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WordPress, navbar, and images?
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I am looking to create a website/blog using wordpress and while I understand the basics of using wordpress, I don’t know everything and have a question. Is it possible to create a navbar that either contains images as the buttons, or an interesting and graphical font used as buttons? If so, how? Like could I design a navbar in photoshop, make hotspots in fireworks and then somehow use it as my navbar in wordpress? Or is there a simpler way of doing this? Thanks!
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Answer by Windowphobe
It’s doable, but you can’t use any of the cute WordPress shortcuts for producing navbars: you’ll have to code it in good old HTML and paste into the template. Fortunately, WP and HTML coexist nicely if you stick to a single stylesheet and don’t get your DIVs out of order.
NOTE: More tutorials at mcbuzz.wordpress.com This beginner-level WordPress Tutorial by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications shows how to make a “static” WordPress page your Home page (also called a “front page“), and how to hide the second Home page link that sometimes appears in your site navigation when you make that static page a Home page. By default, a WordPress website displays the blog page on the home front page. For example, when you go to the Business Blogging 101 website at mcbuzz.wordpress.com you see blog posts with the most recent post at the top of the page and earlier posts below that. WordPress allows you to select a different page as your home page, so that you can display more traditional content like information about yourself or your business. You can also create another page to use as your blog page, with a link to that page in your site navigation. Watch this tutorial to see how to do this. One problem you may run into when you make a static page your home page is that the link to that page now appears in the main site navigation, so that you have two links to the same page – usually the page called “Home”. The second part of this tutorial shows how to remove one of those links from your site navigation so that visitors to your site are not confused by the duplicate link.
WordPress Tutorial – Make a Static Page Your Home/Front Page
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NOTE: Updated tutorial at bit.ly for WordPress version 2.7. This Beginner-level WordPress Tutorial by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications shows you how to make a static WordPress Page your home page (also called “front” page). The default WordPress home page in most themes shows the chronological blog post entries with the most recent post at the top. You can create a static page using the Dashboard – Write – Page, and then tell WordPress to use that page as your home page (using Options – Reading – Front Page). This WordPress tutorial also shows you how to change the order of page navigation tabs or links.
How to Add Header Image to WordPress theme?
Posted by: | Commentswordpress theme Question: How to Add Header Image to WordPress theme?
I need to add an image above the menu for this theme
http://www.8bitmix.com/angeldreamsphotography/
But i can not Figure it out for this Theme does anyone haev any experience with the Reflection WordPress Theme
http://photoblog.xyloid.org/
Best Response:
Answer by j k
Try asking on the theme creator’s forum:
http://xyloid.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4
This Beginner-level WordPress Tutorial shows how to make a “Back to Top” link that you can insert at the bottom of a Page or Post – or in the middle of a long Page or Post – that takes you back to the top of the page when you click on it. This tutorial shows the easy way to create a “Back to Top” link. There is an advanced way that is covered in a separate tutorial. The advanced way takes you to the top of the page faster than the easy way because it works without reloading (refreshing) the page. But the advanced method involves adding a bit of HTML to the header.php text file in the WordPress theme, so you cannot use the advanced method on wordpress.com sites.
WordPress Tutorial – Make Menus of Links With the Blogroll 2
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This Beginner-level WordPress Tutorial is the second of two parts about how to create lists or menus of links using the Blogroll. These menus usually appear in the sidebar of a WordPress page or post. In this second part of this tutorial, I show how you can make lists of links to pages or posts within your own website or blog. This is a handy way to create additional navigation within your site given that WordPress themes often have a limited amount of space for main page navigation (About Us, Contact Us, etc.). -by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications
WordPress Tutorial – Make Static Page Your Home Page -Part 2
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NOTE: If you have watched Part 1, you can skip the first five minutes of this tutorial. Just click on and drag the time slide bar to the 5 minute mark. This Beginner-level WordPress tutorial is a follow-up to “WordPress Tutorial – Make a Static Page Your Home/Front Page”. It reviews the method of making a specific page your home page in WordPress, and it shows how to remove the link to that page from the main navigation. This is something you may need to do if the WordPress theme has a default “Home” button or link in the main navigation. Note that there is a Part 3 of this tutorial that shows another way to solve the problem of hiding the link the static page you use as your home page: “WordPress Tutorial – Make Static Page Your Home Page – Part 3″. Not all WordPress themes have this feature of a default home page link in the navigation, but several of the WordPress themes offered on wordpress.com do. This tutorial also talks about the fact that some themes have navigation in the sidebar that shows links to subpages and “subsub” pages – ie “child” pages that have other pages as “parents”. There is a separate mcbuzzvideo tutorial that shows how to create “child” or sub-pages in WordPress if you would like to learn more.
