Creating a Menu

When you first make a WordPress site and start creating pages, you may notice your site is missing something crucial: a menu.  Menus are important because they are the main way your users navigate your site—that’s why the primary menu is also called the navigation. WordPress does not create menus automatically, so you must create one yourself.  To do so, go to your WordPress admin dashboard and follow the steps below.

1. Go to Appearance > Menus.
2. Click create a new menu.
3. Give your menu a name.  Typically, we name our main navigation primary.
4. Click the View All tab, and select a page to add to the menu.
5. In our example, we select the Home page.
6. Click the Add to Menu button to add the page to the primary menu.
7. Under Menu Settings, select the checkbox Primary Menu.
8. Click the blue Save Menu button.

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Adding Links to the Primary Menu

It's important to remember that when building or editing the primary menu in our environment, we need to make sure that it is as accessible as possible.