• I would like to create a home button in my NavBar. I would like to create a page with the permalink http://danielfinn.co.uk/. I currently have my website set to land on my blog at http://danielfinn.co.uk.

    At present I am doing this by creating a dummy page at http:danielfinn.co.uk/home and then using the ‘page links to’ plug-in to redirect it http:danielfinn.co.uk/. I did noticed that in the initial installation of WordPress you are given a Home tab that does link to the blog URL, however, I since deleted this.

    The reason I am concerned with this is because I am working on SEO for my site and have been told that redirecting pages may be unsuitable/ a bit of a hindrance on search-ability.

    Any help would be good!

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  • Thread Starter DanielFinn

    (@danielfinn)

    Thanks. I am still a little bit confused though. What I do not wish to do is to set up a static homepage and a seperate blog page. From what I have read on that article, it sound like I will have to go into wp_page_list template and create a HOME link in my NavBar. Am I correct in assuming this? If so, do you know if there is more material available on this subject? I have done a few searches, but not come up with much.

    Thread Starter DanielFinn

    (@danielfinn)

    I would like to have my blog roll as my homepage.

    Try setting up a custom menu.

    Thread Starter DanielFinn

    (@danielfinn)

    I am still experiencing one issue. The custom menu has worked for me in that I have been able to create a home button which links to my blog role, however, when I was solely using pages to fill my NavBar I had created an ABOUT parent item with several drop-down children. Now that I have switched to the custom menu approach my parent and children are all visible in a line. Is there a way to create parent/children using a custom menu? I can’t see this explained on the link you gave me.

    Thread Starter DanielFinn

    (@danielfinn)

    Thanks for all the help! I have resolved the parent/children issue. It was just a case of dragging the custom menu item to the right of the item above it on the edit panel..

    Thread Starter DanielFinn

    (@danielfinn)

    Actually, I have come across another issue. When I used pages in my NavBar I was able permalinks for children has their parent in. For example the permalink for the child ‘CV’, under the parent ‘ABOUT’ had the permalink danielfinn.co.uk/about/CV. Now that I am using custom menus, even though I have stated the CV is a child of ABOUT the child’s permalink omits the parent and is just danielfinn.co.uk/cv. Is their a way of remedying this?

    The only way I have come across so far is to create a page within dashboard/pages called about and making that the parent. This page then lies in dashobard/pages and does not do anything.

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