I have a menu in Sharepoint. In that menu is a list of about 5 pages. When I go to these "sub" pages, I edit their properties and change their title. However, this also changes the link name in the menu which is undesirable since the client wants titles like "About us | Hey hey hey | etc" for SEO reasons. If anyone could help that'd be awesome. Thanks.
I'm assuming that your menu behavior is because you are using MOSS 2007 with publishing features enabled, and the Include Pages check box checked in your navigation settings (Site Actions -> Site Settings -> Manage Navigation).
If this is so, SharePoint automatically provides links for pages for use in your global and current navigation, giving you options to position the link or hide it, as you choose.
To have more flexibility with the presentation of the link, uncheck "Include Pages", and add links manually. The trade-off is the extra keystrokes for more flexibility.
I hope this helps.
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Made a wordpress website with the Astra theme and I want to remove a link from the header navigation because I only want my logo to be the link to the homepage. I haven't found any working solutions yet.
I have already looked through the backend of the theme and wordpress but I can't seem to find it anywhere. I also went through the code but that didn't get me anywhere either.
If you could take a screenshot of the specific link element that you are trying to remove that might help me understand better your situation to I can better assist you. That said, here are a few observations that might help you achieve what you are looking for.
From my end, when I install the Astra theme locally I only see two links in the navbar (header): 1) The Brand logo link (the link to the website's home page) on the left and 2) The "Sample Page" link to the only page (the default sample page) I have in my WordPress development website.
If what you are trying to do is remove page links in the navbar (header), then it looks like to me that the free version of this theme has relatively limited customization options and by default the navbar shows your published pages as navbar links (links on header area).
So as is, I think you have two quick options:
1) Disable the menu altogether, which will leave your navbar (header) with the Brand Logo link only. You can do that in the following way:
Go to:
Appearance -> Customize -> Layout -> Header -> Primary Header
Then..
Check off "Disable Menu" checkbox option. Then press the "Publish" button at the top to save this change.
From what I can see, this basically removes the navbar links on the right and leaves the Brand logo link to the website's homepage on the left only. This sounds like what you were trying to do although I am not entirely sure that is the best solution.
2) You can also simply be mindful of the way the free version of the them works with respect to the navbar (header), which, as I mentioned above, seems to display your published pages as navbar links. With that in mind, you should be able to influence what gets displayed as your navbar (header) links by adding/changing/removing your PAGES through the "Pages" from your WordPress Admin Dashboard menu. For example, in my case, if I wanted to remove the "Sample Page" navbar (header) link, all I need to do is remove or set the page visibility to "Private". You can do that like this:
Pages -> *Select Specific Page that comes up as navbar (header) link, in my case "Sample Page".
Then..
Press "Move to Trash" button. OR simply click "Public" next to where it says "Visibility" and then select "Private" from the drop-down. Make sure you save the changes to the page as per the usual page editing process.
I hope this helps you with your quest. And if this does not quite help you with what you were trying to achieve, please do add a screenshot so I can get a better idea of what you are looking to accomplish.
Cheers!
Arty
As a favor for a friend, I'm trying to add a quick Valentine's Ad for an article that is supposed to be appended to the top of their existing site starting... tomorrow. They have an existing site made by somebody they are no longer in contact with back in 2010 built with Drupal.
I don't know Drupal. The only information I have is a HostGator login that I'm currently using to send a backup zip to my email.
HostGator's File menu doesn't even show search results for the text I'm searching for on the main page where I'd put this.
I have no idea what I'm doing, basically. I'm comfortable as a web developer in general and figured "yeah I can add a thing to the top of your pages, sure." I can write that HTML quickly, but everything else... do I need Drupal installed, etc, and will that run with the backup that HostGator is gonna send me?
Any advice? I realize I'm an idiot for signing up for a favor like this last minute.
Ultimately I just need to add some pictures and some text.
Easiest way to achieve this would be creating custom block. Not sure what version of Drupal you use, but let's assume it's D7 (similar for other versions):
Go to Structure -> Blocks -> Add block
Enter your static content into "Block body" field. Change that field format to "full html" so drupal won't filter out some of your tags.
If you don't want Drupal's block title to appear in Block title field enter < none > (without space signs in between! - SO can't show it without spaces).
Save your block
Now go to Structure -> Blocks...your block should be visible in block list. You can find and edit it from there.
Theme site uses has "Regions" (something like sidebars). If want your block to appear with main content find your block and select "Content" region. Or any other you want.
At top of that page should be a link "Demonstrate block regions" - click it to see which region is where..
After selecting region you can click "configure" link for your block to precise in what conditions block should appear on page. Click it.
Scroll down and in right sidebar at bottom of configure page you'll see "Pages", "Content types"... it for selecting on what pages, on what content types...your block should be visible. Default is everywhere, so if you need this - use it.
Save block. If you didn't save on Structure -> Block after selecting region select region again and Save.
You can embed your CSS there, but you can also go to (usually): /sites/all/themes/your_theme/styles/style.css or something like that.
If you can't find CSS turn the caching off for a moment: Configuration -> Development -> Performance and inspect location of loaded CSS file(s) (use browser inspection tool).
Good luck!
This is more of a process question than coding. I have a custom homepage with logo, menu, footer similar to other pages. But there are few other contents which are different in the homepage, as usual, i.e, a title, a description div, a social links div and a few more, which are only in the home page.
Now the question is, since I want the admin to change this dynamically, how should I easily implement this for the site owner. Should I make a top-level menu named Homepage in WordPress dashboard and add all these meta boxes (with title, description, social fields) on that admin page so that he can fill this in from the back-end or make a custom post-type with the mentioned custom fields? Or should I add a menu under appearance with the relevant fields to be filled.
I am confused about the standard way. I am new to WordPress and just learning. This clarification will help me get a pre-idea. I completed the HTML and now converting the site to WordPress. Just give me a general overview please, nothing detail, I'll get the rest done. I would like to know the difference between the options mentioned above in a nut-shell (what is for what actually) and what is the standard way to add the custom home page fields for the site admin to input page contents easily.
Thanks in advance.
You would need to create a static front page.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
Basically you can create a standard page and then from wordpress customizer make that page a front page. Client will edit it from the back end just as any other standard page.
I am editing a previously set up company web site with Netsuite. I would appreciate any assistance provided on how to link a presentation sub-tab to the appropriate category/page. The problem is this: The categories were set up and working great until the previous designer deleted a category. I have since recreated this category (named the same as before) but the presentation sub-tab (side navigation on the home page) does not link to it. The sub-tab currently says the category is no longer available. I have made sure that the category is set up like all of the other functioning categories-this leads me to believe it is something to do with defining the path from the sub-tab to the new category, but I cannot find anywhere to change this. I see where to link the main tabs, but not the sub-tabs coming off them. Any suggestions welcomed.
have you checked the common.css? Is it just the image that is being shown there because the css is shown? I have seen an issue with our homepage slider where even though the record is set to inactive, it is still invoked unless commented out on the homepage template. If you cannot find the category image being listed in the CSS nor in the template, then check the custom tabs on your customization setup - it could be hidden there. Is your category an image/button or a linked text css property?
I have no experience in sharepoint at all but have been asked by a client to do a branding design of their sharepoint sites.
I have a question regarding a top navigation that will look something like this:
Home | Staff | IT | Organization
With subitems on f.x. IT like this
Manuals
Protocols
In a dropdown menu like suckerfish
There are one main entry page with three office pages
In a tree-view it will look like this:
Main
- Office 1
- Staff
- IT
- Manuals
- Protocols
- Organization
- Office 2
- Staff
- IT
- Manuals
- Protocols
- Organization
- Office 3
- Staff
- IT
- Manuals
- Protocols
- Organization
How can I achieve this specific request? Will I need to create subpages and subpages on subpages for the dropdowns or is there another way.
SharePoint handles the rendering of navigation for you, assuming that you want SharePoint to manage your navigation bar. There are quite a few caveats to allowing SharePoint to manage your navigation if you intent to brand it, mainly in how you set up your site structure. When it comes to branding, the primary problem you are going to encounter is that by default most of your primary static links (Staff, It and Organization) in your example will actually be on the second level in your nav list.
<ul>
<li><a href=”#”>Home</a>
<ul>
<li><a href=”#”>Staff</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>IT</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”> Organization </a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
SharePoint also adds a bunch of divs and classes that may cause something like SuckerFish issues. Most nav plugins I have worked with will attempt to hide any non-toplevel list items, so your nav bar would only show "Home" and not the rest, not exactly good.
The easiest way around this is to use static navigation. Update your custom master page with your own list for navigation, applying the proper class for whatnot for suckerfish and you get good to go. Problem is that you now have to update your master page each time you want to change your nav.
Next option is to use jquery to parse SharePoint’s rendering of your navigation, rebuild it in a suckerfish friendly way, and finally let suckerfish markup this. We have used this for quite a few customers because it’s quick and easy. You are throwing all of the heavy lifting to the client, and depending on how you build your html,css and js, there may be a flicker when the nav is being updated.
Third, the sledgehammer approach, hack the css and use jquery to add suckerfish like effects to your OOTB SP navigation. It is not the difficult although I do not find this elegent.
Fourth, create your own navigation web part that will render your sitemap in a way that you like. This would require knowledge of SharePoint and how to build a solid app. I would only recommend this for developers that are experienced with SharePoint.
I understand the desire to learn how to work with SharePoint, we all started with a request to branding SP for the first time from someone. The issue is that branding SharePoint is a very different skill than building a general site, modifying Joomla, WordPress, etc. You might find it much quicker to work with company that has the experience and knowledge of branding SharePoint so that it is done correctly. You could then use this knowledge for your next SP request.
I hope this helps.
First go to Site Settings >> Navigation (under look and feel)
add/remove the links under "global navigation" as required
Secondly edit your master page and add the following
<PublishingNavigation:PortalSiteMapDataSource ID="topSiteMap" runat="server" EnableViewState="false" SiteMapProvider="GlobalNavigation" StartFromCurrentNode="true" StartingNodeOffset="0" ShowStartingNode="false" TrimNonCurrentTypes="Heading"/>
<SharePoint:AspMenu ID="TopNavigationMenuV1" EncodeTitle="false" Runat="server" EnableViewState="false" DataSourceID="topSiteMap" AccessKey="<%$Resources:wss,navigation_accesskey%>" UseSimpleRendering="true" UseSeparateCss="false" Orientation="Horizontal" StaticDisplayLevels="2" MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="4" SkipLinkText="">
You can play with these properties as you want