how to remove permanent menu link of Category, Archives & Meta Etc.

YOu have edit the template to change the links. The main menu is most likely in the header file.

I have the same problem. However I do not find anything related to the ‘category’ menu in the header.php file (found in my theme folder).

Perhaps there is another ‘header.php’ file somewhere else that I can go, which for some reason I cannot delete in the admin area.

Thanks for any help or clues.

If your theme has a sidebar – the code should be in the sidebar.php file. Just remove the reference to the areas you want to remove, AFTER making a backup copy of the php file, just in case. If you intend to remove all the meta entried – make sure you save the one relating to login-logout. I removed all but my links and site admin tags in my theme from r_sidebar.php – which is how my theme was organized.

Thank you, this worked. This is the first WordPress site I’ve built, and I’m having trouble understanding the logic of WordPress menus. I’m quite familiar with Joomla and thought WordPress was just a simpler version of Joomla. It looks like I’m wrong, that WordPress standard menus are meant for blogging only.

It seems that to use WordPress for a very non-blog website, you’d need to use a third-party menu to keep the menu consistent on every page. If anyone can recommend such a third-party menu, that would be appreciated.

Can’t help with a menu specifically, but you can find various menu codes using javascript or CSS you can add yo your site many places on the web. Just do a search for the type of menu you want.

WordPress IS designed as blogging software – that’s true. Some people use it as a basic website app – i gather by using static pages. My opinion is it is far easier to construct a site using strictly markup and styling it with your own CSS file. At least that’s how I do mine. Validate your code and you’re in business. I don’t know anything about joomla so I can’t offer any insight. You can enclose a WP blog in a website using iframes, though many/most people don’t like them for various reasons.

Some WP themes lend themselves better than others to use as a website – you’d have to look through the themes viewer to find one that meets your needs and then edit the CSS and/or PHP to get exactly what you want.

I agree. I’m also coming from Joomla, which allows you to write one php file, and just echo your sections (modules) wherever you like. It’s very simple and a nice way for writing custom themes. I have yet to figure out menus and theming in WordPress. I think the user interface is much nicer, but in order to get a ‘normal’ website, not just a blog site set up, it seems to be a huge pain. Joomla’s menu system makes it incredibly easy to just add a link to anything, anywhere. And creating multiple menus is a snap.
It would be nice if this was changed in the future.