Editing Nav Menu

  • I am planning on switching my blog from twenty twelve to Virtue Premium. Currently the blog posts are located the home page, but with the switch I would like to make a different home page and make the blog part of the nav menu under a label of “Blog” (as with the Virtue Demo theme). How do I make that change? Currently my home nav button is “Custom”, has a label of “Home” and links to https://pintsizepilot.com. I have decent traffic on my site and I just don’t want to lose anyone by moving my blog.

    Thanks !

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  • hannah

    (@hannahritner)

    I’m assuming you’ve created your blog as posts? With virtue you just need to create a new page and select a blog page template and all your posts will be pulled to that page. Then you can link to the page from your menu.
    Hope that makes sense!

    Hannah

    Thread Starter pintsizepilot

    (@pintsizepilot)

    Thank you Hannah. When I move stuff around my nav menu, do you know if I need to re-submit a sitemap to Google etc.? I’m just curious if this kind of change makes it temporarily difficult for search engines to find my content. For example, I have a couple blog post that drive a fair bit of revenue and I don’t want them to be lost.

    It’s a good idea to have a google webmasters account and have a sitemap submitted. If your using a plugin like Yoast SEO then it will make the sitemap automatically and google will see the new version.

    regardless though the bots that crawl sites are smart and they will pick up on the changes too.

    Kadence Themes

    Thread Starter pintsizepilot

    (@pintsizepilot)

    I am trying to minimize my site downtime when I make the switch from twenty twelve to Virtue Premium. Since I already know that my site navigation menu is going to change quite a bit, should I make the new menu under my currently theme (but continue using my old one) and then activate the new one once I convert to Virtue. I just don’t want my site to be down longer than necessary while I fool around trying to get my nav right with the new theme.

    You can, that really is up to how you want to do it and it won’t effect anything in the theme.

    Kadence Themes

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