In the last tutorial I demonstrated how to
create Pages in WordPress, and I illustrated
how those pages, by default, appear in the
top primary menu in your WordPress theme.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how
to create a custom menu.
Let's return to the dashboard and under the
"Appearance" option in the toolbar, we'll
select "Menus" from the flyout.
When our Menus area opens, you'll notice that
we don't have any menus.
Again, the default setting inWordPress is
to add new pages to the top primary menu.
We want to first create our new menu and we
can add in our menu name here.
I'll title this "Main Menu" and the next step
is to click on the "Create Menu" button off
to the side of the page.
Before we add pages to this menu, there are
a few menu settings for us to consider.
First, we're going to automatically add new
top-level pages to this menu.
We'll also put this in the top primary menu
position in the theme that we're using.
These settings mean that each page that we
add will be added to the top primary menu
automatically.
Next, let's select two pages we created in
the previous tutorial and click on the "Add
to menu" button.
These pages are now featured in our menu structure
and we can drag and drop if we'd like one
page, or one menu before the other.
We can always return to this menu and edit
the menu structure, but for now we'll click
on the "Save Menu" button so the menu is saved
and we'll return to the front end of our site
and refresh the page.
The only real change that we'll is that the
Welcome to Guitar Central page now appears
before the Guitar Central Blog page and that's
because that's the way we defined it in the
menu structure.
In the next tutorial I'll demonstrate how
pages are organized in parent/child relationships
and we'll do this by creating sub pages or
drop down pages and menu items.
