Comments on: Auto Create Navigation Tabs for New Pages

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:54:39 +0000

Hey Kyle, your best bet is to just hard code the homepage link in just before the code to pull in the rest of the nav.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:10:18 +0000

Hey John,
Thanks for the explanation and great theme.
But now i have what may be a very simple question.
I have the navigation tabs i need made for my pages, but now the “home” tab has dissappeared.
Since my home page is my blog, i cant figure a way to put the custom tag on it to make it a tab.

Any advice?

By: Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:28:42 +0000

Thanks John,
So agree with your SEO analysis; I posted a little seo enquiry on Elance and what those guys proposed scared me away forever! Their ‘techniques’ just adds mountains of ‘fluff’ to the already crowded web.

Starting up auto blogs pointing towards yours and harvesting links etc…sad. I’ll aim for good content and building relationships…sink or swim, I enjoy it, so I don’t much care which!
I so like your ‘this just in’ I’m bound to see you around John,
Stay well and thanks for making the time!
Ian

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:44:36 +0000

How on earth do you guys manage to learn all this stuff (and have a life!) before you die is beyond me!

That’s funny. For the first two years in this business I DIDN’T have a life! There’s definitely a lot to learn, but the good thing is there are a lot of great resources out there, especially when it comes to WordPress.

The one thing I’d suggest with regard to SEO is be careful who you take advice from, especially when it’s in a forum. In my experience a lot of people give advice on things they haven’t actually tried yet…they’re just regurgitating information they heard somewhere else. It’s hard to sift through what’s right and what’s wrong, but what I can say is learn as much as you can, try as much as you can to figure out what works, and remember who you’re taking advice from at all times.

Good luck!

By: Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:55:56 +0000

Thanks John! I am in the process of changing over to wordpress (and a noob!).

I LOVE wordpress and your theme is great, I admit I was a bit daunted by having to code the page headers but you must have explained it well because it works

I don’t regret learning basic html (before falling in love with wordpress) because it gave me the confidence to tackle this!

However, I have been studying: html, css, php, ftp, wordpress, e-commerce, internet marketing, seo, sem, linking strategies, writing copy etc etc and after a whole year I feel like I only have a broad overview!

How on earth do you guys manage to learn all this stuff (and have a life!) before you die is beyond me!

Learning the basics is a full time job for a 40 year old former builder!!

Hope to stick around though John,
Thanks again for the tutorial,
Stay well
Ian

By: James

James — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:08:33 +0000

thats awesome John, even I could follow and implement! Thanks!!

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:27:01 +0000

Glad I could help!

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:17:33 +0000

Hey Alex, start a thread in the forum and post the contents of your functions.php file there and I’ll take a look.

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:00:17 +0000

Yes, name and value are what I’m referring to there…it must have changed since I wrote that post. Are you getting any error messages when you try this?

By: John Higgins

John Higgins — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:25:59 +0000

Many thanks for this information. I’d spent hours trying to find a way of having tabs across thetop of the page and your explanation was easiest and it works. Fab!

Kind regards,

John