Hi everybody, total WP novice here.
A friend asked me to help him with something on his site.
He has this main, pinned-to-top title bar, with different sites categories whose have a drop-down menu, that is being displayed everywhere you go within the website.
From what I see and understand from the WP dashboard, the “Pages” tab is where are the different pages are you can navigate to, but this, sort of “main page” title navigational bar that’s on top of every page must be somewhere else.
I need to change one of the categories names in it, and the problem is to locate where that can be done.
Also, on the side – I see it’s na old, 4.9.3 version and update is available. Is it safe to update or whatever? Will the site have to be redesigned or rebuilt due to any big differences between the versions?
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WordPress needs to be kept up to date at all times. All previous versions have security vulnerabilities. If the WP files are that old, it’s likely the theme and plugins are also badly out of date – they need to be updated as well.
It sounds like you’re talking about the admin toolbar – which can be enabled/disabled by going to Users > Profile and ticking the “Toolbar” check box.
Any custom dev should be evaluated locally or on a staging server to see if you need to update any PHP. That’s a lot of versions ago. Be sure to test before updating any production environment.
Turn on debugging and logging but not output NOT ON PRODUCTION. Create a debug.log file inside of wp-content and use that to troubleshoot warnings and errors in any custom code.