Edit the Main Menu

Your website includes a custom menu with links to your news section and your pages. You can edit this menu at any time, add new items and re-order the menu items using a simple drag-and-drop interface.

Change the Main Menu Order

  1. Login to your website using the Login link from Site Tools in the right sidebar of your website.
    Note: If you are already logged in this will read “Site Admin.”
  2. From the Admin menu, select Appearance > Menus

    Alternately, you can can select Appearance > Menus  from the Admin Toolbar on the left.
  3. To change the order of the Main Menu, select the menu item you want to move and drag to a new location.
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  4. You can create sub-menus by dragging a menu item underneath and to the right of another menu item.
  5. If you’ve made any changes, click Save Menu.

Add a New Menu Item

You can add different types of menu items including Pages you have published, custom links to other web pages and categories of Posts.

Add a New Page Menu Item

  1. Create a new page.
  2. Select Menus from the Appearance toolbar in the Admin area.
  3. To add your new page, select the page from the Pages box and click Add to Menu.
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  4. The new page will be added at the bottom of your Main Menu list.
    Note: By default new top-level pages will be automatically added. You can change this by unchecking the ‘Automatically add new top-level pages’ box from the Menus page and clicking Save Menu.
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  5. Drag the new menu item to the desired location.
  6. Click Save Menu.

Add a Custom Link Menu Item

  1. To add a custom link, type the website address in the URL field of the Custom Links box.
  2. Type a short description in the Label field. This will be the text displayed in the Menu.
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  3. Click Add to Menu.
  4. Drag the new menu item to the desired location.
  5. Click Save Menu.

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