In the WordPress admin there’s a section for creating pages and if you add a new one it should show up by default in the menu. If not then it’s possible your theme has been set up in a way that only shows certain pages. Hard to know though without being able to see the files directly.

If the above answers your question great. If not do you mind sharing a few more details of the problem. Maybe I can help without having to log in to your WordPress admin.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Using the subdomain is actually a temporary thing for me (I’m playing with my template on the subdomain until I get it right, at which point I will copy it over to the root), but I thought someone else might need to know that. Your fixes sound great!

I’m not sure if the subdomain will still be an issue, but it’s worth trying.

One other thing you can try is using is_page(). You can add a either the post id inside or the page slug. So if your home page is called home and uses home as the page slug you could try

is_page(‘home’)

which should match the home page. If the id of that page was 3 you could also write it

is_page(‘3′)

Hopefully one of the above conditionals will work on the subdomain.

<ul id=”nav”></ul>

The id gives you a hook into the menu. Now you can style:

#nav
#nav li
#nav li ul
#nav li li
#nav li ul li

Looking at the last line of css above, it’s saying to find any list-item inside an unordered list that’s inside a list-item that’s inside an element with an id=”nav”

The line above it without the ul will target the same thing.

That’s the second level of the drop down, but you could extend it further to target a third or 4th level. You don’t necessarily have a hook directly to the item you want, but you have a hook into the containing div.

wp_list_pages() does product some hooks of its own for example “page-item” and “page-item-#” That won’t distinguish between the 1st level and 3rd level of the drop down, but they’re still useful.

I hope that makes sense. If not let me know and I’ll try again.

I actually have a post written that’s an introduction to using css. I’m holding back, because I thought it was too basic, but I’m thinking it may be worth posting, since we’re all at different levels of understanding about css.

how do you tell the CSS which part of the php’s results it’s supposed to affect? If the php for WordPress tells it to “print” three levels of pages, how do you differentiate, in the CSS, between the first level and the second and/or third levels? (In other words, I understand how the CSS would be used to create a drop-down menu with plain HTML, but I’m not getting how that “translates” to the use of the wp_list_pages element, since you can’t hard code an ID or anything into the nested list, to tell the CSS whether its working with the top-level or a sub-item.)

I’ve been reading and reading trying to wrap my head around this, and it is just not clicking.