Problem with Motion Theme

  • fellertr · Member ·

    Here’s my issue… I currently have multiple blogs and decided to combine them all into one big blog and use Motion as the theme and separate the blogs into categories, so I have the categories showing up in motion so readers can select which one they want to read. However, one of my categories has three sub categories, and each of those categories has about 10 sub categories (I write a weekly devotional for church, so the sub categories are volume number of the newsletter followed by the month of publication). However, in Motion it does not correctly show the sub-categories – it only shows some (but not all) of them. I played around with using Titan and it shows the sub-categories correctly, but I like Motion as a theme better – if I can get it to work. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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  • timethief · Member ·

    Please read this post on the Motion theme as I believe it’s useful > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/custom-header-image-in-motion/

    My comment here is focused on display of your Categories and sub-categories in dropdowns in the horizontal menu of your blog.

    Staff have provided this support documentation entry for those who want to structure their blog like a website which is what you want to do. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

    What’s critical is to understand when creating a website structure is the following:
    1. The differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

    2. There is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages.

    3. We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. Although there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance we have done so by creating a custom menu. In that custom menu you will be displaying Categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation to achieve what you want.

    These are the how-to instructions:

    1. You create a custom menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

    2. You add the Categories you want to display and arrange them in the order you want.

    3. Then you add and drop and drag the sub-categories below the appropriate Categories, and when you have everything arranged in the menu that you want you save the menu.

    4. Go to the “theme location” module at upper left on the menu page. Select your custom menu name from the pull-down labeled “primary location.” Click the save button in that module.

    Note: If you wish you can also include pages and sub-pages of your own choice and custom links in your custom menu as well.

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