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susanjcunningham on "Visible, yet unvisible page!"

susanjcunningham — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 06:04:57 +0000

OK, Thanks! This is one essential bit I was missing:

"click Screen Options to make the Theme Locations module show up, select the blank option from the pulldowns in that module, save."

I hadn't clicked "Theme Locations."

The other issue--in case some frustrated person is reading this in the future--is that in the appearances dashboard, I had/have two menu clusters. When I was attempting to add the page to a custom menu, I was saving the wrong menu. I think.

susanjcunningham on "Visible, yet unvisible page!"

susanjcunningham — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 06:04:57 +0000

OK, Thanks! This is one essential bit I was missing:

"click Screen Options to make the Theme Locations module show up, select the blank option from the pulldowns in that module, save."

I hadn't clicked "Theme Locations."

justpi on "Visible, yet unvisible page!"

justpi — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:21:21 +0000

Sorry, but my post includes all there is to know about menus. Quoting:
• "Custom menus are created (and edited) in Appearance > Menus. Preliminary step: Click Screen Options (top right) and make sure Theme Locations, Custom Links [etc] are checked."
• "The regular top menu of a theme automatically displays links to all your published parent pages [etc]."
• "Revert to regular top menu: Select the blank option from the Theme Locations pulldown, click Save."

So, since you only want to display links to your static page(s), you don't need a custom menu: you only need to make sure the theme displays its regular top menu. You go to Appearance > Menus, click Screen Options to make the Theme Locations module show up, select the blank option from the pulldowns in that module, save.

timethief on "Visible, yet unvisible page!"

timethief — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:08:34 +0000

How the heck do you make a tab on the top leading to a static page visible?

Create a New Page > Dashboard > Pages > All Pages > Add New
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page

Create a custom menu > Dashboard > Appearance > Menus
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-a-custom-menu

Add the Page(s) you created to your custom menu > http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-pages

Troubleshooting – My menu isn’t appearing
Go to the custom menu page in the dashboard Appearance > Menus and in the “Theme "Location” module at upper left select your custom menu from the pulldown and then click “save”.

susanjcunningham on "Visible, yet unvisible page!"

susanjcunningham — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:35:05 +0000

PS I also tried doing this through the themes area under appearances.

Elsewhere on this forum in regard to tabs, there is some mention of a "Pulldown" menu or something similar in the "themes location" area. I don't have that. Maybe it doesn't exist with the Beach theme.

susanjcunningham on "Visible, yet unvisible page!"

susanjcunningham — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:30:07 +0000

You want to make a page invisible?!

How the heck do you make a tab on the top leading to a static page visible? Or maybe the beach theme only allows one tab?

I want to add a "contact" tab on the bar at top of the post area. God knows how I got the "Home"" tab up there. Anyway, I created a static contact me page (actually, several of them). I tried it as a widget and a custom menu. I checked that I wanted custom menu to appear as a tab and tried to add the static contact page to it.

No success: http://susanjcunningham.com/

I tried to follow everything on that wbptips link above.

The contact page exists but there's no way any viewer would realize that.

gunsnwar on "Visible, yet unvisible page!"

gunsnwar — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:47:27 +0000

It took an hour to do what I wanted, but now it's ready! Thank you a lot for the information! (Turns out I had to make two custom menus)

justpi on "Visible, yet unvisible page!"

justpi — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:55:37 +0000

By creating a custom top menu. Details here:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

gunsnwar on "Visible, yet unvisible page!"

gunsnwar — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:48:49 +0000

Well...turns out that there is still a problem.
I made a widget (I deleted it now) and I used the custom menu which I made. There was a link there which successfully sent anyone to the page that was included in the custom menu.
However, no matter what I did, that very same page was visible at the bar at the top of my blog. How I am supposed to remove it, yet allow anyone to access it through the custom menu that I made?

gunsnwar on "Visible, yet unvisible page!"

gunsnwar — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:20:41 +0000

Ok, thank you!

raincoaster on "Visible, yet unvisible page!"

raincoaster — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:10:28 +0000

Yes, but you have to use a Custom Menu and leave that page off the listing.

gunsnwar on "Visible, yet unvisible page!"

gunsnwar — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:07:05 +0000

*invisible (horrible typo)

gunsnwar on "Visible, yet unvisible page!"

gunsnwar — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:06:22 +0000

Is it possible to make a page which is not visible on the bar at the top of the blog, yet it can accessed by anyone if they are type the URL of that page? Can I do it by using the custom menu widget?