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vuthisa on "Make a static page my home page"

vuthisa — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:12:08 +0000

Thank you panaghiotisadam! I followed your steps and everything works 100% now. I did not even know about the Appearance>Menus option until today. Will use it in future. You guys are awesome.

panaghiotisadam on "Make a static page my home page"

panaghiotisadam — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:14:35 +0000

In case I wasn't clear, if you create a custom menu with the right items there will be no double highlighting.

And you don't need to copypaste anything: just turn your actual intro page into a parent page and trash its useless parent. Go to Settings>Reading and make sure your intro page is selected as your front page. Then go to Appearance>Menus, click the cross to create a menu, give it a name, click View All in the Pages module, select the pages, click Add to Menu; when they're added, drag them to change their order if necessary, click Save Menu; then select that menu from the pulldown in the Theme Locations module, click Save.

vuthisa on "Make a static page my home page"

vuthisa — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:44:19 +0000

Thanks panaghiotisadam. So if I copy all the contents of my child home page to my parent home page and delete the child page it will sort out my parent/child/private mess? I'll revert and let you know how it goes. Pity about the double highlighting.

panaghiotisadam on "Make a static page my home page"

panaghiotisadam — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:11:24 +0000

The double highlighting is a mistake in the theme, and the parent/child/private mess is your mistake. To correct the problem, forget all about child and private pages, and create a custom menu including only the items you need.

vuthisa on "Make a static page my home page"

vuthisa — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 06:50:27 +0000

Thanks airodyssey. The links you provided did not help. Changing the order or the parent page in Attributes does little to stop both my page titles on the header nav bar to be highlighted simultaneously. Click on http://vuthisa.com/posts/ and you'll see what I mean. I just wanted to know if it is a glitch with my specific theme or whether it can 'somehow' be fixed in Attributes or by doing it differently to the way I explained above.

airodyssey on "Make a static page my home page"

airodyssey — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:59:36 +0000

Hi. What exactly is your question? How to remove the duplicate tab on your blog? If that's the case, you can hide the page...
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/hide-pages/#hide-from-the-navigation-menu
...or use a custom menu
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

vuthisa on "Make a static page my home page"

vuthisa — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:03:33 +0000

I know there is a ton of information out there to make another static page your Home page and have the Blog posts appear as another page, and I've got my blog to function OK - thanks to this forum. But unfortunately when readers click the Blog Page on the navigation bar, the Home page and Blog page are both highlighted at the same time - which could be quite confusing for the reader! A bit of history on how I got my Home page to display the way it is: I created a static page to be my main page, and made a child page under it. I then needed to "make private" the parent page for the child page to appear. Perhaps it has something to do with my theme Greenery by iLemoned, but every time I want to edit my child page, I need to "Publish" the parent Home page, and of course return it to "Private" when I am done. If I don't do that my permalink address of the main page changes - gets a numerical number added to it, I got to no.5 when I finally figured this out. I have left it like that for a few months now, but perhaps there is a way to fix it.

Parent permalink: http://vuthisa.com/home-5/
Child permalink: http://vuthisa.com/
Home page: http://vuthisa.com/
Blog posts: http://vuthisa.com/posts/

Please help.

Thanks