A Comprehensive Guide to Creating Effective Navigation Menus with WordPress

A website's navigation menu allows users to quickly jump to different parts of the site. Menu items usually link to the most important pages, such asHome,Contact Us,blog (loanword)etc. 

WordPress comes with its own menus, which can be created through the WordPress dashboard. Of course, Elementor offers many cool and creative ways to present menus to your users, and you can also use Elementor to create navigation menus.

Creating menus

Creating the top level menu

To build the site's navigation top menu:

1. Select from WordPress DashboardAppearance > Menu.

2. Name the menu and click "Create menu"The

At this point, you can choose to have the menu automatically displayed in thefootermaybefootersin the menu. You can also set the menu to automatically include newly created top-level pages in the menu. The top level page is the main page of the section, and usually has subpages under it.
Once the menu is created, pages can be added to it. 

3. Use check marks to select pages to include in the menu.

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After adding pages to the menu, they will appear in themenu structurePart. 

Menu items can be reordered by dragging and dropping them. Click on the arrows next to the menu items for more options, such as renaming. After making changes, remember to clickSave menuThe

Posts, custom links and entire categories can also be added to the menu.

Creating submenus

In many cases, it is necessary to create secondary menus for menu items (sometimes calledsubmenu). For example, there is a need for a generic"Contact Us"A page where visitors can quickly find our contact information.

To create submenus:  

1. Select from WordPress DashboardAppearance > Menu.

2. Use the check mark to select the sub-page, and then click"Add to menu"The

3. Once these subpages are part of the menu, drag them below the top level page, slightly to the right.  

The operations are pretty much the same, once you get good at them.