Adjust theme headermenu: static pages contact/about/…

  • Hello everybody!

    I have downloaded and installed the theme Shade pro from themespinner (https://ericulous.com/2008/09/16/wp-theme-shade-pro/) and seem to have it working. There is just one thing that I do not understand. At the moment, I have a homepage, and I can make new categories. But these new categories do not appear in the headermenu (blue tabs) unless I post a blog into them. And I do not want to.

    What I want to do is add a few pages (WP 2.7) to my theme to put contact, about etc. on. These do not need posts on them, but standard content that never changes! When I just try to add a new page, this page only appears in the right menu, and not in the headerbar. So this isn’t my sollution either.

    To my knowledge (which is limited) I can not simply add a category or a page to solve my problem being that they do not appear in the headermenu.

    Here is the codebit that is in header.php and home.php that should control the headermenu, if I am right:

    <?php
		// Category Sort options
		global $categories_sort;
		if(get_settings('Shade_sortcategories')!='')
		{
			$categories_sort = 'sort_column='. get_settings('Shade_sortcategories');
		}

		// Exclude Categories options
		global $categories_to_exclude;

		if(get_settings('Shade_excludecategories')!='')
		{
			$categories_to_exclude = 'exclude='. get_settings('Shade_excludecategories');
		}
		?>
		<?php wp_head(); ?>
	</head>
	<body>
		<div id="header">
			<div class="header">
				<a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><img src="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/wp-content/themes/Shade/img/logo.gif" alt="Logo" /></a>
				<ul>
					<?php
					require_once( 'wp-content/plugins/printcatslist.php' );
					KFPrintCategories( $categories_to_exclude, false );
					?>
				</ul>
			</div>
		</div>

    Pherhaps the problem can be solved in ‘printcatslist.php’, I do not know. I now think that this is only used for coloring active links, but….

    This is the code from that document:

    <?php
/*
Plugin Name: Category Highlight
Plugin URI: https://www.karlforshaw.co.uk
Description: Highlights the category your currently viewing in the top navigation. <b>Note:<b> Only works in (ver: 2.1+)
Author: Karl Forshaw
Author URI: https://www.karlforshaw.co.uk

Modifications: Ryan Maffit
Modifier URL: https://www.ryanmaffit.com/
*/

	function KFPrintCategories( $categories_to_exclude ) {

		// Check args
		if (empty( $categories_to_exclude )) {
			$arg_string = 'orderby=name';
		}
		else {
			$arg_string = 'orderby=name&exclude=' . $categories_to_exclude;
		}

		// Get the category list
		$categories = get_categories( $arg_string );

		// Get the current category
		global $wp_query;
		$current_category = $wp_query->get_queried_object_id();

		echo "<li".(is_home() ? " class=\"active\"" : "")."><a href=\"".get_bloginfo('siteurl')."\"><span>Home</span></a></li>";

		// Echo the output
		foreach ($categories as $cat) {

			echo "	<li class=\""; 

			if (is_home()) {
				// Do Nothing
			}
			elseif ((! empty( $current_category )) && ($current_category == $cat->term_id)) {
				echo ' active';
			}
			elseif ( in_category( $cat->term_id ) ) {
				echo ' active';
			}

				echo "\">
						<a title=\"View all posts filed under {$cat->name}\" href=\"" . get_category_link( $cat->term_id ) . "\"><span>{$cat->name}</span></a>
				</li>";
		}
		// Done.. phew!
	}

?>

    If there is anyone who knows where I should look to fix this problem, and make some categories ‘static’ (appear in the header menu always!), please tell me.

    I thought of one thing: uploading new documents called about.php, contact.php etc to the directory where also home.php is, code them exactally like home.php (copy paste the html/php), and then somehow link these pages together to get a lot of ‘home.php’ pages in code, that all have different names. Sounds complex, but I am a real beginner! I wouldn’t know where to start as well.

    thanks a lot for helping in advance!

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