Nerd Party: Adding a custom menu in WordPress
You all can thank Mandy for today’s Nerd Party post :) She was in the process of setting up her new website, Sustainable Sass and asked if it was possible to add categories to the navigation.
I rattled off a quick explanation and after attempting to do it herself she sent me her login information so I could check out why it wasn’t working. Well (sorry to throw you under the bus Mandizzle) she had that menu set up alllll wrong! I figured some of you might also be stuck setting up that oh-so-mysterious custom menu page, so here’s how….
1. Click Appearance > Menu, give your menu a name and click create menu
2. Add custom links, pages and categories (keep an eye on how many items can fit into your menu – make sure to keep them on one line)
3. Drag your links to reorder them. (If your menu allows for a sub-nav or a drop-down menu, you can drag links to the right slightly to create a child link. In this menu design and recipes will appear under the blog link.)
4. Save your new menu
5. Choose the new menu under Theme Locations and save again
Just a note: Not all templates will have the custom menu option. If you click into Appearance > Menu you will either see a bunch of menu options or a note that says you’re SOL :)
If you have a nerdy, blogging, design, Photoshop, CSS, HTML, WordPress or Blogger question, leave it in the comments and I might just answer it in an upcoming Nerd Party post!
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01.30.13 in nerd party
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Any idea how to verify your website on pinterest? They have instructions, but I don’t understand them at all. I use wordpress and have a “top level domain” as they say is required. After that I’m lost. They talk about uploading their HTML file, but I really don’t know how to do that. Most of my competence with wordpress is in searching and installing plugins and widgets – anything much deeper than that and it becomes a different language to me.
Here is where pinterest talks about the verification process: https://help.pinterest.com/entries/22217383
Thanks!
Thank you for another great post! Could you talk about categories and tags? I know the difference between the 2, but sometimes I want to use specific categories for myself so it is easy to navigate my blog and other times I feel like I should use broad categories that would be better for googling. And how many tags are enough. Should you always have a tag? And should you go back through old posts and redo the categories and tags once you find a system you like or only focus on new stuff? That may be a but too specific of a question or geared towards wordpress.com users, but for some reason I get caught up in “effective categorizing/tagging”. Thank you Sarah!
Thanks Shannon – not too specific at all and I thoroughly enjoy organizing as well, so I will add this question to my calendar!
Girl, you know I’d have never figured it out without you! You’re the bestest nerd ever.
I made my custom nav bar a few months ago, but it took me FOREVER to figure it out. There were seriously no good tutorials on this for WordPress when I googled. This one is very helpful- it’s exactly what I did!