Designing a simple wordpress site - Menu

Open the web site we created ( explained in Introduction to Wordpress ) , and login to get access to the Admin area.

Step - 1 : Refer Designing a simple wordpress site -Theme
Step - 2 : Refer Designing a simple wordpress site - Pages
Step - 3 :  Refer Designing a simple wordpress site - Plugins

Step - 4 :  Refer Designing a simple wordpress site - Comments

STEP - 5

In the tutorial "Designing a simple wordpress site - Pages" , I mention that we can re-order the pages created .

Menus are used for this purpose .

In order to rearrange the pages in a particular order ,
Select Appearance --> Menus from admin panel of the web site .

Then we can see ,

Give a name for the menu (say menu1) , and click "Create Menu" , as shown below : 

Some other options can seen then , select "header menu " and click "Save" .

Note that , some other options also are there . But we have created all the pages in the top of the page of the web site.

So we choose "header menu " .

Now select all the created pages and click "Add to Menu" 

(Note that HOME page is not here in the list) .

Then we can see that , all the created pages come under "Menu" on right side , as shown :

Drag each item into the order you prefer. Click "Save Menu" .

I choose the order of the page as ,

Note that HOME page is not here in the list .

Visit the web site and see the HOME page there . 

To include HOME page  also in the MENU , do this , give the url of the home page in the URL , and give link text name as HOME .

Then click "Add to Menu" .

Then we can see that , the HOME page also come under "Menu" on right side , as shown :

Now drag it in the top of the Menu as shown :

And , click "Save Menu" .

Now go back to the site , and refresh to view the pages in order , as ;

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Next , we are going to make changes in the HOME page. .
Click  here to understand about "Theme option" in a wordpress page (STEP - 2 (E)).
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