wordpress menu

WordPress Menu

Click to go to Menu section

Login into WP and go to Dashboard

Enter a menu Name. I.e. Main Menu

Click to create the menu

To set as main menu click in the box and select the menu you just created.This will then become the main menu.

Press save to confirm the choice

Create a Home linkType in home page of website. If you are on Xampp then it will be localhoast/foldername of wordpress install/If using instant WP then the address is http://127.0.0.1:4001/wordpress/If online then it would be http://yoursitename

Title the page

Add to the menu

The home page now appears in the menu

Name of menu you are editing

Click to show the following information

Add a title such as Index, Your site home page, etc.

Save the changesNote: The top save button is for saving the menu name. You need to click this save to save changes to the actual menu.

Add a page to a menu

1) Select the pages

2) Add to Menu

Pages now in Menu

Click to show details

1) Add titles to menus

2) Click to hide info

Move mouse over menu. Left Click and hold and drag until the menu is indented from the one above.This will now make History a sub menu of News.

Save the changes

Add a Category

Select the categories to add to your menu

Click to add selected categories

Categories now appear in your menu.Click on arrow next to Category to add a title.

To make the F1 option a subcategory of Motoring click and hold the F1 menu and drag it so that it indents the motoring menu option

F1 option now indented and becomes a sub menu of Motoring.

Save Changes

View your menu on home page. Don’t forget to refresh the page to see your changes

Menus can be sub menus of a submenu! In the example above engines is a sub menu of f1 which is a submenu of Motoring.

Add a page, category, custom link and then hold menu option and indent below sub menu