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Thank you for the recommendation for Simple Press.

Works like a charm!

Don Milliken

Michael Oeser said:

I´m not sure if I get your point. You want to have the top menu set up like this

Home

Page1

Page2

Page…

Guestbook

To achive this you need to do something like this

<ul id=”nav” class=”clearfloat”>
<li><a href=”<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/” class=”on”>Home</a></li>
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>

<li><a href=”path-to-your-guestbook-page”>Guestbook</a></li>
</ul>

That will first display your “Home” Link followed by the Links of your static WP pages followed by a Link to your Guestbook

Thank you very much for your reply. I found the code at the bottom of the “header.php” file, and have amended it thus:

<ul id=”nav” class=”clearfloat”>
<li><a href=”<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/” class=”on”>Home</a></li>
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
<li><a href=”http://www.mentalhealthstrategist.com/news/Guestbook/”>Guestbook</a></li>
</ul>

Unfortunately, I am still doing something wrong. The url comes as a direct copy from the bb-press forum admin dashboard. When I type it into the address bar, I get to the forum, yet when I use it in the “Guestbook” button, as you suggest, I get an “Error 404, page not found” message. It doesn't seem to make any difference whether I put in the “www.” prefix or not, or add the “class=”on”" or not.

Ah well, I never thought this was going to be easy.

Two other comments: I have used the “Artist Page” as the first subpage in the “About” button. In the right column, I get a German comment, coming I think from the following code:

<?php
listposts(
“<h3>Mehr von diesem K&uuml;nstler</h3>”, // Titel der Auflistung
1, // ID der Kategorie
5 // Anzahl der anzuzeigenden Beitr?ge
);
?>

Unfortunately, going to school in Ireland in the 1950s, the only non-English languages we were taught were Gaelic, Latin(!) and French, so my German is challenged. Do you have a suggestion as to what I should change it to?

Finally, when I use the search function, entering “Advocacy” — one of my categories — I get my own Artist page self description returneing all the time. Before I re-write the page, using another template, is there a simple explanation.

Once again, thank you for your kindness in sharing the theme. If I am asking too many questions, or too simple ones, please tell me to stop.

Don Milliken

Your Website or Blog URL:
http://www.mentalhealthstrategist.com
Your themes version:
2.51
Your WP Version:2.51

Probably a very simple “how-to” question, but someone's answer might save me hours of study

I am trying to add a bb-press forum to my website for people to make less format comments and tell theri personal stories in. It is called “Guestbook”. I would like to have a one-click link to it, and I thought that having something like the “home” button would be suprt. If possible, I would try to put it at the right end of the navbar, in the hope that as the website developed, I could put more page links in between the “home” button and the “GuestbooK' one at the other end.

Looking at the html code, with Firebug, my current navbar shows the following:

<ul id=”nav” class=”clearfloat”>
<li><a href=”http://mentalhealthstrategist.com/news/” class=”on”>Home</a></li>
<li class=”page_item page-item-5″><a href=”http://mentalhealthstrategist.com/news/?page_id=5″ title=”About the Authors”>About the Authors</a>
<ul>
<li class=”page_item page-item-4″><a href=”http://mentalhealthstrategist.com/news/?page_id=4″ title=”Dr. Donald Milliken”>Dr. Donald Milliken</a></li>
</ul>

The minimal change I would like to make, that would, I think, let me have at least a button, even if in the wrong space, would be (simply copying the instructions for the “home” button to my “Guestbook” one),

<ul id=”nav” class=”clearfloat”>
<li><a href=”http://mentalhealthstrategist.com/news/” class=”on”>Home</a></li>
<li class=”page_item page-item-5″><a href=”http://mentalhealthstrategist.com/news/?page_id=5″ title=”About the Authors”>About the Authors</a>
<ul>
<li class=”page_item page-item-4″><a href=”http://mentalhealthstrategist.com/news/?page_id=4″ title=”Dr. Donald Milliken”>Dr. Donald Milliken</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://mentalhealthstrategist.com/news/Guestbook/” class=”on”>Guestbook</a></li>
</ul>

While that won't position the button at the end of the line, allowing other pages to be inserted in between, nevertheless it would allow it to function. I tried to soemhow make a page “Guestbook” with only the link, but that didn't work.

BUT, having diligently searched through all the php code that I can find, I cannot see where to make the changes, or how this can be done.

The other alternative would be to somehow position it just underneath the “search” box.

Assistance from anyone will bring positive waves of good thoughts every time I look at the site!

Don Milliken