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I have been trying to build a website with parent pages, and child pages under neath them. It doesnt matter what i do, whether i drag them as children under parents in the menu area of the admin panel, or i assign an attribute as shown above, i cannot get them to become children. all my pages are showig up in the main menu and it is driving me crazy. I have a template that supports cascading menus, but it does not work. i tested out the default template which supports cascading and it does not work. when i drag the pages to be children, it seems to hold, but as soon as i hit the menu save button, they revert back to parent pages. Any idea of what is going on, i am at the end of my wits with this. I thank you for any help you can give me.
Steffen
Hi Steffen,
Thanks for your comment. First I need to clarify my understanding of how you are currently creating your menus.
Are you creating them using the Custom Menus feature of WordPress? I think you are. This would be found at Appearance–>Menus. If this is correct, I have a hunch that your missing one critical step when you are creating and saving your menus.
Once you create a menu there, you must also choose the Theme Locations where you want that menu to display in your theme. Look at the upper left side of your menu screen and you should see a box named Theme Locations with a dropdown list of locations that this menu can be added within your theme (usually one or two choices)….then Save that choice.
Now on the front side of your site, your custom menu (with your chosen parent->child items) should show up as desired.
Note: It is possible that your theme may not support the WP custom menu feature. You will know this if the Theme Locations box isn’t in that menu screen.
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Hi Thank you for your reply,
Unfortunately it is not as simple as the solution you have stated above, i wish it were… For the first little while using the program, i didnt know about the feature, but once i learned the Theme Locations i thought i was as good as gold. It had worked perfectly for me for about a week, and then suddenly on friday it took on a mind of its own.
I thought it was a bad widget at first, so i deactivated all widgets and that didnt work. then i thought it was a bad install, so i installed wordpress ona fresh server with a new domain and still the same thing. then i thought it was the version, so instead of running 3.2.1 i ran 3.1. still no luck… I am so confused as to why it will not hold onto the parent child settings. even in the structure of the parentéchild it looks correct in the page layout, but will not hold on the site itself.
Toyally frustrated…
Steffen
I’m sorry to hear that Steffen. I’m a bit confused though because your parent/child pages seem to be working on the frontend of your site for me.
Have a look at this short video and tell me if you see the same or something different.
http://d2jy0j8o6zim2b.cloudfront.net/dgfinancial-dropdown-menus.mov
If you see something different, try viewing your site with another browser.
Have you activated ANY plugins recently? Please try deactivating ALL plugins and see if the problem persists. Also when you do this, try it with the default theme first (I know you tried before with this but tray again after deactivating all plugins).
Also, where did you get your theme from?