[Resolved] Secondary menu still showing after disable

[Alexander]

Hi Tom,

I am using the disable option on the pages to not display my secondary menu. However on my posts page (BLOG) it still shows up even if I have it disabled.

http://www.ajnorfield.com is the website.

Alexander

[Alexander]

It seems that Blog page is not correctly refreshing or something. I still see the mailpoet newsletter subscribe widget on that page as well, while the plugin is currently deactivated…

At least in Firefox, as I do NOT see it in Chrome…

[Alexander]

Okay reactivated W3 cache and emptied all caches, now at least the newsletter etc. does not show anymore. However secondary menu is still there.

Seems to me because I make it the “posts” under the ‘set front page’ option it somehow ignores the disabled elements menu of the page created.

Alexander

[bdbrown]

I think you’re right. When set as the “Posts page” the main body class changes from “page” to “blog”. Probably something for Tom to review.

[Tom]

When a page is set as a blog, WordPress ignores all page specific meta – kind of annoying.

To hide the secondary navigation on your blog, use this CSS:

.blog .secondary-navigation {
    display: none;
}

[bdbrown]

Good to know. Thanks Tom 🙂

[Tom]

No problem! It’s the same reason we need a Blog Page Header options page, and a Blog Sidebar Layout option in the Customizer.

Let me know if that works for you or not Alexander 🙂

[Alexander]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the reply. As I am not fully familiar yet with editing the CSS directly I just wanted to double check which of the CSS files I should edit for that. I am currently using the GeneratePress Main theme and I thought I read somewhere I would first have to create a child theme for my site, as if I don’t the next theme update will overwrite my changes. Is that correct?

I can easily FTP into the site and access the CSS files, but there are plenty to choose from. 🙂

So do I need to go here: ../wp-content/themes/generatepress/css/ ?

Or somewhere else 🙂

I have not set the CSS to writing rights apparently as I can not edit the CSS directly from the wordpress dashboard.

Much appreciated!

Alexander

[Alexander]

Hi Tom,

Saw your signature link with adding CSS. Working on it ^_^.

Alexander

[Alexander]

Worked like a charm. Jetpack was still on the list to install and activate anyways. Used their custom CSS option to add those lines.

I would call this one solved 🙂

[Tom]

Glad it worked! 🙂

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