PAGE 1 – How to Create a Drop Down Menu

PAGE 2 – What do thePages and Posts SEO Details mean

PAGE 3 – Explanation of the Meta Tags in the All In One SEO Pack

PAGE 4 – Which Meta Tags should you fill in and which ones stay blank

In this Part 2 of my training tutorial called The Basics of WordPress, I will first be explaining how to create a drop down menu for your website pages and then I will explain about different aspects of the All In One SEO Pack.

CREATING A DROP DOWN MENU

The first thing to do is create the page you want in the drop down menu. You would do this like every other page you create, except there is one extra step before clicking on the Blue Publish button. This is an important step if you want to create the drop down menu.

In the picture above you will see the Page Attribute section on the right side of the WordPress editor. This is how it should look when not creating a drop down menu. For this example I will be creating a page called “How to Start a Home Internet Business” and I will have it be in a drop down menu off of my “Getting Started” page.

So before I go and click on Publish I want to go to the Page Attribute section and change the field that says No Parent to my Getting Started page, as seen in the above image. The Parent Page is always the page at the very top of the drop down menu. Once I have that set, I will go ahead and click Publish.

Then I will immediately go to my WordPress dashboard and in the left side menu I will point to the word “Appearance” and then in the pop up menu I will click on “Menus” which will display my Menu Structure screen. On the left side of that screen will be a listing of the most recently added Pages, see image below.

I check the box next to my newly published page and I click on “Add to Menu” which will place it at the very bottom of all pages I have saved to my Menu Structure. I then go to the very bottom of my Menu Structure, which is immediately to the right, and click/hold/drag my new page up under the “Getting Started” Parent Page.

Before I release the mouse button I will slightly indent the placement of the page to the right of the Parent Page. All pages that appear in the drop down should be slightly indented to the right of the Parent Page as seen in the below image.

Then once the page has been placed in the position you desire, whether it be first, second, or whichever order under the Parent Page, you will click on “Save Menu” and then go to your website and refresh the page. Your page should now appear in the drop down menu, see below image.

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SQUIRRELL Premium
As usual you start a tutorial on something I am working, you are psychic.

I would like to know how to create a drop down menu for my pages with a category title that does not have a page relating to the actual title.

Thanks I hope I make sense :O))
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boomergp08 Premium
You would have to create a custom menu and then use the # hashtag feature that Kyle explains about in his training video at the below link.
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gomohr Premium
Great explanation once again. Sweet and to the point, easy to follow.
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boomergp08 Premium
Thank you Jerry. It seems I am on a roll lately with the training tutorials. I am currently gathering information on another big one...best ways to use Google+ for social media marketing.
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gomohr Premium
Cool. I will look forward to it. I am starting to use Facebook, Pinterest and even Twitter which I never had any desire to use.
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boomergp08 Premium
Many people have no desire to use social media but it is necessary nowadays if you want to get traffic to your website.
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Wedge910 Premium
Excellent information! Keep it up!
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boomergp08 Premium
Thank you George! I definitely will.
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Mark1957 Premium
Thanks for the training again Robert, going to put it with my part 1 and read them together.
Mark
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome Mark. Happy reading. :)
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jvranjes Premium
Hi Robert, I do not see the purpose of the step in Page Attribute. I never do it. Once in the Menu I just drag and drop under parent page as you do, so this step just looks redundant. Is there some purpose of it that I do not know?
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boomergp08 Premium
This is the way I was taught when I first started here. It is an added step that contributes to better UX and organization of the link hierarchy.

Some on the WordPress forums claim that it helps with SEO and some say it doesn't. Perhaps this is a coincidence but all 9 of my Google Page 1 pages were created this way.

It also helps for the creation of drop downs with themes that do not support custom menus. Nathaniell did a video training about it as well.
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jvranjes Premium
OK, then perhaps I should do the same. I shall have a look at this video. Thank a lot.
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jvranjes Premium
In fact, I missed to add; if something works so well as you mentioned, you would be fool to change anything, just keep going the same way. Thanks again.
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome. I am not someone who changes anything if what I am doing is working. My moto... If it is not broken then don't fix it.
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