Creating Menus

Image of laptop closeup with customizer menus options open in Wordpress

Create menus via the Customizer menu. You can create and save multiple menus. Before you start adding, sketch a wireframe of your webpage. This will give you a map of how you want the overall site to appear and navigate.

Depending on the theme, you may have more than one menu in more than one location. Make sure you check your documentation to see where the menus are and how to best use them. You can add custom links, pages, posts, categories to your menu.

Definitions

Pages – single elements of content
Categories – can contain multiple posts, collected under a single category
Posts – single element of content but can be categorized to appear as a group

Table of Contents:
00:11 – Check your theme documentation
00:24 – Menus must have content and location
01:28 – Menu items you need
01:50 – Adding pages to menus
02:05 – Set location first
03:07 – Next add content to menu
03:35 – Pages structure
03:48 – Structure for portfolio section
04:04 – What are categories
04:21 – Reorder menu
04:56 – Adding social links
05:49 – Recommendations for linking socials
06:35 – Adding pages from page menu
07:10 – Deleting existing or unused pages
07:15 – Adding new page and picking template
08:21 – Adding the new page to menu