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Hi

I appreciate you are busy but I have had to find another menu option.

Thanks anyway

Simos

Hi Benjamin,

I hope you are well.

Today I was able to reinstall the AP mega menu plugin and by following the tutorials

As I mentioned I am using the siteorigin advantage theme and just installed the AP Mega menu plugin

I followed the installation and created a horizontal video tutorials and 2 strange things are happening

1- a second row is been created under the horizontal menu with the word “Menu” in red. you click it and a simple menu in black background is shown?

2 – I created a blog option with 4 posts as per your tutorial. When I hover on the Blog option a transparent background appears but not the posts or anything??

My website is https://www.querida.co.uk can you assist?

I will not work on the menu and wait for any feedback.

many thanks in advance for your support.

Simos

Hi Benjamin,

Following on from my last.
I uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin to see if I had made any errors.
I tried to follow your youtube vidos but I am using Siteorigin advantage theme and not being an expert on CSS got a bit confused as I cannot create another menu location in that theme.

I therefore just used the default menu for its location.
I got confused as a menu option called “Menu” appeared that when clicked on when to a page that listed the pages available???
I could not find a way to remove this option.

In the end I have deactivated and removed the plugin so I can research more to find out whats wrong.

My first question is around the Vantage theme and CSS for the location.
(a) does this theme support the plugin? (B) does creating the other location really matter?

I do think this is a great plugin and would love to use it so I do have my fingers crossed.

Cheers

Simos

Hi Benjamin,

My apologies as I didn’t think you would be working over the Bank Holiday (UK)
I will activate it over the next 20 minutes

Simos

Hi John

as ever many thanks for your help.

https://siteorigin.com/focus-documentation/focus-post-loops/
the above is a link to see how the post loop works.

I wish I could send you a screen shot of the fields under the “Posts” tab (tab actually says “Post Types”) as there are no heading for a “Root Page” settings?

There is a “Post Hierarchy” which I had set to “category” to show the “Blog/vacancies” elements in the breadcrumb.

I changed this to both “tags” and “posts parent” but this only show the Root name i.e. chatnsurf (home page) and the post name in the bread crumb. This is OK but obviously only allows me to go back to the chatnsurf home page. To get around this I have inserted an icon; hyperlinked to the blog / vacancy page as required.

I understand the solution you mention but think that the siteorigin post loop will not allow it, also my issue with your root page?

Again many thanks as it is a great plugin which to use I may have to use the workround I mentioned. ??

Simos

Hi John

Thanks for the reply.

as an experimental newbie I am digesting your info so please bear with me. ??

On the vacancies page the siteorgin Post loop filters by categories? there is a selection box in the build post query to select pages but not filter by type?

I cannot find the “root page” setting in Breadcrumb Navxt?

I don’t suppose there is a tutorial.. ??

Again very grateful.
Simos

Further to my last,

I have discovered that when the breadcumb shows the “News” link the Alttext shows it linked to the relevant Category archive.

[thinking out loud]
I suppose it depends if the code for that element can be amended to direct to the correct page.

However as I am using siteorigin post widgets to control what posts are shown; I have a news blog and a vacancies post pages, then it gets more complicated.

To visually see what I mean:
select https://chatnsurf.co.uk/blog then a post and then select news in the breadcrumb.

select https://chatnsurf.co.uk/Vacancies then a vacancy post then select vacancies in the breadcrumb.

You will see that both examples return you back to the relevant category archive page.

Hope this makes sense.

Cheers
Simos

Hi John,

Many thanks for the reply and I am sorry for my slow response.

I already have actioned as you describe for the front page, however when I set the post page to “my built” blog page it overwrites the theme elements I have built in; as you mention, so changes the structure of that element of the sites design. ??

As I cannot seem to edit the wordpress News or Blog default pages I will have to have a rethink on the need for the breadcrumb / present design. ??

What a life when you are learning :):)

Simos

Hi John,

First many thanks for your reply I am a newbie to wordpress etc so if I have misunderstood anything it is down to my trying to learn.

Under settings I cannot see where you set the front page?
Within the vantage theme I ensured that the “Home” page is pointing to the correct page as not a static front page.

Additional within Vantage I do not set the “blog” page as this disrupts where posts are shown as I am using a Siteorigin plugin to restrict posts displayed by page relevant categories. https://www.chatnsurf.co.uk is my experimental site so browsing the pages you see what I mean; hopefully ??

I basically understand your meaning for the network/multisite mode.

Regards
Simos

Further to the above, all I am trying to achieve is that the breadcrumb shows “blog” not “news” and so redirects to my “blog” page not the “news” page