{"id":1942,"date":"2012-01-06T21:46:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T02:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mighty-little-websites.com\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2020-03-22T23:59:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T03:59:05","slug":"work-with-menus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mighty-little-websites.com\/work-with-menus\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Work with Menus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each visual theme has specific places in the layout where navigation menus can appear. We switched on your site with a sample menu set in the primary placeholder for your selected template.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->When you have enough Pages and Posts that you feel you&#8217;re ready to launch your site, you&#8217;ll want to edit your menu to give your visitors access to all that lovely content. In general, you&#8217;ll want each Page you&#8217;ve written to have its own unique link placed by hand, by you, somewhere in your navigational menu(s).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Posts<\/strong>, on the other hand, are often handled by WordPress in a more aggregated fashion &#8212; you&#8217;ll write a series of Posts all assigned to a common Category, then add a menu link that points to that Category as a whole (where visitors will see introductory stubs to each Post in that Category).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.support.wordpress.com\/post-vs-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Posts vs. Pages<\/a> from WordPress.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s modify your first menu. Go to &#8216;Appearance&#8217; \/ &#8216;Menus&#8217;, and take a quick get-familiar look around this screen. At the right, you&#8217;ll see your Menu building pane. Your site comes out of the box with one menu (called &#8216;Main&#8217;) built. If you wanted to add a menu you&#8217;d click the little &#8216;+&#8217; button-tab at the top of this pane.<\/p>\n<p>The column to the left of the menu building pane holds the Theme Location meta-box (where you choose a place in your pages&#8217; layout for your menu(s) &#8211; many themes have only one menu place) stacked at its top. If your Main menu isn&#8217;t already assigned to the primary location for your chosen them, select it from the Primary dropdown then click the little blue &#8216;Save&#8217; pill now.<\/p>\n<p>The Theme Location box is followed by meta-boxes for adding Custom Links, Pages, and Categories (for categories of posts). Let&#8217;s skip custom links for now, and \u00a0concentrate on adding pages and posts to your menu.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve written a few &#8216;how-to&#8217; articles (as Pages). Because you&#8217;ve worked with them recently, they&#8217;ll show near the top of your listing of available Pages. Check the checkboxes of all pages you wish added to your menu, then click the gray &#8216;Add to Menu&#8217; button at the bottom of the &#8216;Pages&#8217; meta-box. Notice that as soon as you do, the pages you selected appear as new menu items in the right-hand menu builder. Don&#8217;t want &#8217;em at the end of your navigation menu? Simply drag and drop any menu item to a new position in your menu&#8217;s order.<\/p>\n<p>Would you like a bunch of menu items to appear as drop-down, submenu items under one master navigation tab (like your hypothetical &#8216;how-to&#8217; articles)? Simply group them together under their parent menu item, then drag each of them to the right until they click into place indented one level rightward. Voila! Nested submenu items.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;ve written a series of weekly Posts on the topic of French Film. You&#8217;ll have assigned each of these posts the Category &#8216;French Film&#8217;, which would now appear within the &#8216;Categories&#8217; meta-box. When you check that category&#8217;s checkbox, then click the &#8216;Add to Menu&#8217; gray pill, that category will get added to your current menu, just like pages did.<\/p>\n<p>When your menu includes all the content you want your visitors to have access to in your navigation, click the blue &#8216;Save Menu&#8217; pill button (at the top or bottom of the menu builder meta-box) and your changes will be saved and published to your site.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For more in-depth info, read WordPress.org&#8217;s article on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/article\/appearance-menus-screen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">working with custom menus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each visual theme has specific places in the layout where navigation menus can appear. 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