Genghis7777

@Kronos: That worked. Thanks.

Hi Jessy and mjones942

1. Thanks for trying to help.

2. You’re quite right, if you change float=left to float=right on the CSS and reverse the order on the menu dashboard you get them the right way around on the site and they are “right justified.”

3. Have a look at the dev site: http://cbs.thenewblack.dnserver.net.nz/. This is how it looks before making the above changes.

4. What I’m trying to do is use the sticky header plug-in by themato (https://wordpress.org/plugins/sticky-header/). If you scroll down so that the original header runs off the top of the page, you’ll see the sticky header appear.

5. You’ll also see that the sticky header menu items are also in the “right order.”

6. If you implement the changes in Para 2 above, you’ll find that the menu items on the theme’s header are arranged in the order we want, but you’ll find that the sticky header menu items will be in reverse order, mimicking exactly the order from the dashboard menu page.

7. I have only gone down this path because I wanted to implement within home page navigation. The trouble with within page anchors is that when you click the link to them, the place where the anchor is, is rendered as far up the page as possible. But when I made the original header sticky, it always obscured the content at the top of the page. I never solved that problem, so using this sticky plug-in and making it semi-transparent is my “plan B.”

Long story, but I hope that explains the situation.

To sum up,

a) How to align the primary nav items to the right (right justify) without having to reverse the order on the dashboard menu page; OR

b) How to implement a sticky header menu without it obscuring content at the top of the page.

TIA

You will also see that the menu items are also the right way around.

@Kronos:

Good points. I’m just an off the street kind of guy and what attracted to me to WordPress was that it appeared to me (rightly or wrongly) that it held out the premise that here was something that really could give users with no more than MS Word skills to build a website without having to learn PHP or HTML.

For me, after three websites, that’s proven to be the case. In each of those cases, everything I saw in the demo sites could be implemented without recourse to doing any coding. From what you say, I was probably very lucky.

However IMO a demo site <i>should</i> include everything that the theme can do “right out of the box” without any coding at all. I suppose you could include things that you might do with it if you knew how to code but then where does the theme promoter stop? Even if he did, it should be clearly stated which features being showcased come with the theme and which can only be implemented by doing your own coding.

I don’t think the Tutorial and code snippets therein should be considered to be part of the Theme’s promotional material. How many people read a car’s manual before buying a car and driving it out of the lot? You shouldn’t have to, nor should you have to read a theme’s tutorial before buying the theme.

So you see IMO in order to avoid being misleading, the theme promoter should refrain from showing anything that requires any code writing at all.

Just my 2c.

@TrishaM: Exactly what I was trying to say but you put it so much more clearly. 🙂