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How to Add a Navigation Menu in WordPress (Beginner’s Guide)

Last updated on April 14th, 2020 by Editorial Staff
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How to Add a Navigation Menu in WordPress (Beginner’s Guide)

Do you want to add a navigation menu to your WordPress site?

WordPress comes with a drag and drop menu interface that you can use to create header menus, menus with dropdown options, and more.

In this step by step guide, we will show you how to easily add a navigation menu in WordPress.

How to Add Navigation Menu in WordPress

What is a Navigation Menu?

A navigation menu is a list of a links pointing to important areas of a website. They are usually presented as a horizontal bar of links at the top of every page on a website.

Navigation menus give your site structure and help visitors find what they’re looking for. Here’s how the navigation menu looks on WPBeginner:

The WPBeginner navigation menu

WordPress makes it really easy to add menus and sub-menus. You can add links to your most important pages, categories or topics, blog posts, and even custom links such as your social media profile.

The exact location of your menu will depend on your WordPress theme. Most themes will have several options, so you can create different menus that can be displayed in different places.

For instance, most WordPress themes come with a primary menu that appears on the top. Some themes may include a secondary menu, a footer menu, or a mobile navigation menu as well.

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Creating Your First Custom Navigation Menu

To create a navigation menu, you need to visit the Appearance » Menus page in your WordPress admin dashboard.

Creating a menu in WordPress

First, you need to provide a name for your menu, like ‘Top Navigation Menu’ and then click the ‘Create Menu’ button. This will expand the menu area, and it will look like this:

A newly created menu in WordPress

Next, you can choose the pages you want to add to the menu. You can either automatically add all new top-level pages, or you can select specific pages from the left column.

First, click the ‘View All’ tab to see all your site’s pages. After that click the box next to each of the pages you want to add to your menu, and then click on the ‘Add to Menu’ button.

Adding items to the navigation menu

Once your pages have been added, you can move them around by dragging and dropping them.

Dragging and dropping an item to move it in the menu

Note: All menus have their items listed in a vertical (top to bottom) list in the menu editor. When you put the menu live on your site, it’ll either display vertically or horizontally (left to right), depending on the location you select.

Most themes have several different locations where you can put menus. In this example, we’re using the default 2020 theme, which has 5 different locations.

After adding pages to the menu, select the location where you want to display the menu and click on the ‘Save Menu’ button.

Selecting the display location for your menu

Tip: If you’re not sure where each location is, try saving the menu in different places, then visiting your site to see how it looks. You probably won’t want to use all the locations, but you might want to use more than one.

Here’s our finished menu on the site:

Finished Live Navigation Menu

Creating Drop-Down Menus in WordPress

Drop-down menus, sometimes called nested menus, are navigation menus with parent and child menu items. When you run your cursor over a parent item, all the child items will appear beneath it in a sub-menu.

To create a sub menu, drag an item below the parent item, and then drag it slightly to the right. We’ve done that with 3 sub-items beneath ‘Services’ in our menu:

Add menu items as a sub-men

Here’s the sub-menu live on the site:

A drop-down sub menu in the site's navigation

You can even add multiple layers of dropdown, so that your sub menu can have a sub menu. This can end up looking at bit cluttered, and many themes do not support multi-layer drop-down menus.

In this example, you can see that ‘Logo Design’ (a child item of ‘Services’) has two child items of its own.

A nested drop-down menu

Adding Categories to WordPress Menus

If you’re using WordPress to run a blog, then you may want to add your blog categories as a drop-down in your WordPress menu. We do this on WPBeginner:

The WPBeginner menu showing the categories drop-down

You can easily add categories to your menu by clicking the Categories tab on the left side of the Menus screen. You may also need to click the ‘View All’ tab to see all your categories.

Simply select the categories you want to add to the menu, and then click the ‘Add to Menu’ button.

Adding categories to your menu

The categories will appear as regular menu items at the bottom of your menu. You can drag and drop them into position. We’re going to put all of these categories under the Blog menu item.

Putting the categories under the 'Blog' menu item

Do you want to have a blog page on your site that’s separate from your homepage? If so, check out our tutorial on how to create a separate page for blog posts in WordPress.

Adding Custom Links to Your WordPress Navigation Menus

Aside from categories and pages, WordPress also makes it super easy to add custom links to your menu. You can use it to link to your social media profiles, your online store, and / or other websites that you own.

You will need to use the ‘Custom Links’ tab on the Menu screen. Simply add the link along with the text you want to use in your menu.

Adding a custom link to Twitter to the menu

You can even get creative and add social media icons in your menu.

Social media menu

Editing or Removing a Menu Item in WordPress Navigation Menus

When you add pages or categories to your custom navigation menu, WordPress uses the page title or category name as the link text. You can change this if you want.

Any menu item can be edited by clicking on the downward arrow next to it.

Expanding a menu item to edit its name

You can change the name of the menu item here. This is also where you can click ‘Remove’ to take the link off your menu altogether.

If you’re struggling with the drag and drop interface, then you can also move the menu item around by clicking the appropriate ‘Move’ link.

Adding WordPress Menus in Sidebars and Footers

You don’t have to just stick to the display locations for your theme. You can add navigation menus in any area that uses widgets, like your sidebar or footer.

Simply go to Appearance » Widgets and add the ‘Navigation Menu’ widget to your sidebar. Next, add a title for the widget and choose the correct menu from the ‘Select Menu’ drop down list.

Adding a menu as a sidebar widget

Here’s an example of a custom WordPress footer menu built on Syed Balkhi’s website.

WordPress Footer Menu Example - Syed Balkhi

Going Further with Navigation Menus

If you want to create a truly epic menu with loads of links, we’ve got a tutorial on how to create a mega menu in WordPress. This lets you create a drop-down with lots of items including images.

Mega menu preview

Mega menus are a great option if you have a large site, like an online store or news site. This type of menu is used by sites like Reuters, Buzzfeed, Starbucks, etc.

FAQs About WordPress Menus

Here are some of the most common questions we hear about WordPress navigation menus from beginners.

1. How do I add a homepage link to a WordPress menu?

To add your homepage to a navigation menu, you’ll need to click the ‘View All’ tab under Pages. From there, you should see your homepage.

add homepage to WordPress navigation menu

Check the box next to ‘Home’ and click ‘Add to Menu’. Don’t forget to save your changes.

2. How do I add multiple navigation menus in WordPress?

In WordPress, you can create as many menus as you like. To place a menu on your website, you’ll need to add it to one of your theme’s menu locations, or to a widget area as we showed above.

To add multiple navigation menus to your WordPress site, first create the menus following our tutorial above.

To place them on your site, click on the ‘Manage Locations’ tab.

manage menu locations in WordPress

From here, you can select which menu you’d like to display in the menu locations that are available in your theme.

If you want to add a new menu location to your site, see our tutorial on how to add custom navigation menus to WordPress themes.

We hope this article helped you learn how to add a navigation menu in WordPress. You may also want to check out our guides on how to style navigation menus in WordPress and how to create a sticky floating navigation menu in WordPress.

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  1. HJ says:
    Sep 2, 2020 at 1:36 pm

    Very basic question, but how to enable menu on a subpage? I designed some subpages, but the menu is not visible on top. In my main pages the menu is visible. How to enable the menu to make it visible on the sub-pages?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Sep 8, 2020 at 3:04 pm

      You would want to reach out to the support for your specific theme, it sounds like your theme may remove the menu for certain pages. If you reach out to the support they should let you know how to add the menu back.

      Reply
  2. Janien says:
    Aug 2, 2020 at 6:39 pm

    I’m trying to get a navigation menu that is sticky and is not transparent. I’ve tried everything. Am I allowed to change the navigation bar in a theme?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Aug 3, 2020 at 3:34 pm

      You are but it would require some coding knowledge, we would recommend reaching out to your theme’s support and they can normally assist.

      Reply
  3. Miranda says:
    Jul 7, 2020 at 12:49 am

    I have made a navigation menu but it won’t show up on the mobile site and when I go to navigation menu settings it does not have mobile menu as an option. Do you know how I can fix this or do I need to find a different theme?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jul 8, 2020 at 8:53 am

      You would need to reach out to the support for your specific theme for it not displaying properly and they would be able to assist.

      Reply
  4. sadik says:
    May 27, 2020 at 3:19 am

    Thenk you Wp Begginer

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 27, 2020 at 9:46 am

      You’re welcome :)

      Reply
  5. Nanyc says:
    May 14, 2020 at 3:05 pm

    This helped a lot. I wanted a heads up before I started. Presented very well.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 15, 2020 at 8:45 am

      Glad our article was helpful :)

      Reply
  6. atta says:
    May 12, 2020 at 8:30 am

    Thanks for the detailed guide. I have a question: how can we add a navbar (for a landing page) which links the landing page sections/elements instead of navigating to other pages. An example is Wikipedia. On any Wikipedia page, you can click on the name of the section and it will immediately go down to that section.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 12, 2020 at 11:14 am

      For that, you would want to use anchor links which we cover in our article below:
      https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-easily-add-anchor-links-in-wordpress-step-by-step/

      Reply
  7. Gina says:
    May 5, 2020 at 3:09 am

    Hi,

    I created categories and added to my menu so that once a reader clicks they can find all the blog posts on that category. My problem is that I don’t want the blog name to appear at the top of the page, that is, Blogging category => Blogging category description => blog posts, how do I remove that?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 5, 2020 at 11:15 am

      That would depend on your specific theme’s styling. If you reach out to your theme’s support they should be able to assist with changing what is shown

      Reply
  8. wan says:
    Mar 17, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    i try to add menu item on my menu structure. even when i save menu, the website doesn’t change. why?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Mar 18, 2020 at 8:36 am

      You would want to ensure your site or your hosting provider does not have a cache that could be causing your issue.

      Reply
  9. Keith says:
    Feb 22, 2020 at 6:58 am

    Great resources

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Feb 24, 2020 at 11:30 am

      Thank you :)

      Reply
  10. Linda McMillan says:
    Oct 24, 2019 at 5:23 pm

    Hello, I am using Elementor and OceanWP. I set up a custom link in my menu so that when clicking on it goes to the Home page. How can I make it go instead of just to the Home page, but down the page to a certain section? I appreciate your help.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Oct 25, 2019 at 10:03 am

      You would want to take a look at making an anchor link: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-easily-add-anchor-links-in-wordpress-step-by-step/

      Reply
  11. Annie says:
    Sep 11, 2019 at 7:04 am

    Pretty much there with the navigation. One question though, I have one point in my navigation “products” from there it splits into 3 other sections (drop down menu coming up). I don’t want visitors be able to access this product page as it will be empty, I want them to choose directly from the drop down menu instead of accessing the products page first. So products will be still displayed in the navigation but will be inaccessible, visitors have to click onto the drop down menu to choose what they are after. How do I do this? I m I m removing the whole products section it wont be displayed in the navi anymore, how can I make the products page inaccessible?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Sep 11, 2019 at 9:44 am

      You can create a custom link under Appearance>Menus titled Products and link it to either a different page or # which should keep the users on the same page they are on.

      Reply
      • Ishan says:
        May 8, 2020 at 5:49 am

        Thank you for your help.I was facing the same problem

        Reply
  12. Terry L. Cooper says:
    May 27, 2019 at 8:26 am

    How old is this anyway?? I’m not seeing any of this on the WP page.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 28, 2019 at 2:48 pm

      The steps in this article should still work for WordPress.org sites, are you on WordPress.com? https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/self-hosted-wordpress-org-vs-free-wordpress-com-infograph/

      Reply
  13. Azizi says:
    Mar 25, 2019 at 12:33 pm

    Sorry sir, which WordPress theme you’re using on WPbeginner.com?????

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Mar 25, 2019 at 1:26 pm

      We are using a theme we created for our site built on the Genesis Framework, for more on what we’re using on our site you would want to take a look at our blueprint page here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/blueprint/ :)

      Reply
  14. Inzamam ul haq says:
    Oct 11, 2018 at 5:26 am

    It really helped me. very informative.Thanks

    Reply
  15. Natalie V says:
    Oct 10, 2018 at 11:58 am

    Hi! Thanks so much for this post. It helped me a lot. I have the “Karuna” theme. Whenever I add more menu options (I have 4) they are displayed in two row. I would like them all to be in one row. Is there a way to fix this? Thank you so much!

    Reply
  16. David says:
    Aug 18, 2018 at 2:23 am

    Needed to link a buy now button to woo commerce cart page. Spent two days going in circles. Tried to contact woo with little success. Then found you guys who helped solve the problem.
    Often it is the little things which can stop us in our tracks. A big thank you for the simplified set of clear instructions.

    Reply
  17. Elliot Kershaw says:
    Jul 14, 2018 at 10:17 am

    Hello,

    I am making a website with Ocean WP and Elementor, however I am unable to see the menu at the top of all of my pages. It only appears at the top of the home page. So people can navigate to any page from the home page, however if anyone wanted to navigate back to the home page or to another page from there, it would tricky. Do you have a solution for this? Thank you!

    Reply
  18. Lindsey says:
    Jun 4, 2018 at 2:52 pm

    Thank you for these instructions, very helpful! I have a question that I think relates back to my menu but I’m not totally sure. When I click on a menu item from the home page the site address adds “aboutme” between the main address and the menu page. I do not have anything called “about me” on my site. I don’t understand why it is adding this extra piece of information to each page. Any suggestions on how to remove this “aboutme” information?

    Reply
  19. hans says:
    Jun 1, 2018 at 2:18 pm

    Thank you.
    I learned much knowledge.

    Reply
  20. Karen says:
    May 23, 2018 at 11:04 am

    Hi. I am using Ocean WP and Elementor.
    I have a menu organized, but there on one of my Nested menu dropdown sections I want the FIRST category NOT to be linked to a page (I tried to remove the link but I failed).
    The nested section is as follows: THERAPY (on top)>Individual>Group
    I don’t want THERAPY to lead to a page, it’s blank, it’s just a category I guess. I’ve done this in my previous site but I can’t for the life of me remember how to do it!
    I did create a “page” called Therapy so it would show up in the menu options…help me obi wan kenobi you are my only hope!
    Dr Karen

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 23, 2018 at 12:31 pm

      Hi Karen,

      Add your top link Therapy as a ‘Custom Link’. In the URL field enter # sign and click add to menu. Adjust its position in the menu and then click on Save Menu button.

      Reply
      • Eric Wenocur says:
        Mar 20, 2019 at 11:20 pm

        Aha, that’s how you do it! Thanks, great tutorials!

        Reply
        • WPBeginner Support says:
          Mar 21, 2019 at 11:36 am

          You’re welcome, glad you like our content :)

  21. saurabh says:
    May 3, 2018 at 1:09 am

    Hello,

    We use the two menu system (i.e. primary/top & main/secondary menu) across our websites. And the top/primary menu does not appear on the mobile website.
    One of our clients, want both the menus to be visible on the mobile site. Any suggestions on how to do that?

    (The website is running on newspaper theme, if that helps.)

    Reply
  22. Ahmed says:
    Apr 11, 2018 at 1:30 pm

    Suppose I want to post many articles related to android. Should I create a android page or android category in my wp menu.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Apr 11, 2018 at 8:53 pm

      Hi Ahmed,

      Categories are better to sort your content into different topics. You can add a category to your website’s navigation menu and then it will show all posts filed under that category.

      Reply
  23. Lerissa says:
    Mar 26, 2018 at 8:28 pm

    Hi – Thanks for providing this.

    I don’t have any items in my Pages section, which is strange, because my site has several. Did I configure a setting wrong?

    Lerissa

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Mar 28, 2018 at 2:42 am

      Hi Lerissa,

      What happens when you click on ‘View All’ under pages?

      Reply
  24. Tom says:
    Feb 6, 2018 at 11:36 am

    Thanks for this illustration.

    Reply
  25. Manish Ransubhe says:
    Jan 30, 2018 at 1:50 pm

    hi sir

    thank you, i have started my new WordPress blog and I Stuck on the menu I don’t know how to add menu thanks for your this useful post and Your site helped me to launch my website.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jan 30, 2018 at 6:29 pm

      Hi Manish,

      Glad you found this guide helpful. You may also want to subscribe to our YouTube Channel for WordPress video tutorials.

      Reply
  26. Cyndi Jarvis says:
    Jan 3, 2018 at 5:56 pm

    Hi and thanks for your support. I have a website almost completed, pretty basic but want to link the menu items to the page that relevant text exists and somehow be able to take the user back to the main menu with a back button. Can you please help.
    Thanks

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jan 3, 2018 at 9:00 pm

      Hi Cyndi,

      The tutorial above allows you to link to pages and add them to navigation menus. Seems like you want something a little different, can you please provide more details?

      Reply
    • cyndi says:
      Jan 5, 2018 at 4:37 pm

      Thanks for trying to help. I am not looking for anything unusual with my menu in the website. I have menu items setup as Home, About Us, Services, Contact. The menu name is First Menu and set to primary. What happens is that I click on Home and the page flashes but I don’t go anywhere. This happens with all of the menu items I click on. Any suggestions what I have setup incorrectly?
      Thanks

      Reply
      • WPBeginner Support says:
        Jan 5, 2018 at 9:56 pm

        Hi Cyndi,

        You can try this. Go to Apperance » Menus page and click on create a new menu. The following the instructions in the article create new menu by adding your pages from left column to the right. After that select the location for your menu ‘Primary’ and then click on save menu button.

        If this doesn’t solve your issue, then preview your website with a default theme. If your navigation menu works as expected with the default theme, then there may be some issue with your current theme. Hope this helps.

        Reply
  27. Regina Clarke says:
    Nov 27, 2017 at 2:45 pm

    This was so helpful and it worked beautifully on my laptop. But on my iPhone the submenu categories I dropped into my Blog menu (which all show up indented as they should) also include the description I created of the category. On my laptop that appears on the archive page for each category but on the phone it appears in the dropdown, which makes it all look muddy. Is there a way to create yet another indent for just the descriptions under each category, effectively nesting three levels?

    Thanks very much for any suggestions.

    Reply
  28. Jillian says:
    Oct 27, 2017 at 3:49 pm

    Hi there, I have created a nested menu which looks great in the desktop version, but when it gets to the mobile version everything nested is shown on the menu at once! It creates a super long menu page. I have a responsive theme and am unsure if can be fixed.

    Reply
  29. Amber Shock says:
    Oct 16, 2017 at 6:50 pm

    Thanks for making such an easy to follow video. It helped a lot and I quickly got my issue figured out.

    Reply
  30. Bartek says:
    Oct 9, 2017 at 11:28 am

    I have problems that wordpress doesn´t let me add any category any more or even is deleting and changing place of some which were once added. Anybody know what can be a reason?

    Reply
  31. Ahmed Azeem says:
    Oct 8, 2017 at 7:36 am

    My website don’t have option of primary, secondary but main and footer menu. I want to add top menu in my website can you please guide me how to add top menu. also in my portfolio page whatever items I am adding is not showing so kindly help me out regarding that. Thanks in advance.

    Reply
  32. John says:
    Oct 6, 2017 at 5:37 am

    I thought this was an explanation about how to add a navigation menu in your WordPress site, but it’s missing the vital code to actually add it to your website. This is the dumbest tutorial (or article title) I have ever seen.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Oct 8, 2017 at 3:25 pm

      Hi John,

      You may want to check out our tutorial on how to add custom navigation menus in WordPress.

      Reply
  33. Shibani says:
    Aug 22, 2017 at 9:41 am

    I have a site where I want to display custom menu which is a category – like travel. It works fine, but it displayed – Category – Travel above posts. How can I hide that? I’m using wordpress.com and using free plan.

    Reply
  34. Prachi says:
    Jul 24, 2017 at 7:48 am

    Suppose my website is example.com

    I want to create a tab called HOME and place it menu.

    Whenever I am creating this HOME, the url does not accept example.com
    It is becoming as example.com/home.

    What should I do?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jul 24, 2017 at 9:03 pm

      Hi Prachi,

      WordPress already has a navigation menu that you can use. On the navigation menus screen click on the pages and then click on View All. There you will see all your pages and an item called Home. Select home and then click on add to menu button.

      Reply
  35. John says:
    Jul 5, 2017 at 1:44 am

    I have followed the above instruction. My menu though will not actually appear on any of the sites pages. May I have some guidance please ?

    John

    Reply
    • Haitham Alnaqeb says:
      Aug 11, 2017 at 12:54 pm

      Have tried a different themes? Sometime the themes you are using is not supported to some of these futures.

      Reply
  36. Ike Ezeani says:
    Jun 4, 2017 at 6:53 pm

    I created a second dropdown menu but when I click the main menu I see the dropdown but it takes to a blank page. Please help.

    Reply
  37. Stephen B says:
    May 16, 2017 at 10:44 pm

    Hello,

    When I log into my wordpress, my edit menu looks completely different and I am having a significantly difficult time adding menus and customizing my site because of this. Can you help me?

    Reply
  38. Malkeet says:
    May 4, 2017 at 7:13 am

    Hi, Thanks for the nice detailed explanation of adding menu, but how to call this menu ????

    Reply
  39. Husnaa says:
    Mar 26, 2017 at 1:33 am

    Thanks for helping me out.
    Keep helping others.

    Reply
  40. Lucy says:
    Mar 25, 2017 at 8:43 am

    Hi, I’m really struggling with navigation for a clients site and am not sure how to explain what i need. When you click on a Top-Level menu item, I want it to open an additional menu underneath. Each Top-Level will have a different sub menu that stays activated whilst you are in that area of the site.

    Like on this website
    When you click on say “Commercial Solar” another menu appears and allows you to browse the commercial solar area. The top menu stays selected throughout.

    Any help you can offer would be great! Thanks Lucy

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Mar 25, 2017 at 9:12 pm

      Hi Lucy,

      Please see our article on how to add a menu item without linking to a page.

      Reply
  41. David Blaska says:
    Mar 22, 2017 at 3:41 pm

    I want to link my pages to headers on the home page that synopsize those pages. How to do? (Like “Our History,” “Who We Are,” etc.) I have a page for each of those but a small blurb on each on the Home Page. Would like for visitors to click on the header of each of those.

    Reply
  42. Michael says:
    Jan 28, 2017 at 11:28 am

    Hi, I need for my main navigation window to ‘push up’ as opposed to ‘drop down’. I’m using Google Doubleclick Ad Exchange for display ads and they claim that my drop down menu could create false clicks on ads. Is there anyway that I could make it push up?

    Reply
  43. Emma says:
    Dec 4, 2016 at 10:14 am

    Thank you so much for this, been trying to figure out how to create drop down menus, this really helped!

    Reply
  44. isa alshabany says:
    Oct 10, 2016 at 3:59 am

    hello
    I Am A Beginner Not Professional , I Am Using A Template Theme & You Can See It In My Site .. I Have An Arabic Menu .. I Need To Create An English Menu Underneath It So English Speaking Browser Can Access The English Pages .. Thanks A Lot .. Isa

    Reply
    • Haitham Alnaqeb says:
      Aug 11, 2017 at 12:59 pm

      I think you need to have multi WordPress websites and insert a code in your landing page to redirect your visitors based on their computers language or countries. Each of these website will have a WordPress with its language because it is does not make sense to me if I log in into an Arabic websites that has only Menu in English or the opposite.

      Reply
  45. Steven Denger says:
    Oct 9, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    Helo – I have a subdomain for . I really do not use it except to store pages. On one experiment, I use a css code for a page to hide header and navbar. But since then when I removed the css code and tried to create a menu, the nav bar will not show. I am quite familuar with wordpress menus and how to place them. But I just cannot get this one to show. I exported some pages into this subdomain and tried to create a menu – but it is no use – it just will not show. This is what gets me about wordpress – you never know when or how it is going to go haywire. Would ou know what the matter is?

    Reply
  46. Paul Nye says:
    Oct 7, 2016 at 3:14 pm

    How can I add a drop down menu in an area of a page other than my sidebar widget?

    Reply
  47. Mary says:
    Sep 28, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    HI there,
    I was actually wondering if the custom menu takes the place of the default navigation menu. How does it effect the existing default menu and its nesting?

    I would have to remember to add my pages to the custom menu.

    It may sound silly, but this seems very complicated to me.

    I wanted to make a few pages unclickable (like “reviews”) and I like the eventual idea of sub nesting
    Thanks for putting so much energy into this article. Mary

    Reply
  48. munir says:
    Sep 11, 2016 at 7:30 am

    Hi all

    how could i add a menu on a certain page of my website? (i don’t need the menu to appear on the home page or the front page)
    thank you all

    Reply
    • Asir says:
      Jul 25, 2017 at 11:48 am

      You need to install and activate plugin called (Page Specific Menu items)
      How to make this plugin work?

      Create a menu from appearance > menus
      Select the menu you want to use from settings > PS MenuItems > Select Menu
      Assign the menu to menu location from appearance > menus
      Check the items you want to hide from pages > edit > Page Specific Menu Items
      View the page and the selected items should be gone.

      Reply
  49. jenijeya says:
    Aug 25, 2016 at 6:02 am

    super to quickly understand

    Reply
  50. Lucas Phan says:
    Aug 18, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    Hey bro, i have a question for you.
    How to create side menu like this
    thank bro.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Aug 19, 2016 at 1:31 am

      Can be achieved using CSS and JavaScript. See our article on how to add a slide panel menu in WordPress themes, and try using it as a starting point.

      Reply
      • Zac says:
        Dec 28, 2016 at 11:59 am

        Hi, I don’t see all those fancy options (e.g., drag and drop sub menus etc) on my FREE wordpress site. I wonder if the information you gave is for the premium wordpress version. Thanks

        Reply
        • WPBeginner Support says:
          Dec 28, 2016 at 10:46 pm

          Hi Zac,

          These options described in the tutorial are available in self hosted WordPress.org sites. You are probably using a free WordPress.com website. Please see our guide on the difference between self hosted WordPress.org vs free WordPress.com blog.

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