Do you know how to add a page to the menu in WordPress? if yes it excellent. If not, this blog post might be helpful for you. For easy navigation, we create menus on our WordPress site.
Now it is more important that you add your items like Pages, categories in your menus. So let’s understand how we can add a page to the menu in WordPress.
If you want to know how to create menu, and page in WordPress, you can read following blog posts:
How to Create a Menu in WordPress?
How to Create a page in WordPress?
How to Add a Page to the menu in WordPress?
If you want to a page to the menu in WordPress, just log in to your WordPress dashboard. Hover over on appearance on the left side menu and click on menus.
When you will click on menus, a menu page will appear. From this page, you can edit, create menus and add items to the menu.
Now select your menu, where you want to add a page in WordPress. If you don’t have an existing menu, you can create a new menu from the menu page. As you can view in the below image.
Just click on drop-down arrow of the pages below the Add menu items. Now your pages will appear.
To view all the pages, just click on View All. A list of all the pages will appear now. Now select the pages which you want to add to the menu. If you want to select all the pages, you can select all.
And if you want to select particular pages, you can click on the check box of the pages. After selecting the pages, click on Add to Menu button.
When you add the pages, it will appear on the page below the menu you selected. Now you can rearrange the structure if you want to do. You can do it by drag and drop. It is so easy and quick to do.
After the final arrangement, you click on the Save Menu button. After it pages will be added and saved to the menu.
Summary of Add Page to Menu:
- Log in to Your WordPress dashboard
- Navigate to Appearance>Menu
- Create New menu if there is no menu. or Select the existing menu where you want to add pages.
- Click on the drop-down arrow of the pages.
- Click on View all
- Select the pages you want to add.
- Click on Add to Menu
- Check Display Location
- Click on the Save button.
if you want to other item like categories, you can follow the above steps.
You can also delete items from the menu. If you want to delete any particular page, just click on the drop-down arrow of the item. Now click on the remove button of the item. Your item will be deleted.
Summary of deleting page from the menu:
- Log in to Your WordPress dashboard
- Navigate to Appearance>Menu
- Select the menu
- Select the pages you want to delete.
- Click on the drop-down arrow of the page.
- Click on the Remove button.
- Now click on the Save button.
How to Add Categories in WordPress?
Conclusion
Site structure and navigation are very important parts of your site. Either it about creating a menu or adding items to the menus, all these are crucial factors. Whenever you add items to the menu, you should check your website properly.
You can add a page to the menu in WordPress through your website dashboard. But you can also do it through your customization option also. For this, you can go to Appearance>Customize.
