[SOLVED] Home link in page-right menu order in 3.6.4
How can I change the position of the "Home" tab to first position/left in the page-right menu 1 setting using 3.6.4? Found examples in other versions but none worked for me, thanks.
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For the page right menu you need to put the menu tabs in reverse order you want them from left to right.
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I can change the order of all pages except the "home" tab within Wordpress by altering their order number, however this has no effect on "home" since it isn't a "page" in the strictest sense. I read elsewhere on this site of altering bfa_header_config.php, but this had dire consequences. I believe that alteration was intended for an earlier version of Atahualpa. Any other thoughts on this? I'm using Wordpress 3.0.5 and Atahualpa 3.6.4 . I also tried to remove "Home" link from the Menu 1 settings but it still appears in my page menu even after clearing the cache. Could these issues be related somehow?
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Is you use the WordPress menu system you can change the order of anything you want.
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HI Larry,
I think I understand what he's saying. There seems to be something happening with Home. If I have nothing in the ATA setting for a home link then nothing appears. Just like it should be. If I add a home page I get a menu item but not where I want it. If I look at the WP Menu it isn't even showing until I drag it over. I still can't change the location of it. If I add the ATA setting of adding the link name Home then I have 2 of them. What I find strange is that I can't remove the menu items like I used to be able to do easily from the WP Menu area. That I'm not really worried about though. It's getting a home page set up properly. Can't figure out why the menu item won't move. I just added another page named something else and I'm having the same problem. I can't rearrange them like before. This site was just being started and I had several pages up already and decided to upgrade. Hope I didn't make a mistake. Those I can rearrange but not any new ones. I'm running WP3.1 and ATA3.6.4. I just tested the 3.5.3 and also with the default template so it appears it isn't an ATA problem. Time for sleep. Maybe I'll have to revert in the morning. Update: Decided to see if the old standby plugin I us to use would work - My Page Order - I did so it is a temporary solution for me till I fgure out what's happening. |
The WordPress solution is to use the WordPress Menu system (Appearance>Menus). Then you can arrange your menu tabs in any order you want.
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Let me see if I can explain things, because the word 'home' is used a couple ways in wordpress.
Most people think of the 'home' page as being the page that you go to when you type in 'http://mydomain.com' - another terms for this are 'landing' page and 'front' page. Wordpress, by default, displays your posts on the landing/front/home page (the 'posts' page) and this page is automatically generated. This page does not have a 'title' (I'll talk about this a bit more) In WordPress you can create pages and give them a 'title' of anything you want (except for the default landing/front/home page - there is no 'title' for it) Let's assume we create a page called 'Contact Us' and one called 'News'. You now have three (3) pages (what...but we only created two??) right, YOU created two pages, but WordPress automatically creates your 'posts' page for you, so that makes three. Ok, so much for the background, now we start to get messy Atahualpa gives you the option to create a menubar and it will add in all your pages automatically (unless you exclude some, but let's not worry about that). So when you display your page you would see the menu containing HTML Code:
Home Contact Us News HTML Code:
JuggleDad Contact Us News HTML Code:
Home Contact Us News With this option, you can set a static page to be your front page. You also have to setup a page to display your posts. So in our example, lets point the 'Front page:' at 'Contact Us' and the 'Posts page: at 'News' so now your menu bar looks like this HTML Code:
Home Contact Us News But we change our mind and decide to change the title 'Contact Us' to 'Home' and now the menu shows HTML Code:
Home Home News HTML Code:
Home News Ok, you go create a menu and add the two pages 'Home' and 'News' and everything works fine and your menu is still HTML Code:
Home News HTML Code:
Home News You go back into the page that is now called 'Home' and change it to 'Contact Us' and now the menu shows HTML Code:
Contact Us News If you go to dashboard->Appearances->Menus, there is a section called 'Custom Links'. You can put your site address in the URL ('http://mdomain.com' in our example) and put 'Home' in the LABEL and press the 'Add to Menu' button, re-order it's position and you now have HTML Code:
Home Contact Us News =========================================== I hope this helps clear up what can be a confusing mix of options and settings and you now know how to do what you want to do. Oh yeah, if you use %pages or %page-center, then the order of the menu items IF you are using the WordPress Custom menu, is the order you arrange them. If you are using the Atahualpa menu then the order is based on the order specified by the 'ato->Page Menu->Sorting order of Page Menu Bar' option If you use %page-right the display order is reversed - so if you need to change the order in the WordPress Custom menu or change the pae menu order (dashboard->page->edit->Order) |
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I had to find some time to play with this. I'm thinking that I had a problem with the actually install of the theme because I couldn't get it to work no matter what. Downloaded another install and this time I was able to get it working.
Have another issue, this time with the sidebar but I think I'll wait until tomorrow so I can open the site for you to see. Plus I want to do a little research on the site to see if someone else has had the problem. Thanks for the lengthy response. it's nice to have something like this in the archives. |
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