Menus & Navigation

Helping Your Visitors Find What They Need

Introduction

In all of the PageLines’ themes, navigation menus are managed through WordPress’ native menus tool.

This tool allows you to manage your WordPress pages, categories, and links, with the ease of drag and drop.

This doc will illustrate how menus and navigation work in PageLines’ themes.

WordPress Menus

First, there is plenty of documentation on how to create custom menus with WordPress, so there is little need to duplicate that content here.

To that end, Digging Into WordPress has a pretty good basic tutorial on how to get started with WordPress menus… (you probably can ignore step one).

Specifically, setting up navigation in PageLines’ products requires two steps.

The process is very straight forward.

  1. Create a new menu (under Appearance > Menus)
  2. Attach it to the appropriate PageLines “theme location”

By using these menus, you can manipulate the order and change the parent and children pages independently. You can also choose from a variety of navigation items such as specific categories, pages, posts, and even custom items.

Drop Down Navigation

To use drop down navigation, first make sure the option for this is activated under ‘settings‘ > ‘header and nav‘.

Drop Down navigation in PageLines themes, uses the hierarchy you create in the WordPress menu area. This is achieved when you drag a menu item to the right of the top level menu items.

Sub Navigation

To use sub navigation, make sure this option is activated under ‘settings‘ > ‘header and nav‘.

Sub navigation in PageLines themes uses the natural page hierarchy you create when adding or editing pages. You create this hierarchy when you select ‘parent’ pages (on left on ‘Pages’ > ‘add new’).

Video – Controlling Navigation In Themes Using WP Menus

Here is a quick overview of how to control navigation with custom WordPress menus.

Another Video

We’ve added this Quick Tip tutorial here, for additional information. It was used to help some people on the forum and is not meant to be comprehensive.

In it we give a basic example of how to make a “Home” button drop down in WhiteHousePro3, using a WP3.0 menu.

Note: For sub navigation, make sure this is enabled in your theme options (should be ‘on’ by default).
Tip: The PageMash plugin for WP is an excellent tool for managing page hierarchy.