First Blog Design near completion, stumped on a few things, help please

  • Hello,

    I am a Web Designer / New Programmer, and this is my first experience with WordPress.

    So, we built this website and the customer requested a Blog. So we installed WordPress and hired a designer to customize the design of the blog to match the site.

    Well after he finished, we had to redesign the actual website a bit, and instead of re-hiring him to update the blog, I’ve decided to tackle the blog design myself since the changes are relatively minor.

    So, here is a link to the Blog:
    https://gem-tech.com.mytempweb.com/blog/

    Here is a link to the site we are trying to replicate the design for:
    https://gem-tech.com.mytempweb.com/store/pc/home.asp

    As you can see I am very close, but I am stumped on how to change the actual content (Search Field Text, Horizontal Menu, My Gear Logo)

    See I can make CSS changes relatively easily, but for some reason I can not find which .php file contains where I can modify the menu, images, etc.

    Can anybody here please point me in the right direction? All I want to do is update the top of the blog with the new menu, new ‘my gear’ button & update the search text

    I open the index.php file, and it is just a call to other files, very confusing for me.

    Thanks in advance,

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  • to edit the main menu (which is located in the header) edit the file

    wp-content/themes/yourtheme/header.php

    but be aware that by default this is a self-populating menu, meaning if you add or remove pages in the admin panel, they are automatically added to the menu. You could hard-code the pages into the menu here if you like, but that leaves a static menu and may be vulnerable to errors when changing the path (or URL) of a certain page in the admin panel.

    In WP 3.0, there is a new customisable menu feature that you could implement – what version of WP are you using?

    @blackreef, @macramsay,
    Doesn’t seem like this menu is “self-populating”. Looks like the developer replaced the complete structure of Suffusion’s menus with something totally different and put in a hard-coded static menu etc.

    If the developer hadn’t modified the files you would find the menu generation functions in functions.php and actions.php (triggered from header.php). But since this looks like a heavily modified version of Suffusion you might as well find everything in header.php.

    WP 3.0 menus will not help here, BTW. They would have helped with the unchanged theme, though.

    Sayontan.

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