Working With WordPress Menus

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Last updated: Feb 12, 2020 by Jeff Kirkwood
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Set Anchordown to use Manual Menus

  • Go to Appearance > Menus.

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  • Select the menu from the dropdown and click select. Alternately, create a menu at this stage.

  • Scroll to the bottom of the menu. Check Main Top Navigation located under Display location.

  • Click Save Menu

  • Go to Appearance > Customize > Vanderbilt – Header Options

  • Scroll to the bottom of the section. Under Primary Navigation Menu Source select manual.

  • Click Publish

Set the Anchordown theme to use Auto Menu

  • Go to Appearance > Customize > Vanderbilt – Header Options

  • Set Primary Navigation Menu Source to Auto

Hiding menu items when using Auto Menu

  • Go to Appearance > Customize > Vanderbilt – Header Options

  • Under “If using Auto navigation, hide these page IDs," add the page IDs that should not be displayed in the menu. Separate each ID with a comma.

  • How to find page IDs: Open a new browser window and navigate to the page to be hidden from the Auto Menu. Click Edit. Inspect the URL in the browser bar.
    Example: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/demo-vublog/wp-admin/post.php?post=1824&action=edit

  • The post ID is found after post=. In the above example, the post ID is 1824.

  • Click Publish

Creating Menus

 

  • Go to Appearance > Menus

  • Click create a new menu

Adding and editing menu items

  • Go to Appearance > Menus

  • Locate pages and posts under the Pages and Posts dropdown headers. Check items to add and click Add to Menu.

  • Use Custom Links to create links to other websites.

  • Editing menu items – Edit menu items by clicking the arrow located in the top right of the menu item.

  • Change the publicly displayed link text via the Navigation label

  • Click Save Menu 

  • Use Custom Links to link outside your WordPress website.

  • Enter the web page link in the URL field.

  • Enter the publicly displayed link name in the Link Text field.

Ordering Menu items

  • Drag and drop menu items to change the menu order. Indented items will automatically display as dropdown items. Menu items may also be moved by clicking the menu item arrow and then clicking the “move” controls.

  • Click Save

Dropdown menu items

Top level menu items with dropdowns must have a placeholder link in place to function correctly.

  • Click Custom Links to create a placeholder link.

  • Enter a hash symbol (#) in the URL field

  • Enter the Link Text

  • Click Add to Menu