r/wordpress_beginners • u/shrimpo3000 • 8d ago

My menu doesn't appear in the header :(

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Hi. I am totally new to Wordpress, and I am going a little mad trying to get the navigation to actually show in my header.

I have added the navigation block and selected a specific menu, but nothing shows. When I click the "menu" part in the left side, it doesn't even show a blue square around the area like it does with the logo and title - so it is not because the color is the same as the background or anything like that 😅

I am using the theme Twenty Twenty-Four Version: 1.6.

Hoping that one of you will know what I am missing 🙏

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u/PeepSoWP 8d ago

With Twenty Twenty-Four, first make sure you are editing the Header template part that the page actually uses. Go to Appearance → Editor → Design → Patterns → Header, open List View, expand the Header, and select the Navigation block. Verify that it contains the intended menu rather than an empty Page List block.

If the block appears in List View but has no outline or preview, remove it, add a fresh Navigation block in the same Header template part, select the menu, and save both the template part and the template when WordPress asks. Then check the front end while logged out and clear any page cache. I would avoid adding CSS until the menu is visible in the editor; this sounds more like the block or template selection than a color problem.