Kubrick: Need a page navigation bar

hard coding?

try to edit header.php, and add the code for a page navigation:

<div id="head_nav">
<ul>
			<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=' ); ?>
</ul>
</div>

– so that the code at the end looks like:

<div id="header" role="banner">
	<div id="headerimg">

	<?php $blog_title = get_bloginfo('name');
$blog_title = str_replace('o','<span style="color: #ccc;">o</span>',$blog_title);

?>
		<h1><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><?php echo $blog_title; ?></a></h1>
		<div class="description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>
	</div>
</div>

<div id="head_nav">
<ul>
			<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=' ); ?>
</ul>
</div>

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to turn it into a horizontal nav, edit style.css and add these lines at the end:

/* horizontal header nav */
#head_nav {margin: 5px 20px; float:left; background-color: #eee; width:720px; }

#head_nav h2 {display:none;}

#head_nav ul {
  float: left;
  width: 100%;
  margin:0;
  padding-left: 0;
  list-style-type:none;
  }

#head_nav ul li { display: inline;  }

#head_nav ul li a {
  float: left;
  display:block;
  padding-top: 7px;
  padding-bottom: 5px;
  padding-left:10px;
  padding-right:10px;
  text-decoration: none;
  border-right: 1px solid #000033;
  background:#eee;
  color:#000066;
  font-size:120%;
  }

#head_nav ul li.current_page_item a {
    background-color: #ddd; color: #000;
}

#head_nav ul li a:hover {
    background-color: #ccc ; text-decoration:none;
}
ul li .current-page-item a {  color:#ddd; }

change the colors, etc. to your liking…
be aware, that the default them will be replaced with an update of wordpress, it is a good idea to save your modified default theme under a new name ??

Absolutely perfect…Thank You so much. Works perfectly!

Just need to know how to add a “Home” button to the nav bar now!

<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Home</a>

something like this may be useful

before this
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=' ); ?>

That does add a home button, but it’s not inline and in the same format as my other nav buttons.

hmm…I haven’t really messed with this too much…

my list pages command is wrapped in <li></li> as is my home command….

<ul>
      <?php if (is_page()) { $highlight = "page_item"; } else {$highlight = "page_item current_page_item"; } ?>
      <li class="<?php echo $highlight; ?>"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Home</a></li>
      <?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li='); ?>
    </ul>

is what I have in total…..so I’m not sure if you are able to tinker with any of this info

Ok, thanks, I’ve managed to get it into the nav bar in the same format which is great, but I’d like to know if I can re-order the buttons so that the “Home” button is first.

yeah, just swap where it’s located.

put the code for youor home link (the one like this):
<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Home</a>

above the one that lists your pages (looks like this):
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=' ); ?>

It doesn’t work there as it loses all its formatting.

that is @pRVoodoo’s code for the home link in the right postion to show ‘home’ first in the nav; can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work:

<div id="head_nav">
<ul>

		<?php if (is_page()) { $highlight = "page_item"; } else {$highlight = "page_item current_page_item"; } ?>
      <li class="<?php echo $highlight; ?>"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Home</a></li>

		<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=' ); ?>
</ul>
</div>

does your code look like this?

No, that didn’t work, which is why I had to put it after

<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=’ ); ?>

can you post your header.php in a pastebin ?

do you use a sticky front page?

or you could try this code (conditional format for front page)

<ul>

		<?php if (is_front_page()) { $highlight = "page_item  current_page_item"; } else {$highlight = "page_item"; } ?>
      <li class="<?php echo $highlight; ?>"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Home</a></li>

		<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=' ); ?>
</ul>

Resolved the issue with a sticky front page, I must admit I never thought of that work around, I’d still like to order my page buttons with Home first though!

not sure, this might help:
in ‘edit page’, you can set a number for each page that helps to order them in the menu screenshot

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages

the code snippet would be:
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&sort_column=menu_order' ); ?>