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bjbj How to Customize Your Theme Menus Duration: 6 mins 43 secs In this video, I'm going to
show you how to use custom menus with your WordPress blog. Now, this is how a default
WordPress 3.0 2010 theme would look like. And you can see, the top navigation menu here
only displays your default WordPress 3.0 2010 theme blog's pages. Now, with WordPress 3.0
and above, you can actually design your own custom menus. Now, how to do that is to log
in to your WordPress dashboard, and then click on Appearance; click on Menus. And on the
main Menus screen, the easiest way to get started is to just enter a new menu name.
So I'm gonna call this Default and click on Create Menu. Okay? Now you can see that a
default menu has been created. So the first thing you wanna pay attention is the Theme
Locations. And it says here, "Your theme supports 1 menu. Select which menu you would like to
use." So again, the amount of menus you can use on a particular theme's main navigation
area is really dependent on the type of theme itself. For the default theme, I can use one
menu for the top navigation. So I can either select the Default, or I can just put it to
blank. So I'm gonna select Default at the moment, and...let me scroll here...okay. So
you can see that my new default menu is pretty much empty, right? So what I can do is I can
either select some pages to be included...in this case, I only have one page, so I'm gonna
select the one page that I have, and click on Add to Menu. And you can see that the one
page that I've added is now in my menu. I can expand this, and I can actually rename
the label of this page. So the page itself, by default...the original name is About. But
I can change it to About Me, if I want to. Alright? And then I can add more links to
this menu by looking at my categories. So if I want to add a particular category for
example, Test Category I can just click on that and click Add to Menu. And I can see
that the Test Category is here. Again, I can expand this, and again, I can give it a custom
name if I want to.
Now, with WordPress 3.0 and above, you're not limited to only the content on your WordPress
blog. You can even add a menu link to any website that you want. So to do that, you
can just put in the website that you want here under Custom Links...okay? Gonna put
as Google.com...gonna give it a label: Google; and click on Add to Menu. Okay, and now you
can see that the new menu is here...right? Google.com, and the navigation label is Google.
Now, once I've added all the links that I want in my menu, I can always re-order those
links...okay, and in this case, you can see that this link here is slightly indented.
What it means is that now I have put the Google link as a child of the main About link. If
I don't want it to be a child of the main About link, and I want it all to be on the
same level, I can just drag it back here, and you can see the differences it's very
easy to do; just be careful with exactly where you put it. If you put it here, it becomes
a child, and if you put it here, it becomes a parent link. Alright? And I can change this
About as I want to, and click on Save Menu. Okay, now my menu's been saved. Let's go back
to the theme. This is the default...menu navigation link. I'm going to refresh that, and you can
see now this is my custom menu. Now, not only can you display your custom menu in your main
navigation header links here, but you can also display in your sidebar. To do that,
you just go to Widgets,
and just select the widget area that you want to put your custom menu to, and you can just
drag this Custom Menu widget here, drop it in this area, and then make sure that you
select the correct menu. And you can give it a tile, so I'm gonna call mine Site Navigation,
I'm gonna click on Save. Now let's go to your blog again, and this is how it looks by default,
so I'm gonna refresh...now, you can see my custom menu over here. So let's take a look
at how this menu would look like if I actually put some pages or links as a child to the
actual main link itself. So I'm gonna go back to Menus, and make sure I've selected my default
menu...and now, I'm going to make About Me as a child of the Test Category. Okay? And
Save Menu. Now, I'm gonna refresh the page...alright? So you can no longer see the About Me page,
but if you mouse over Test Category, now, you can see the About Me page under Test Category.
And that's how child menus work. And in fact, for the sidebar navigation, you can see that
the child menu About Me is slightly indented under the main or the parent menu item, which
is Test Category. So that's how easy and fun it is to customize your WordPress blog using
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