Question: How To Add A Drop Down Menu In WordPress?
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Intro
Adding a drop down menu to WordPress is a way to reorganize your site’s navigation into an organized list and make navigation easier for a user. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a drop down menu for your WordPress website, as well as a few short steps necessary to make your navigation seamless.
Estimated Time for Completion: 10 minutes
Step by Step Directions
1. Log into your WordPress dashboard
2. Select ‘Appearance’ then ‘Menus’
3. Create the menu if it is your first time setting it up
4. Select ‘Pages’ and add the ones you want to make available in the drop down menu
5. Click the arrow to the left of the page and drag it over the other pages you want to add in the list
6. Select the ‘Link’ option to add custom links to the list
7. Select ‘Save Menu’ to save your changes
Recommendations
Adding a drop down menu allows you to customize the navigation for your website. If you are looking for more customization options, we recommend using the Visual Menus WordPress plugin. This plugin allows you to set up custom menus with a visual editor. You can add icons for each item as well as fonts to make the list stand out.
Summary
In this tutorial, you learned how to add a drop down menu to your WordPress website. You began by logging into your WordPress dashboard, selecting ‘Appearance’ then ‘Menus’ and creating the menu. Afterward you added the pages you wanted to include in the list, added custom links, and saved the menu. Lastly, we recommended the Visual Menus WordPress plugin if you are looking for additional customization options.