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How to Add Navigation Links

September 25th, 2006 · 101 Comments

Cutline comes pre-loaded with three navigation links in the header:

  • Front Page
  • Archives
  • About

That’s all fine and good, but what if you need more links in your navigation menu? In this quick tutorial, you’ll learn just how easy it is to add these links in seamless fashion.

Learning by Example

Let’s say that you have two pages that you want to add. The first contains pictures of your beloved dogs, and the second is a contact form that you’ve constructed to allow readers to give you targeted feedback. The two pages are called “dogs” and “contact,” respectively.

The end result we’re looking for here, then, is to have a header that contains the following links:

  • Front Page
  • Archives
  • About
  • Dogs
  • Contact

One thing to note before we get started, though, is that you must actually create these pages before you can link to them. If you’re new to this process, here’s what you need to do (for the sake of this example, we’ll create the “dogs” page):

    Image showing the post slug field with dogs entered as the slug

  1. Log into your WP Administration panel and click on the Write tab.
  2. One of the sub-navigation tabs should be called Write Page — click on that link to go to the Page editor.
  3. This is the most important step. Maximize the Post slug module (pictured above at right) that lies to the right of the post entry box. Enter “dogs” in that box.
  4. Once you’re done entering your page content, click on the Publish button.

After you’ve created your pages with the proper post slugs, it’s time to open up the header.php file and make the edits that will force these new pages to display as navigation links.

Editing your header file to add new links

Your navigation links are basically just an unordered list of links. If you haven’t made any changes to the file, then you’ll see four menu item links in your header.php file:

  • front page
  • archives
  • about
  • RSS

The list item code for the about link contains the code that you will need to copy for your first link. In this example, we’ll start with the “dogs” page.

Alright, your default code for the about link looks like this:

<li><a <?php if (is_page('about')) echo('class="current" '); ?>href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/about/">about</a></li>

Copy this code and then paste it directly underneath the existing about list item (<li>).

Apply the edits in red from the following snippet of code:

<li><a <?php if (is_page('dogs‘)) echo(’class=”current” ‘); ?>href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>/dogs/”>dogs</a></li>

Follow the same process for the “contact” page, but replace all references to “dogs” with “contact” in the above code.

Once you’re done, FTP the new header.php file into your Cutline theme directory.

If you’ve done everything right, when you visit your new pages, the navigation links will be green and underlined.

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101 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Javier // Sep 25, 2006 at 2:54 pm

    I replaced the links in header.php with a call to wp_list_pages() (a standard WordPress function), like this:

    <li class="page_item<?php if (is_home()) echo(' current_page_item'); ?>"><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/" title="Home: <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>">Home</a></li>
    <?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li='); ?>
    <li class="page_item rss"><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">RSS</a></li>

    Also added a CSS item for ‘current_page_item’, so the links are properly underlined.

    This way, I can manage everything from within the Wordpress prefs, without needing to edit header.php for every link I want to add or change.

  • 2 Chris // Sep 25, 2006 at 3:28 pm

    Javier,

    This is an elegant solution to a very pesky problem that is common among blogs.

    The only thing that some folks might find restricting is the fact that all of your WordPress pages will be listed in the navigation links if you use this code. There is, of course, a way to exclude certain pages from that list, but I wonder if this might be getting too technical for some folks.

    Either way, I really like this solution, and because it involves the use of a standard WordPress function, I will likely include it in the next release of Cutline (with attribution, of course).

    Thanks for your contribution!

  • 3 ThomasToaster // Oct 6, 2006 at 1:06 pm

    Somewhat unrelated (?).

    I’m running Lyceum 0.33 (which I highly recommend for people who want to manage several blogs from one location) and dropped in the Cutline Theme.

    Everything seems to work like a dream, except for the “Cutline Archives” checkbox does not seem to do much of anything.

    I cannot figure out why not. Any hints on which files I might need to revise?

  • 4 Chris // Oct 6, 2006 at 1:39 pm

    Thomas,

    Follow these steps to get your archives working:

    1. In your WordPress Administration panel, go to Manage and then Pages.
    2. Locate your Archives page and select Edit.
    3. Do not change anything on the page itself — instead, simply click Save.

    Once you’ve done that, your Archives page should be active.

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  • 6 Jen // Oct 17, 2006 at 4:45 pm

    What if I want to create links to external sites, not just pages within my blog?

  • 7 Chris // Oct 17, 2006 at 4:48 pm

    Then instead of utilizing the PHP in the link declarations, simply hard-code the links themselves.

  • 8 Brenda // Oct 21, 2006 at 4:10 am

    Dear Chris,
    I’m setting up my first ever blog. I love cutline, but am having some problems customizing it. I’ve managed to create navagation links and use other images, but links aren’t green or underlined, the pages aren’t what I need etc. I’m assuming that these are really basic issues that I can resolve once I understand how blogs are structured and actually work. Can you suggest a site, tutorial or book that will give me the basics in an easy to understand form?
    Thanks,

  • 9 Brenda // Oct 22, 2006 at 4:45 am

    Me again. I’m getting my head around all this and most things are now working after I started again from scratch.
    However, I’m still having a problem with 2 pages. I want them to be like the about page, but I’m getting 404 pages and the links are not green and underlined. I’m using a custom permalink structure: /how2gethealthy.com/%postname%/ which works for the front page, about and contact page. When I switch to the Blix or defaul themes all pages work fine. Also, when I edit the pages everything looks right in the preview pane, but when I go to the site, it’s not right.
    Can you help?

  • 10 Brenda // Oct 22, 2006 at 5:05 am

    Resolved it! Because the page names have two words and the post slug puts a dash between the words, the code in header.php needed a dash too.
    href=”/good-dogs/”>good dogs
    Sorry about all the posts, but maybe they are helpful to other beginners.

  • 11 Chris // Oct 23, 2006 at 6:26 am

    Nice work, Brenda!

    Yes, by default, WordPress automatically adds a dash to post names in URLs in place of spaces, dashes, colons, and most other special characters. Apostrophes get nuked, I think.

  • 12 Bryan // Oct 24, 2006 at 12:28 am

    Chris, I followed you r instruction, but I keeo getting 404s on my pages i created in wordpress for about and my new TopTen.

    HELP!

  • 13 Scott Secor // Oct 24, 2006 at 5:58 am

    Hi Chris,

    Great theme! Love Cutline! I have one question. I already have extra pages created. 3 to be exact. How do I add these to the navigation. I don’t want to have to recreate them if I don’t have to.

  • 14 Chris // Oct 24, 2006 at 10:09 am

    Scott, follow the instructions from the post, but use the post slugs of your existing pages. It should be a breeze!

  • 15 Chris // Oct 24, 2006 at 10:12 am

    Bryan: You need to change your permalink structure or else account for the way your permalinks are currently constructed. All the info you need to make this happen is contained in the Cutline article, Why Don’t My Archives and About Links Work?

  • 16 Scott Secor // Oct 24, 2006 at 1:36 pm

    Hi Chris,

    Followed the post to the T and it worked like a charm! Thanks a bunch!

    Great Work!

  • 17 Scott Secor // Oct 24, 2006 at 1:49 pm

    Is there a way to get a tag line to show up?

  • 18 Bryan // Oct 24, 2006 at 2:42 pm

    done! thanks!

  • 19 Scott Secor // Oct 24, 2006 at 3:50 pm

    Hi Chris,

    I added a navigation page called Author’s Forum, but now it won’t underline like all the other links? Any ideas?

  • 20 Chris // Oct 25, 2006 at 4:00 pm

    Scott, you’ve changed the code to that suggested by Javier in one of the above comments. As a result, you’ll have to add your own CSS definitions to handle this new header structure.

    If you want to work off of the old header structure, all you have to do is follow the directions in this post, replacing all instances of post slugs with the appropriate slugs from your new pages.

    If you want to see a visual example of this, watch how I added a Contact link to the navigation menu in this video.

  • 21 michael // Oct 29, 2006 at 2:16 am

    i followed your instructions to add extra nav links to the header. when i do that, the links show up at the top, but i get a 404 error and it can’t find the page (mosaic-seattle.org/word/contact). however, if i put “?page_id=7″ for the url path in the href part of the line in header.php, then the page is found. any thoughts? thanks!

  • 22 hillary rubin // Nov 15, 2006 at 2:15 pm

    thanks for your site you are a genius. I am wanting to put up one page right now. I am using wordpress and not sure how to get to the about part of this.

    I did what you said to start with the post slug but when I put it in last night I had the post that came up saying I was in the wrong place.

    confused but eager to learn.

  • 23 hillary rubin // Nov 15, 2006 at 2:16 pm

    oh and how do I upgrade thru wordpress to the new design?

    thanks again and again.

  • 24 Chris // Nov 15, 2006 at 4:03 pm

    Hillary,

    In all likelihood, you have not yet changed your WordPress permalinks. I highly recommend doing so, and you should be able to accomplish this by using two great resources on the topic:

  • 25 Chris // Nov 15, 2006 at 4:08 pm

    Oh, and check out this video, which shows you how to install and activate a WordPress theme.

  • 26 hillary rubin // Nov 15, 2006 at 4:31 pm

    guess what I didnt realize I was to do this in html and probably reacted instead of taking a moment.. forgot my yoga. I did it and it worked thanks for taking me over to the html world.

    I will look over what you said above and makethose changes….

    thanks thanks and thanks again.. if you are into yoga try out my podcast … its a level one.

  • 27 Glenn Hubbers // Nov 19, 2006 at 11:41 am

    Chris,

    I’m having a problem that I can’t figure out anywhere I look. I don’t know if it’s in the Cutline templates or somewhere else. Perhaps you know.

    For my blog at www.hubbers.ca I have the following link for to subscribe built into the nav bar ( http://www.hubbers.ca/?feed=rss2 ) and it seems to work fine.

    However, for the Feed icon that shows up in the Firefox address bar, it brings me to the comments feed rather than the posts feed.

    Do you know where this is set?

    Glenn

    Th

  • 28 Chris // Nov 20, 2006 at 3:55 pm

    Glenn,

    At first, I believed that burning a few different feeds off of your page might be the problem. I checked that condition at Pearsonified (where I burn three feeds), but my live bookmark in FireFox works just fine over there.

    So, either you have a plugin that is skewing things, or else you can modify a reading/syndication setting in the WordPress Administration panel (likely in the Options section).

  • 29 Glenn Hubbers // Nov 21, 2006 at 2:03 pm

    Thanks. I have reduced the plugins to a very small list, even deleting the ones that were not activated, and can’t find anything in the Options section.

    Perhaps this is a problem with my web host, Netfirms. I have real problems with them in terms of Permalinks and I am looking for a new host, so maybe this problem will go away when I move the site.

  • 30 Chris // Nov 21, 2006 at 2:13 pm

    Glenn,

    I’m not sure the host has anything to do with this, but you never know.

    Try making this change in your

    file:

    Right now, your RSS link refers to:

    http://www.hubbers.ca/index.php/feed/

    Try changing that to:

    http://www.hubbers.ca/feed/

    and see if that doesn’t fix things.

  • 31 Drew // Dec 4, 2006 at 1:57 am

    I noticed that by changing my permalinks to date and time based that my RSS feed link in the header bar no longer works. Can you offer some assistance here?

    Thanks in advance.
    Drew

  • 32 RyanG. // Dec 6, 2006 at 10:51 pm

    “Jen // Oct 17, 2006 at 4:45 pm

    What if I want to create links to external sites, not just pages within my blog?”

    Jen,
    I’m not sure if you’ve figured this out yet — it doesn’t look like it. I had to add a link to an external site, to a separate photoblog. Here’s how I did it:

    First get the Links_To plugin.

    Then, write the page just like Chris describes above — but in addition to adding the post slug, also add a Custom Field of “links_to” (without quotes), and then put your external url in the next field.

    Then, in header.php, you shouldn’t copy and then replace that entire “about” snippet. Instead, just do external

    Chris,
    Any chance of writing a tubetorial about changing background colors (or, in my case, adding a tile). I can’t quite wrap my head around where to add the paddings. You mentioned in the comments of another post that you were thinking about writing one. I want to have a tile in the areas that don’t have text. I’ll keep trying… but a ping pong game’s a’calling right now.

    Thanks for the great theme! I’ve tried many in the past year, and this is by far my favorite.

  • 33 RyanG. // Dec 6, 2006 at 10:52 pm

    Darn it, I did post that code correctly. Trying again.

    photoblog

  • 34 RyanG. // Dec 7, 2006 at 12:28 am

    Chris, sorry for pasting the code wrong twice. I figured it was either a code tag or a pre tag. Anyway, here’s what I was trying to paste, except with brackets.

    [li][a href=”http://your.external.page”]external[/a][/li]

  • 35 Mike Edwards // Dec 9, 2006 at 3:00 pm

    I just installed cutline today and love the layout. However, I had some pages already that now won’t display. I put them in the header file and then the links showed up but it seems its calling for the file in a new place? How can I rectify that?

    Mike

  • 36 Dorothy // Dec 11, 2006 at 12:15 pm

    Hi Chris,
    I’m a blogging newbie…I love the Cutline theme but don’t know much about anything. I’m trying to add new pages to my site and have followed the first half of your instructions (through setup on the manage tab) However, can’t seem to locate the correct header.php file. I am looking at it in some huge URL.

    But when I click on the View link, all I see is: (something that got omitted)

  • 37 Chris // Dec 11, 2006 at 12:33 pm

    Dorothy,

    I don’t know enough about Yahoo! hosting to advise you one way or the other. You may try contacting their tech support for assistance.

  • 38 Jaery // Jan 3, 2007 at 8:42 pm

    Chris,
    I followed your advice to Thomas on Oct 6th above but can’t seem to resolve the 404 error. Any ideas?

    Thank you,
    -jaery

  • 39 Jaery // Jan 3, 2007 at 8:46 pm

    ouch - I’m such a pro at comments… I get a 404 error with About and Archives even after the WP/Manage/pages/edit/save routine you mentioned on Oct 6th. Any advice would be appreciated.

  • 40 Franck Silvestre // Jan 9, 2007 at 6:13 pm

    Hey Jaery,

    After spending more than an hour figuring out how to add my archive page, this is how I did it:

    Follow these steps to get your archives working:

    1. In your WordPress Administration panel, go to Manage and then Pages.
    2. Locate your Archives page and select Edit.
    Tip: If you don’t have an archive page (like me), do this:
    a. create a page
    b. call it archive (in title)
    c. In post slug (on the right sidebar), write: archives
    3. Do not change anything on the page itself — instead, simply click Save.

    It should work like this.

    Let me know if you have any problem.

  • 41 m-alo // Jan 14, 2007 at 3:47 am

    Is it possible to get the “current”-class to work on more pages than one at the same time? (I’m talking about the Navigation links in the header).

    I have a page called “contact” with a sub-page called “contactform”. Only the “contact”-link is visible in the header-navigation. I would like that “contact”-link to have the “current”-class (so the link shows up in green) even when I’m viewing the “contactform”-subpage.

    I hope I’ve managed to explain my problem task in an understandable way (english isn’t exactly my first language!)

  • 42 m-alo // Jan 14, 2007 at 3:55 am

    I figured it out myself. I just had to put the is_page(’contactform’) in together with is_page(’contact’) and it works like a charm.

  • 43 Chris // Jan 14, 2007 at 4:04 pm

    M-alo,

    You nailed it! Nice work.

  • 44 Tracy // Jan 28, 2007 at 2:10 pm

    Hi Chris,

    Okay, this is a really basic, basic question (but I’m new to this blogging thing), but where do I actually go to find the header.php folder?

  • 45 Francois Wessels // Jan 29, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    Hi Chris,

    Thanks for a great theme. Your theme and tips really improved my site 200%.

    Couple of questions though:

    1. In the sidebar, how and where do I change colours of the links? I know it should be in the stylesheet but I do not now exactly where.
    2. I am missing search from the site, like it is on the Cutline HP. How do I implement that?

    Regards

    Francois Wessels

  • 46 Robert Bruce // Jan 29, 2007 at 2:52 pm

    Can’t seem to get the Nav links centered up there (instead of set left) no matter what I try… anyone?

    Thanks much.

    rb

  • 47 Debbie Ridpath Ohi // Jan 30, 2007 at 10:11 pm

    I set up Cutline today and it works splendidly so far, but I’ve noticed a small glitch…not sure if it’s my fault or not.

    I cartoon today and it appears fine on the main page and on its individual page, but for some reason it doesn’t appear in the monthly archives:

    See this link to see what I mean.

    The post appears, but the image doesn’t. :-(

    Any suggestions welcome, thanks!

  • 48 Chris // Jan 31, 2007 at 12:28 am

    Debbie,

    By default, archives are constructed with the_excerpt(), which is a standard WordPress function that does not reproduce things like paragraph breaks, images, or other standard XHTML entities.

    If you want your images to appear in your archives, then you’ll need to copy your post (or however much of your post you wish to show) into the Optional Excerpt field that you’ll find on the Write Page screen.

  • 49 Debbie Ridpath Ohi // Jan 31, 2007 at 8:29 am

    Thanks, Chris!

  • 50 Travis // Mar 3, 2007 at 11:48 pm

    Hi Chris,

    Thanks so much for cutline–it’s designed beautifully.

    And thanks for responding to our questions.

    I’m trying to set up my site, and I’m having trouble getting the archives page to keep an active archive, not just be a static page. Is there a good way to set it up so that each new post will be cataloged on the archives page? So when people click on the archives page, they’ll get to see all the posts?

    Thanks for your help.

    Cheers,
    Travis

  • 51 Travis // Mar 4, 2007 at 12:17 am

    Chris,

    Figured it out with Word Press support. Sorry for that trouble–but NEW trouble:

    I wanted to have posts archived by category on separate category pages — you can see in my navigation bar I have the desired category links, but their pages are blank. Is there an easy way to set up templates for each category, so people can read categorized archives?

    Sorry again for the trouble. I don’t think I’ll figure this one out in the word press forums, so let me know if you can help.

    Thanks!

    Travis

  • 52 ella // Mar 16, 2007 at 7:31 am

    Hi, Chris!
    I’ve only been using Cutline for a day or so and love it. I was even able to restore my archives page thanks to the help here.

    I have a question about how to handle something in an elegant way before it becomes too involved to do so. My blog is mostly about food and I created a page called recipes for my own that I mention in posts. I can see that page becoming a nightmare after a while.

    Is there some way to link to the recipe in question, sort of like using a field in Word, and spare people having to scroll, scroll? Or should they have their own archive, perhaps?

    My blog’s at ellaella.wordpress.com if you need to see it. I have a couple other questions, but they’re really cosmetic, and can wait.
    TIA..
    ella

  • 53 Jürgen // Mar 17, 2007 at 10:20 am

    Cool Infos, Guys. I searches for this information for adding the Navigation links just a couple of hours and now i got it here. Very helpfull. Perfect. Jiiiiha. :-)

  • 54 John // Mar 27, 2007 at 3:09 pm

    Hey mates, thanks a lot for the infos. very usefull for me. Thx. John

  • 55 Strafverteidiger München // Apr 18, 2007 at 7:38 pm

    Thanks, Chris!

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  • 57 ben // Apr 26, 2007 at 9:31 pm

    Per directions, when using the WRITE PAGE,
    there is no “Post Slug” listed. There is only “Page Slug.”

    Is this the correct slug to use?

    thanks

  • 58 jason // Apr 29, 2007 at 11:07 pm

    Nice theme Chris. Is there a way to center the Nav items in the header.php? I have tried a few options but none seems to move them from the left alignment? Thanks

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  • 60 Piyush Rawat // Jul 1, 2007 at 3:04 am

    Hello,
    Can we regenerate Post Slug as i have by mistake saved all post and by mysql have make them publish but post slug cannt be generated and when i use pemalink page name is coming empty so i want to regenerate all post slug again.

  • 61 Thomas // Jul 6, 2007 at 1:29 pm

    Hmm my pages are not working anymore.
    http://blog.thomaslaupstad.com/about/ show up just blank, not even the sidebar is there.

    I have added the “about” as page slug to the page. Anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

  • 62 Thomas // Jul 6, 2007 at 1:54 pm

    I figured out that all my pages are not showing.

    It’s really weird because it works fine with my other blog that is also using cutline.

  • 63 Hopeful Spirit // Jul 11, 2007 at 9:04 pm

    Didn’t work. I followed your directions exactly but the pages will not come up.

  • 64 Terry // Jul 17, 2007 at 1:39 pm

    Hi,

    thanks for the theme - its awesome!

    i have a couple of slight problems using the 3-column rignt theme:
    1) the archives page doesnt work by default - just gives a 404 - do i need to configure anything?
    2) the header from the search widget is missing now i have moved it.

    if youhave any suggestions, i would be even more grateful than i already am!

    thanks again :)

  • 65 Terry // Jul 17, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    typical - fixed the issue with the archives about 2 minutes after posting my previous message!

    any help with the missing header from the search widget would be appreciated though.

    thanks.

  • 66 Enci // Jul 22, 2007 at 7:10 pm

    I accidently deleted my archives page. Of course, now that I set it up new, it’s blank.

    How do I get my archives back?

  • 67 terry // Aug 1, 2007 at 2:55 pm

    Just getting started but can’t seem to make the about, archives or comments work. Any suggestions.

  • 68 Lagerist // Aug 2, 2007 at 7:53 am

    Hi

    What do I have to do if I want my navigation link to point to anther website (I don’t want it to open in a new window)?

    Thanks for your help!

  • 69 Hi // Aug 3, 2007 at 4:11 am

    Hello again!

    Sorry, I saw now that somebody already asked and answered this question. I did everything as explained but I don’t understnad the following:

    “Then, in header.php, you shouldn’t copy and then replace that entire “about” snippet. Instead, just do external” The link to “external” doesn’t work.

    My page is www.der-lagerist.com

    Thanks for your help!

  • 70 Tim // Aug 13, 2007 at 5:17 pm

    Ryan,
    I am also trying to link to a homepage which is not in wordpress (i.e. my blog is a seperate subdomain. How do I link my blog to this in the nav bar (so people can return to my main website page from the blog)?

    Thanks

  • 71 Mbjorn // Aug 13, 2007 at 6:25 pm

    I am not a web developer, nor have I used CSS enough to know what I’m doing. However, I followed your instructions to add Navigation Links to my header and everything worked, except, when I created a post, the title of the post became a hyperlink. When clicking on the title of a post, it would link to a page with a 404 error.

    So I went to WordPress support and was told to re-set permalinks to default (I did and now I have no “linkable” Nav Links), and further, when I asked about other options to make the Nav Links work was told, “No. There is nothing about designing (whatever this means). Make your .htaccess file writable = chmod 666.
    Set your permalink to the desired structure (and let WP write to the .htaccess file). Done.”

    Any suggestions? Is WordPress support this unhelpful?

    I want to add a few more Navigation Links. How do I avoid WordPress support, and make posts NOT have titles that link to pages with a 404 error?

  • 72 Mbjorn // Aug 13, 2007 at 6:31 pm

    Whoops. My e-mail address in the above post is an hybrid of my home and work e-mails. Please use this one: bjornebym@unitedwaytwincities.org.

    Never done that before. :)

  • 73 Mbjorn // Aug 13, 2007 at 6:40 pm

    I’m not a web developer, however I used your instructions on how to add Nav Links to my header and this worked, except, the titles of all my posts were all hyperlinked. When clicking on the titles, they linked to pages with a 404 error.

    So I went to WordPress support (not sure why) and was told to re-set permalinks to default. Now my Nav Links don’t work.

    So I asked WP support if I had options for my Nav Links and was told:
    “No, you don’t. There is nothing about designing.
    It is a two (or 3?) steps process.
    Make your .htaccess file writable = chmod 666.
    Set your permalink to the desired structure (and let WP write to the .htaccess file)
    Done.”

    Help, please.

  • 74 Shawn Collins // Aug 19, 2007 at 8:45 pm

    I just installed Cutline and noticed that I get a 404 error for the “Archives” navigation link, which points to http://weviews.tv/archives/

    Any idea on what’s wrong here?

  • 75 Shawn Collins // Aug 19, 2007 at 9:25 pm

    Another thing I noticed - the sitemap link from the footer (http://weviews.tv/sitemap/) hits a 404 error page, too.

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  • 77 Ruthiness // Sep 11, 2007 at 5:44 pm

    Hi,

    Probably this is a simple question but - I have figured out how to add Nav Links like about but my default page (root directory) is empty and I don’t know how to have it display a page. What slug do I use so that when in the docroot of my site, it will display a page???? I can get to an About page and made a Home page that links to the same content (about) but if you are in the docroot, the content area is completely blank! Help?!

  • 78 sean sen // Sep 16, 2007 at 7:22 pm

    solve big prob,I will try it on

  • 79 David // Oct 2, 2007 at 1:43 pm

    Is there a way to make a ‘page’ display as a ‘category.’
    in this case, to make a ‘navigation link’ perform as a ‘category’ link.

  • 80 David // Oct 19, 2007 at 11:52 am

    I figured it out. By copying the about line:
    is_page(’about’
    and
    /about/”>about
    and pasting a new line replacing the “about’s” with my category (being video):
    is_category(’video’
    and
    /category/video”>video

  • 81 LiveMtl // Oct 25, 2007 at 2:02 pm

    is there a way to move the nav bar underneath the header image??

  • 82 LiveMtl // Oct 25, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    Sorry figured it out already…!!!
    just move the paragraph starting at (keeping the brackets of course):
    ul id=”nav”
    and ending at:
    /ul
    to just before:
    /div (which is the last word on the header file)

    It works beautifully keeps the line in the right spot and everything.
    check it out:
    www.livemtl.com

  • 83 adam // Nov 13, 2007 at 11:42 am

    all my top menus lead to the same pages..
    about / contact / whatever. click them they all go to the front page again .

    i did this to add the links as Chris said:
    <a href=”/dogs/”>dogs

    and so the links appear but still point to the same front page.
    i played with the slugs. that did nothing.
    any ideas?

    super thanks..

  • 84 adam // Nov 14, 2007 at 1:38 am

    i used the code offered by the first comment on this page.
    now all my pages are active, and links work.
    realise their could be some restrictions that come with this method but i’m not skilled enough to do anything about that.
    great theme chris.

  • 85 John // Dec 10, 2007 at 6:21 pm

    Awesome theme! Thanks!

  • 86 rivka // Dec 17, 2007 at 11:50 am

    I’ve read all the above comments about getting external links to appear in the navigation bar, but being a total rookie, I’m going to need some more info. I’d like to have a link in my nav bar to, say, my amazon store. What is the exact code that goes between the and tags to make this link? (Assume I want to call it “store” and the link is “http://amazon.com”)

    Thanks and great theme!

  • 87 Nevets // Dec 18, 2007 at 3:24 pm

    Forgive me as I am very new to all of this and rather green. I was able to create the new navigation link but when I click on the link it takes me to a blank page. How do I make sure the link takes me to a page with content on it?

  • 88 Ted // Jan 3, 2008 at 3:18 am

    I apologize if this has already been posted somewhere else on the site, but is it possible to change the ‘Front Page’ navigation link to another phrase? I just have a regular Wordpress.com account, so if the solution entails modifying the css, I guess I would be unable to do this.

  • 89 Nathan // Jan 3, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    Chris, first of all I’d like to say thanks for an incredible design. I love how clean, smooth and ergonomic it could be.

    To my point, I’ve added this code in the place of the of nav buttons.

    <li class=”page_item”><a href=”/” title=”Home: “>Home

    <a href=”">RSS

    Yes, that’s Javier’s code posted above. Then I went to my page editor and added Sports, Technology, Politics, Submit nav buttons. I have one question.

    What code do I need to add or subtract to make each navigation link it’s own page, it’s own blog? I don’t want the same header on each page, nor do I want the same exact formatting. I’d like it to fit, but be different.

    I’m relatively new to php code and I know basic HTML, but totally fresh when it comes to blogging. I also wonder, is it possible to have different ads and sidebar’s on each individual page? How so?

    Lastly, I want to add a login/register button in the top left corner of each page, how can I manage that?

    I know it’s a lot, but I’ve looked freaking every where. I’ve found out that WP support isn’t exactly support, more like a hot mess of a forum. Your the source, your the man with the correct answers. I appreciate any help I can get, Chris.

    Thanks again for a great template, easily the nicest one around. Please, take a few minutes to help me out?

    Later on

  • 90 ChrisW // Feb 13, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    I can’t get the Nav links to highlight my post page if I make the home page a static page. I assigned posts to a page I called “news”, changed the code to reflect that: <a href=”/news/”>news but it doesn’t seem to recognize the post as being on that page. Ideas?

  • 91 ChrisW // Feb 13, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    Never mind, I got it! If you want your posts to be on a page other than the front, you still use if(is_home()) but assign a different page at the end of the target URL.

  • 92 David // Feb 16, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    For those that missed how to add a navigation link to the header that references a link outside of your blog you simply insert the following:
    Google

  • 93 Shawn // Mar 6, 2008 at 7:35 pm

    how do you change the widths of the navigation links?

  • 94 Chris // Mar 7, 2008 at 10:51 am

    I have the same question as ted.

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  • 96 furniturestores // Mar 17, 2008 at 1:30 am

    Good services and products, very helpfull, simply greatest!

  • 97 Eric // Mar 29, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    I’m able to find the styling for the width of the navigation bar elements, but I can’t figure out where you’ve designated the height. Can you point me in the right direction? I just want to trim about 1/4 off the bottom of the nav bar. I’ll keep looking in the mean time.

  • 98 Eric // Mar 29, 2008 at 6:03 pm

    Nevermind. Figured it out. It’s all in the margins and padding.

  • 99 peter // Apr 22, 2008 at 8:42 pm

    when I create a new page the “post slug” (page name) seems to be ignored for some reason.

    So I put in the slug name “about” - but the page created is “www.site.com/?page_id=2″

    any idea what I’m missing?

  • 100 peter // Apr 22, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    this is the site:

    http://www.thenewrunaways.com

  • 101 Dana // May 20, 2008 at 3:20 am

    Hi, and thank you for a great theme. I have been able to successfully modify the nav bar using your very clear instructions to others above. Thank you!

    Here’s my question: The last of my six nav bar buttons wraps onto the line below (it’s a multi-word phrase), although visually, it appears there is room for all of it. Can you please tell me the code to change in order to either adjust the margins of the nav bar a wee bit, or else adjust the space between the buttons, so that all six buttons will fit onto one line?

    Many thanks for any help you can provide — you’re a great inspiration to those of us who are new to this and learning. You are helping a lot of people’s lives and dreams come together thanks to your kind efforts.

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