As usual, log into your dashboard. Click on the appearance button after which you can select the menu

It will take you to the platform where we can create a menu and manage it. The first thing is to give the menu a name. In front of the menu name, you can assign it a name. I always prefer a name that associates with the position of the menu.

You can call it Top menu, Header menu e t c. Now click the create menu Icon.

Your menu platform should open and should be something like the image below here I have called mine menu 1

You should see a tab tagged “Add Menu Items”, this contains a list of the pages you have created on your website. Select the pages you want to appear on your menu. Since we are on our header menu, you can select pages like Home, Blog, About, contact us, etc.

After you have completed the selection, click on the Add to Menu icon. You will see your menu items listed in a vertical position. Not to worry they will appear horizontally on your website. Simply by moving each of the items you can properly position them the way you want.

And

  1. While in image one I moved the contact us page slightly to the right, it is not aligned with the home page and the blog page. This shows that the contact us page is a sub-menu.
  2. In the second image, I have returned the contact us page to the same alignment with both the blog and home page. This shows they are all at the same level, also there was a change in position.

Note: all this occurred just by dragging the buttons in my dashboard. You can play around with it and see how it works. Quiet simple

The next thing is to select the location where your menu will be displayed. Look below your page and you will see a list of position tagged Menu Settings depending on your them. For the header menu, simply pick on the primary menu.



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Hi Owoeye, thank you for sharing this lesson. A great guide.

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Thank you Michael,

I am glad you found it useful

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JKulk1 Premium
This is not only great for newbies, but a fantastic refresher course for those of us that have been here a while. Jim
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Thank you. This is a path on my back to do more

Ayodeji
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CCelest Premium
Great training. Just wondering, what are the benefits of pages?
Carol
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siamjerry Premium
Pages contrary to posts, are static and contain more general information such as About you, privacy policy etc. Posts will be alive, can change, have comments, will be updated and are all relevant to your niche only.
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CCelest Premium
Thanks for the great reply Georg. If I understood you correctly pages can be for broad overview of a subject whereas posts are subjects specific?

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You can put it that way, yes.
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Great. Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. Appreciated.
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@ siamjerry, thank you. You did excellent justice to d question

@ccelest just like he said post are dynamic and this is y they carry 4 unique features that pages don't carry

1) They come with date

2) They come with authors name

3) They come with comments

4) They allow social sharing.
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Thank you for your answer. Appreciated.
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You are welcome carol
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Tomoko1 Premium
This training is good to review what we learned in the beginning. Yesterday, I wrote a post from site content, but I was unable to publish it from there. So I logged in website first, then, write from the back office as you direct here. Then, I was able to publish it.
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Yes, a review and a reminder is good. They help us remember what we learnt in time past.
I am glad you found it useful

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