Frequently Asked Questions:

Q: Can I change the title of “Archives” or “Categories” menus to something else?

Q: Can I change the title of “Archives” or “Categories” menus to something else?

A: Yes. To change the word “Archives” in your WordPress admin panel, go to “Design (’Presentation’ in WP 2.3 and earlier)” –> “Theme Editor”, and open the “topnav.php” file. Look for this line:

<li><a href="#">Archives</a>

Change the word “Archives” to whatever you want, like so:

<li><a href="#">Old Junk</a>

To change “Categories” to whatever you want, further down, look for this line:

<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&title_li=<a href="#">Categories</a>');?>

Change the word “Categories” like so:

<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&title_li=<a href="#">Types of Posts</a>'); ?>

Questions? Instead of emailing for support, leave a comment below so everyone can benefit from any clarification.

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19 Responses to “Q: Can I change the title of “Archives” or “Categories” menus to something else?”

  1. On September 3rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm amanda said:

    I was trying to highlight and rename a header from archives to “oldies” and accidentally deleted everything!!! Now everything’s gone! How can I get it back?

  2. On September 4th, 2008 at 5:35 am Jared said:

    @amanda: go back to the folder you downloaded when you purchased and copy the text from topnav.php back into your topnav.php file in your theme editor.

  3. On September 14th, 2008 at 11:52 am missshawna said:

    I have changed my top drop down categories to a different name called Projects but it still points to the categories. However, it only displays a few of them. I have parent categories and it displays three of those and then under one of them it displays the smaller categories too. How do I fix this?

  4. On September 15th, 2008 at 4:47 am Jared said:

    @missshawna: changing the name of the categories dropdown only changes the name of the top link, it will still list all your parent categories. right now, there is no way to display child categories (i think) in this simple dropdown.

  5. On October 19th, 2008 at 4:31 pm Julie North said:

    HI,
    I added a dropdown of my pages but I would like to change it to say Investment instead of pages. Is that possible? Thanks, Julie

  6. On October 20th, 2008 at 5:10 am Jared said:

    @Julie North: edit the line in your topnav.php that says this:

    <?php wp_list_pages('orderby=name&title_li=<a href="#">Pages</a>'); ?>

    make it say this:

    <?php wp_list_pages('orderby=name&title_li=<a href="#">Investment</a>'); ?>

  7. On November 18th, 2008 at 5:27 am Tanya said:

    Hi,

    I have been looking for an answer here and could not find it. I would love to make my pages available at the top of my blog ‘living’ by my links, archives, and website page. How can do this? Thanks.

  8. On November 18th, 2008 at 12:19 pm Jared said:

    @Tanya: from the FAQs: http://tinyurl.com/4k9hfk

  9. On November 21st, 2008 at 9:06 pm Tanya said:

    wow, that was easy. Thanks so much for your reply, Jared! Awesome!!

  10. On December 7th, 2008 at 3:25 am Jamie said:

    I am trying to change the “topnav.php” file but it does not give me an option to save my changes?

    Instead it says “You need to make this file writable before you can save your changes. See the Codex for more information.”??? HELP

  11. On December 7th, 2008 at 7:59 am Jared said:

    @Jamie: look in the FAQ page under “installation problems and error messages”

  12. On December 12th, 2008 at 12:24 pm Rebekah Towers said:

    How do I add a twitter box or square to my blog?

  13. On December 12th, 2008 at 4:45 pm Rebekah Towers said:

    How do I change the topnav tab that says “Pages”? I want it to say “Information” instead but when I change it it totally messes up my website.

  14. On December 13th, 2008 at 12:45 pm Jared said:

    @Rebekah Towers: i sent you an email.

  15. On January 2nd, 2009 at 3:32 pm Yvonne said:

    Hi, I deleted my search and archives also but the computer I had w/ my original file purchased download crashed so I can’t go back to it and repull the info from topnav.php any way you can help?

  16. On January 3rd, 2009 at 11:01 am admin said:

    @Yvonne: email me through the support tab and i’ll try to help

  17. On February 22nd, 2009 at 12:50 pm Jan Jones said:

    Jared,

    I want to add a top nav button for a page I created called ‘links’. I only want to link that button to my one links page. The links page is showing in the ‘footer’ but I want a click link at the top directly to it. How do I add the button to the top nav so it links to that one page?

    Thanks.

    Jan

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