Aedryan Methyus

Appearance > Menus is exactly where you go. Create whatever menus you want and add them to your custom menu then you click on them and drag them over to the right and they become dropdown menus.

Disregard! DUH! Sorry to have wasted space on the internet with that ridiculous post! lol

Fixed it with:

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~ Aedryan

Are you using the Chameleon theme too? I LOVE it!

Anyway… Dropdown menus are created automatically when you assign a page or categoriy to a “parent” page or category. All “child” pages are shown below parent pages in dropdown form. To assign a category to a parent category, log in to the WordPress Dashboard and click Posts > Categories. Choose a category and click “edit.” Locate the “Parent” dropdown menu and choose your parent category. The same method works for Pages.

It’s important to not that if you are using the Appearances > Menu system to manage your menu, then this method of creating dropdown menus does not apply. You must create your dropdown menus from within the Menu system.

I hope this helps.

~ Aedryan

(resolved)

Just for the sake of this possibly helping someone some day, I had my content area’s opacity set to 50 in my template’s CSS. As I said, it displayed fine in Firefox and Chrome, but it was dark gray in IE. I set the opacity to 98 and it now looks fine in IE…

So, is there any way to make the content background color look the same in IE as it does in Firefox and Chrome?

https://www.methyus.com/Hire-Magicians-Illusionists-Entertainment-And-Entertainers-For-Hire.php

*sigh* Well… Here is the newest issue… My theme’s blog page has a large slider at the top and a Quote Line 1 and Quote Line 2, which are supposed to reside beneath the slider. For some reason the slider is shifted down and it’s over top of the quote lines. Everything is setup identical to the way it is on my test installation, except for I now have a static front page assigned and the blog page is assigned as the posts page in settings/Reading Settings. That’s the only difference. I have tried deactivating every plugin one at a time to make sure there aren’t any conflicts with no success.

Can someone PLEASE help me out with this?

~ Aedryan

I resolved this issue by installing the Custom Permalinks plugin.

Just as an update, I went ahead and moved forward with installing WordPress in my root directory. I have my static front page all up and running with my existing site running, as I silently develop my WordPress site and convert my old pages in the background… Mission accomplished! >8>) The blog “homepage” question I had in my last post worked itself out as well. For some reason, when I assigned a blog page it automatically pulls up my template’s default homepage, exactly as I wanted.

I really would like to be clear on a couple of things regarding the static front page thing, though… Firstly, since the static front page and it’s content will not be stored in the database, it’s not going to cause any problems as far as my sitemaps and search engine spiders crawling my site, is it?

Thanks again for all of your help and suggestions, guys. It has been very much appreciated!

~ Aedryan

Sorry for all of the questions you guys, but I have yet another one. I’m pretty sure I have the whole static/splash front page thing figured out. However, I do still want my blog’s “homepage” (the default index.php page) to open when users click on a link to enter the blog section of my website as well. How would I go about doing that?

~ Aedryan

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Gotcha John! Thank you much! >8>)

Thanks a lot you guys! I really appreciate all of your help!

Govpatel… I didn’t realize I had to add all of the HRML/content directly in the file before I uploaded it. I had been trying to add content to the page from within WordPress admin. So… Since the content won’t be saved in the database, will my index.php page still be automatically added to my sitemaps or not? Any technical drawbacks to the page not being stored in the database?

John… I’m still trying to absorb your suggestions, but i’m thinking that might be the way to go once my WordPress site is ready to go live. What are the pros and cons of doing it this way versus the way i’m doing it now?

Thanks again. You guys are awesome!

~ Aedryan

Gotcha, John. Thanks a lot, bro! I’m still confused about what happens to URLs after the installation is moved to the root, though. For instance; Will all of my URLs just automatically change from https://www.domain.com/sub_directory/page.php to https://www.domain.com/page.php?

By the way, I have been leaning towards a different approach, which would alleviate all of these possibilities of things getting corrupted (if I can get it to work). If one of you guys could take a look at my most recent post at the following link, I would REALLY appreciate it:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/custom-page-template-wont-display-any-content?replies=2#post-2767123

Thanks again! >8>)

~ Aedryan

New Nine, are you still with me on this, bro? lol I’ve decided to go ahead and move forward with redeveloping my site with WordPress in the sub-directory it’s currently in then move the whole installation to my root once it’s ready to go live. I’m ready to start getting all of my navigation in order and I just need to be clear on what you said in the following comment:

The most important thing to remember as you develop your site in a different directory is not to use hardcoded URLs in the theme. Use site_url() instead so that, when you make the move, everything just works.

Can you please explain this a little further and give me some examples? I’m not sure what you mean by “hardcoded URLs” or by using “site_url()” instead…

Thanks again for your help.

~ Aedryan

Thanks a lot you guys. New Nine, what do you mean exactly by “use hardcoded URLs in the theme. Use site_url() instead so that, when you make the move, everything just works”? Could you please explain this in a little more detail and give me some examples?

Thanks again for your help. You guys are awesome!

~ Aedryan