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Never mind, I just found out that Libre 2 does allow for the text to go the full length of the screen.

Does anyone know if Libre 2 allows for the text to go the full length of the screen rather than having an area reserved for a sidebar?

How can it be retired if WordPress is still offering it to new users? It was one of the first choices that popped up when I chose Themes from the WordPress Dashboard when I started setting up my site last week.

I tried the Responsive Menu plugin. It works but I will have to upgrade to the paid version or try another plugin to get the menu along the top of the page.

Thanks,
Stuart

My site has a menu in the sidebar but I believe I can’t create a menu anything like what is on your page, Genna.

I was referring to the menu shown horizontally along the top of the page here with the two drop down sub-menus under Blog and Travel. I can’t do anything like that with my theme.

Thank you, Gemma.

I know I can create menus but they are very basic, as you can see in the right sidebar on my page. They are nothing like the menus on your blog page.

Yes, that worked. Thank you.

Is there a way that I can make the words Topic 1 and Topic 2 in the sidebar menu not link to a page? I just want them to be text only with no link.

https://www.christianityapplied.org/

Thank you, Joy.

I didn’t know there were support forums for the individual themes and I have now posted in the Libre forum.

I’ve been trying to create a better menu with a plugin called Max Menu but so far I haven’t been able to get it to do anything. I might have to try a different plug in. If you know a good one for menus, please let me know.

Thank you, Joy.

Do you know if there is a way to eliminate the horizontal menu along the top of the page? That is built into the theme but I haven’t found a way to turn it off.

I added a navigation menu to the sidebar and figured out how to have a sub-menu under the top level pages. Is there an option to make the sub-menu a drop-down menu that only appears when the first level option is clicked? As it is now, the second level menu shows all the time.

https://www.christianityapplied.org/

Thank you again for the advice, Joy.

What I really need is a website with static pages, rather than a blog, because my articles will not be time-sensitive and I don’t want them to appear in a chronological order according to when they were posted. The theme I have now is set up in a blog format and I’m wondering if I can modify it fairly easily to differ from that or if I should use another template, perhaps even a non-Wordpress template.

I know I can add static pages to what I now have, and place my articles on separate static pages instead of posting them as blog updates. Do you know if there is a limit to the number of static pages I can add? I might eventually need over a hundred.

Also, can I delete or hide the blog completely? I know that WordPress is primarily a blog platform but a blog is not something that I need.

All I really want is a simple and clean looking site with menu choices down one side of the page, with the option of creating sub-menus within the top level menu, and maybe even a second layer of sub-menus under the first level of sub-menus.

Even though I don’t like the look of this site, it’s an example of what I really need with a menu down one side and a sub-menu when you click on Authors within the top level menu: https://www.truecovenanter.com/

Stuart

Thanks for your advice, Joy.

I now see how it works. You have to import plugins to make WordPress do simple things that it already should be able to do, and if that doesn’t work, then you have to manually modify the code, which also might not work until you download another plugin and try again.

For example, I wanted to NOT have the author name and the date of posting appear next to my posts. A reasonable request, I thought, but there’s no option for it in WordPress as it is (which is astounding to me), so I searched the Internet for options and someone recommended a plugin called “WP Meta and Date Remover” which has plenty of good reviews and claims to “remove meta information such as author and date from posts and pages”. I downloaded it, activated it, checked all the right boxes, cleared the cache on my browser and reopened it, tested it from two other browsers, and guess what? It didn’t change anything, so then I had to try to modify the code.

I searched the Internet again for how to manually change the code and found an article that had some html code I copied and pasted into the site editor. But, of course, that didn’t change anything either, even though I tried it in two different style sheets.

The same article gave me another method for accomplishing this seemingly simple task which is deleting a line of code. However, that line of code was nowhere to be found in the body of code that I have.

Then I search again and find a YouTube video that shows me how to modify the code using another plugin and gives me the code that I need to enter. I load the plugin, activate it, and enter the code. This time it works.

Is it typical for one to go through this convoluted, time-consuming process to make what should be simple changes in the appearance of a WordPress site?

“What you described is all about WordPress, not the theme.”

Not sure what that means. It seems that the theme I chose can’t be made to do what I need it to do without custom modifications (coding) which I don’t know how to do.