• Hey Gang,

    Thanks in advance for any and all help. On the page that I’ve linked to on the Blogs menu item in the header, I want to be able to click on any of the 4 Categories and scroll directly to any of them, then, click on a blog. As it stands right now, I have to pick the blog from the header menu item ONLY.

    Of course, I AM able to manually scroll to any of the categories, and click on any of the 3 blogs currently available. I’m just trying to foresee the user that clicks on the “Blogs” item from the Home page, then presumptuously clicks on a Category and although, they can click on a blog article from there, that particular page is rather drab.

    Now, I just had the idea that I could copy the graphics that are on each Category. Would it be that simple? AND if I do that, is there any kind of plugin that could import those graphics.
    Thanks again,
    GPLEA

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Your site is not yet published, so requires admin access to see it. Any sort of privileged access is not allowed in these forums. Without the example I can only guess at what your site may be like.

    You can have menu items skip down to any element with an ID attribute. Let’s say a category heading has the ID “cat-foo”. A relative menu link like #cat-foo would take you there. But relative links only work on that specific page. To use the menu on other pages you’d need a full absolute link like https://example.com/categories/#cat-foo. This will still take you to the right place, but also forces a page reload if you’re already on the /categories/ page.

    I discourage you from replicating anything on your site unchanged. There is rarely a need for redundancy. Strive to utilize the same resource as often as needed. Templates let you do this. You could have a single category template that works for any category. It’ll utilize the same graphics on every page, always from the same resource, even though the specific category may vary.

    Thread Starter gplea58

    (@gplea58)

    Hello bcworkz, and thanks for the response. I actually got lots of production since I posted, although, it was painstaking, and time-consuming. I wasn’t really satisfied until late last night, and I was too tired to reply. Anyhoo, I found the Enhanced Category Pages plugin that helped me straighten everything out. To edit any of the Category pages goto the Posts/Category and pick whatever Category you wish. However, to EDIT that actual page instead of clicking on the 1st Edit, click on Enhanced Edit at the end. What I’ve completed so far looks beautiful. I just need to complete some blog posts so everything looks uniform. No big deal. There IS a tiny little issue that for the life of me I can’t figure out. If you go to either the Vocal or Piano Category from Blogs to the bottom left of the picture you’ll see in small gray print the word “Edit”. I’ve deleted all the fields in the Category page settings, but I can’t make that go away. Otherwise, everything is perfect. The reason the other Cat pages is simply becuz I haven’t posted any articles in them.

    Thread Starter gplea58

    (@gplea58)

    Hello again bcworkz. After I finished the response post above I encountered a problem with one of my categories that when you look at the backend of the Category Menu setup it won’t sit in the hierarchy setup just right. Meaning, the Piano category USED to sit correctly with the same indentation as my other categories. Now, even though, it looks just fine when I display the site in all its glory. However, the Piano Category sits 1 level OUT from where the other Categories sit. So, for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to fix it. I can’t even figure out how it got screwed up. Anyhow, any suggestions?

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    The edit links should not be visible to regular visitors. It’s only visible to you because your user has post edit capability.

    As for the extra indent, it might be there’s an extra, invisible HTML element giving the extra indent. The only way to see it would be to view the post content using the text or code view. Removing the offending element tags while in code view would then resolve the problem.

    We still cannot view your site because it’s not published. You need to publish it through your hosting account before it’ll be visible to others. This is a different “Publish” than publishing individual posts.

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