Part of the Setting up your Site Series for WordPress Beginners

WordPress has a lot of different interfaces, all built upon the same frame. If you are working with WordPress, you will find that there are usually multiple ways of doing the same thing, and they all look different, but have the same main elements.

Today the main element we are talking about is Menus.

Menus

Part of the “Appearance” aspect of WordPress, Menus are customizable content areas with a great deal of flexibility both in what they contain and where they can appear on the page. Each theme treats them differently, so the important thing to understand is that they are part of navigation plan that gives users access to your site. There are many schools of thought about how, when, where and why of menus. But the important thing is that they are considered and functional.

WordPress has some useful tools for providing automated menu generation based on the clicking of options in setup pages.

In this video, I walk you through setting up a basic first menu for this website, kevinwtharp.com.