1. Make sure you have pages named Archives and about listed in your Pages section. You may have to create them, and if so, see this post.
2. Get the page numbers, found in Manage-Pages.
3. Modify the header.php file to hardcode your links to the Archives and About pages. There are two lines in the header.php file (in wp-content/themes/Cutline 1.1 directory), around line 35-36, that say:
<li><a <?php if (is_archive() || is_page(’archives’)) echo(’class=”current” ‘); ?>href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>/archives/“>archives</a></li>
<li><a <?php if (is_page(’about’)) echo(’class=”current” ‘); ?>href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>/about/“>about</a></li>
You’ll need to change the part highlighted in bold to be your page_ids.
Result:
<li><a <?php if (is_archive() || is_page(’archives’)) echo(’class=”current” ‘); ?>href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>/?page_id=358“>archives</a></li>
<li><a <?php if (is_page(’about’)) echo(’class=”current” ‘); ?>href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>/?page_id=359“>about</a></li>
Keep in mind the actual numbers for your pages will be different than the 358 and 359 above.
3 responses so far ↓
1 About worked instantly, but I had to fiddle a bit to get Archives to work // May 28, 2007 at 11:52 pm
[…] Update: by the way, the creating a “Archives” page tip came courtesy of PaulThology. […]
2 Curt // Nov 2, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Paul
Can you please help me. I am at wits end.
1. I created an archive page. Read and followed all the tips.
http://cutline.tubetorial.com/why-dont-my-archives-and-about-links-work/
http://cutline.tubetorial.com/creating-archives-and-about-pages/
Including yours above.
I have a page called archive. But it isn’t an archive. It sort of looks like a page that you can add a text comment to…. but it doesn’t do that.
What else could be the problem?
Also I can’t even seem to be able to remove the Archive Link.
I really like this theme… if only I could get it working.
3 Mandelina // Oct 28, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Well written article.
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