Hide the menu on starter page

  • whisperingvoicerecords

    (@whisperingvoicerecords)


    4 years, 4 months ago

    I want the menu on the page you enter in to, gone. Not gone from the other pages, but only from the first page.

    I’ve read there is many css-styles, but none of them seem to work for. Or am I putting them in on the wrong place?

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by James Huff. Reason: redundant link removed

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • I want the menu on the page you enter in to, gone.

    Which is “the page you enter in to”? Is that the login page? (no menu there already)
    How would a visitor get to other pages?
    How would you know which page a visitor enters on?
    Trying to hide a bunch of links (menu) with CSS can cause search engines to think you are trying to trick them, so it’s better to do it so that the menu doesn’t exist at all (conditionally output). But you have to be sure that there is a way to navigate without the menu.

    Thread Starter whisperingvoicerecords

    (@whisperingvoicerecords)

    Ok, I should have explained better. ‘Log on’ was probably the wrong term. My startup-page is the one you enter in to. There’s a counter there now, but I will add an ‘Enter’ button when time comes, which will take you to the rest of my site. I need the meny for the rest of the site, but not for the first one, the first site you see when you enter my site, [ redundant link removed ]

    Did that make more sence?

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

    You didn’t use the term “Log on”; I did. I still don’t understand what you mean by “the page you enter in”. What you are calling your “startup-page” is simply the top level of the domain. It isn’t necessarily where people will land first on your site. And having no navigation on the top level page of your domain is not very good for SEO. It is what people used to do back in the early days of the web, called a “splash page”. It is confusing and pointless, for both humans and search engines, not to mention a waste of bandwidth for people to download the image and scripts for no benefit.

    Your menus are barely legible. If you use a page builder, you can probably fix it yourself, but otherwise you can make a child theme with a page template for the home page that does not output the menu.
    I still think it’s very bad User Experience, though.

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