Primary Menu
On the Menus administration page you
will see two tabs: Edit
Menus and Manage
Locations. Select the
Manage Locations tab.
The Edit Menus tab manages what’s on the
menus, while the Manage
Locations tab sets where
menus appear in your
website's layout. If your
themes can support various
menu locations, you'll be
presented with more than
the primary menu but all
themes should have
“Primary Menu” listed the
only meny to
edit.
Use the dropdown
menu under Assigned Menu to select a menu for the
primary menu. Your website
uses the primary menu on
the home page and
throughout the website.
The primary menu is the
first menu that shows in
this
section.
Adding Pages to the Menu
To start, click the
downward triangle to open
the Pages section, and
you’ll see three tabs for Most Recent, View All, and Search. Most
Recent shows a limited
list of pages in
reverse chronological
order by date, while View
All lists them all –
listed as specified by the
page order. Search allows
you to type some
characters and view
an autocompleted list of
pages to quickly find a
page by its title. Click the Check Box for the page you want to add to the Primary menu (or selected menu).
Arranging Menu Items
WordPress
places new menu items
to the bottom and at the
same level in a flat list,
so you'll want to rearrange
menu items to meet your
needs.
WordPress does allow
for complete flexibility
for customizing menus. In
addition to editing
labels, you can
arrange the order and
levels of menu items with
drag and drop
functionality. Grab the Page menu item by
holding down the left
mouse button, and when you
see a four-headed arrow,
drag the item to the
bottom of the list. You’ll
see a dashed outline to
guide the positioning of
the item, and you can drop
it into place by releasing
the mouse
button.
Multi-level menus
can be used for
hierarchical lists
and for condensing
the screen space used by a
menu. Themes may simply
display a multi-level menu
as an indented
hierarchical list, though
most theme designs will
use the dropdown or
fly-out functionality to
display lower level menu
items as users
interact with the menu.
Be sure to click
“Save Menu” in the lower
right or upper right
corners to save the
changes to your custom
menu.