2 Wordpress Questions- Help

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I am sure this is going to be a couple of real easy questions that should be obvious to me, but I do not know the answer so I will ask...

I have set up a few wordpress sites for local small businesses.

I usually set up a sidebar with widgets and put the pages as well as the blog posts widget in the sidebar-

My question is this- how do I get there to be a "blog" link at the top of the page where the other page links show up?
I use free themes from leadcamp and am just starting to use artisteer.

My other question is- if I need to put in a privacy policy and terms page for legal stuff, can I put a link in the footer- how do I get to it easily and where do I put those pages so that they don't show up in the pages at the top of the page? I only want there to be a link at the bottom of the page...

Do I set them up as private pages or make a page on the domain but not at the wordpress site and just link to it?

Just not sure...

Thanks for helping this novice jump over another hurdle....

Mel
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  • Hello,

    It sounds like you just want to add another section to where your "Home" and "About" show up by default. If that's the case, you can add as many pages as you like, but clicking on the "Pages" tab near the top of your dashboard.

    As far as your privacy policies, there is a plugin to help with that. They have even updated it to be inclusive of Google's Adsense Privacy Policy, which requires information about Google use of cookies for displaying ads and how visitors can opt out of those cookies.

    Just search for the plugin through your dashboard, it's something simple like "privacy policy". Either way, that should yield enough results.

    I'm sure you could do it through coding as well, but that's an area with which I'm familiar (yet).

    Best of luck,
    Mike
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  • Hi Mel,

    Look at my site at Lessons with Babe — I Make Golf Easy! - and let me know if that kind of Menu Bar at the top is what you are looking for.

    I did the same thing at Granny Earth - and kept the legal section out of the menu bar.

    The menu bar, the way I am using the theme, shows the pages in it. I can have the menu bar NOT show specific pages, by idenifying thier number and entering it into the menu bar options menu.

    Hope that helps!

    Mr Twenty Twenty
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  • I'm not sure this is what you're looking for but I'll post this anyway.

    In our site, we only wanted to use the pages that we created as a "Top Level" page. We did not want child pages from the top level pages displayed in the menu.

    We also wanted to customize the front page and use an Page we created instead of using the standard Wordpress Posts page.

    Different first page
    In your admin settings, click on writing and there you can select a static page that people will see instead of your posts page.

    Menu with Top Level Posts only
    In the Dashboard under Appearance, click on the Editor and then select the Header file from the right hand side. At the location where you menu is, I have put the following code:

    Code:
    <div class="menu">
   <ul>
<?php $pages = wp_list_pages('depth=1&sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&echo=0');
$pages = preg_replace('%<a ([^>]+)>%U','<a $1><span>', $pages);
$pages = str_replace('</a>','</span></a>', $pages);
echo $pages; ?>
  </ul>
<? unset($pages); ?> 
</div>
    I am not sure this will work in all themes but with this statement you can set the depth to what ever level you desire. You might need to change the class in the DIV tag.

    I hope I haven't missed your point.

    Cheers,
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  • I have only just joined this forum but I think I can offer some help. On my site I have a Blogs menu item. This is simply another page that I then configure to show latest blogs. I have other pages that I hide by using this code in the header.php file:

    <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&exclude=2,164,815 ')?> This excludes page ids 2, 164, 815 from my menu.

    If you check out my footer I have menu links there too and I could eliminate any page from showing there using the same code line.

    To find out your page ID go to Pages, Edit in your admin screen and mouse over the page title. The url with page id will show in your status bar.

    Hope this helps
    Terence
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    2 Wordpress Questions- Help

    I am sure this is going to be a couple of real easy questions that should be obvious to me, but I do not know the answer so I will ask... I have set up a few wordpress sites for local small businesses.