1. My top nav menu is identical to the footer menu. What if I only want certain menu items on the top menu but all on the footer menu? 2. How can I put my blog archive/all posts as a menu item without making the front page static? 3. How can I put images in my footer? Do I need a footer widget?
This would depend on how your blog theme is constructed. e.g. if your navigation is showing your pages then it would be using the wp_list_pages coding in the theme files. Possibily they have used the same coding in the footer. In the sidebar list recent posts, categories or archives by year (I wouldn't do both). Is this along the lines of what you were thinking? Again, depending on how your theme was constructed, you put the coding in the footer.php file of your theme.
Different parts of the rendered page are in different files. Which files depends on the designer. Usually, if there is a sidebar the file for this section is called sidebar.php. The top navigation might be in the header.php file. Backup your theme to your computer via FTP before you start messing around editing the files, either offline and uploading or via the built-in theme editor in Wordpress. If ya mess up, you have the original to go back to.
OK, here is the bottom of my header.php - now how do I get it so only certain pages show on the top nav menu? <li><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>">Home</a></li> <li><?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?></li> </ul> </div>
Thanks, that helped alot. I am more on the right track however, I try to put this in the code above and I keep screwing up my top nav menu...where does this piece of code go based on my above code? <?php wp_list_pages('exclude=17,38' ); ?>
Look at the example below this one for guidance: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_pages#Exclude_Pages_from_List
I'll try to answer your question. 1.] For the top menu, try to open header.php, and look for wp_list_pages(). You can use either the include or exclude. 2.] I don't really understand your question. Do you want the blog archive/all posts on the main content or on the sidebar. Try to go to wordpress.org and search for the terms is_home() and is_front_page(). This will help you. 3.] If the theme provides you a footer widget then you can just use "Text" as the widget then put it on the footer widget section. But if there's no footer widget available, you can hard-code it on the footer.php I hope i helped
As for #2... What I mean is, I want in my nav menu lets say a item that says "posts". If clicked, it goes to a page with ALL my posts. But I want it in my nav menu as a choice.
LOL, no problem You can alwasy click the "Add to this user's reputation" if I helped you on any way Ahh ok i understand now. Well if you are new to wordpress or if you don't know how to edit wordpress templates yet then i strongly suggest that you use the front page/post page feature of wordpress. Or else you need to edit your index.php or add a new template.