Menu Styling Disappears When Setting "Front page displays" to Static Pages


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Michael

Posted: 11/5/2009
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Menu Styling Disappears When Setting "Front page displays" to Static Pages

When the Wordpress Settings > Reading > Front page displays setting is set to (the default) Your latest posts then the menus appear fine. When both Front page and Posts page are set to A static page the menu button styling disappears. Here is the rendered code for when the Home link menu appears correctly:
<li class="page_item page-item-48"><a href="http://www.taoistpath.com/taoism-path-home/" title="Home"><span class="l"></span><span class="r"></span><span class="t">Home</span></a></li>

and here's the home page link code for when the button styling disappears:
<li class="page_item page-item-48"><a href="http://www.taoistpath.com" title="Home">Home</a></li>

You can see the problem live right now by going to http://www.taoistpath.com. The menus are links in the top dark bar the same color as the background, not the styled buttons as defined by Artisteer.

This is the missing code that doesn't get to the page when I select static pages thus causing the menus to be simple links:
<span class="l"></span><span class="r"></span><span class="t">Home</span>

Is this something I can fix by changing code in the art_menu_items() function? I hope so as this site can't have the blog page as the home page.

Thanks for your help.
 
Michael

Posted: 11/5/2009
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I tried to be as specific as I can. Since this is a very normal configuration for Wordpress websites that don't have the blog as the home page I am sure there can be a fix for it.

Anyone have an idea? It would be much appreciated.
 
Garry

Posted: 11/5/2009
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Problem seems to be in your page.php which is not picking up styles from style sheet. Have you edited you page.php or added additional page template in your theme.
 
Marlene

Posted: 11/7/2009
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I believe I am having the same problem and I did not change my page.php or add additional page template in my theme. From HOME... if you go to "About Pauline" Page... the tab styling disappears.

Please check it out: www.dogvillage.info

Thanks!

 
Dave Porter

Posted: 11/8/2009
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Hi Pauline,

Not sure why this is happening, but to give you a clue where to start looking, the home page has:
class="active"
for the active page, but the other two pages are missing this.

HTH, Dave Porter
 
Marlene

Posted: 11/8/2009
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In WordPress... I deactivated the "Page Lists Plus" Plugin and Installed "Page Menu Editor" (so I could continue using "Home" in the menu vs. the actual title of the home page/post).

I also edited the functions.php to [ 'menu.showHome' => false,"].

I didn't have a problem with Page Lists Plus plugin before, maybe it is not compatible with the lastest version of Word Press or Artisteer Theme. If you have any more ideas... please let me know.
Thanks,
marlene
 
Bud

Posted: 11/8/2009
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If you're using "page_list_plus" you want to make sure that in the "Global Options", the only checkbox you want is "Unlink using javascript". If you just use "Unlink" you'll loose your styling on the menu.

Bud
budstechshed.com
 
Garry

Posted: 11/8/2009
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You should try disabling all of the installed pluging on your Wordpress installation.
 
TinkBD

Posted: 1/28/2010
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Quote Marlene:

In WordPress... I deactivated the "Page Lists Plus" Plugin and Installed "Page Menu Editor" (so I could continue using "Home" in the menu vs. the actual title of the home page/post).



FYI - I just installed the Page Menu Editor plugin and discovered that its functions are now included in the All in One SEO Plugin. Doh! LOLOL

I now have a static page with the menu Title of HOME, but I never would have gotten there without this Forum.

Thanks!

Tink