scorendesign

Thanks.

Great. Thanks. Looks good. I’ll give it a go.

I am using WP to redesign an existing site for a client.

I’d like the redesign, particularly the 2 menus, to be similar to https://gsmile.org/, which I designed a couple years ago, but which is (obviously!) not a WP site.

lf I know HTML and CSS, should I be able to figure out how to add and position a 2nd menu where I want, simply by creating/modifying styles via a Child Theme?

Or should I look for a theme that more closely mimics what I want to do?

Perfect. Thanks.

Think I figured it out.

On the Menus page, I went to the Custom Link widget and created a menu item link rather than a new page. I named it About Us, and linked it to the Mission page (which I want as the landing page for the About Us section). I added this link to my menu and then located the Mission, History, and Board/Staff pages under About Us as the submenu.

That works as I wanted – clicking About Us takes the user to the Missions page.

Assume that’s the way to do it.

Thanks.

Thanks.

WPyogi, I set up my menu.

I’m on the Menu page, choose the About Us menu item, click the Page down arrow to the right of About Us, a dialog box opens with options for Navigation Label, Title Attribute, Original, Remove, Cancel. But I don’t see the url.

Sorry, don’t think I’m in the right place – don’t see where I can change the url.

Maybe I can’t do this with Twenty Twelve?

Ah! Yes. Permalink Settings > Custom Structure. Once I changed that on one page, I see all pages now use that format and display the Edit button next to each pages permalink. Thanks.

Yes. Seeing the html, I feel much more comfortable! Thanks.

Thanks, both of you.

CB, yes – former approach is how I’m going to go. I tried using a couple embed-pdf plugins just to see how they worked, but they were less than elegant.

ccooks.org — they use separate email and web hosts.

Also, didn’t realize but you can edit the html of a page by turning off the visual editor. That might be helpful if I need an image map for this assignment. Maybe that’s not good practice?

Thanks.

OK, I’ve read the instructions.

Just want to be sure I’ve got the concept down, since I want my client’s existing site to continue working while I redesign the site on a separate server:

1. I go to the existing WP site and download all the WP files and the database to a folder on my computer named Old.

2. Go back to the existing WP site, change the url to point everything to the new development server; then download the WP files and database to a folder on my computer named New.

3. Then upload the original WP files and database (from the Old folder) to the existing site to restore the site to its pre-existing condition.

4. Then create a database on my development server; upload the WP files and database from my New folder to my development server. And begin redesign.

Sound right?

The Old and New sites will not be linked, they’ll operate independently? The Old site should continue working as it did, until I replace it with the new one (assume I’ll have to reverse the url)?

Great! Thank you.