post-1094492 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:52:30 +0000 timethief 1094492@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm with justpi. Linking your blog URL to direct to any other site is a deceptive linking practice.

]]> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customizing-the-columnist#post-1094472 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:34:02 +0000 justpi 1094472@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ In theory you would be able to crate a new link in front of the header image if you had the Custom Design upgrade. But as I already pointed out, the header image is supposed to link to the blog front: making it link to an external site is annoying and almost amounts to deception.
The right way to do what your looking for is a link in a custom top menu. For details see this post of mine:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

]]> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customizing-the-columnist#post-1094439 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:02:29 +0000 littlenutthings 1094439@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ good question ... I should have explained better... I'd like to link from my blog to my website somehow. So far, in the free version of The Columnist, I can either have menu items or a hyperlink. I was wondering if I upgraded to custom, could I add link to the picture header image. There's a "home" button that also goes back to the blog front.

]]> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customizing-the-columnist#post-1093875 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:27:12 +0000 justpi 1093875@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Why would you want to do that? The header image is already a link back to the blog front. That's what the header image is expected to link to.

]]> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customizing-the-columnist#post-1093765 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:44:58 +0000 littlenutthings 1093765@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Does anyone know, can I add a hyperlink to header picture in The Columnist if I upgrade to customized? There's lots for me to like in this theme.
Thanks, Monda

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