Okay, my name is Rob coven, we're going to create a menu. A menu is usually seen beneath the header or the logo section, a main navigation bar. That gives you the most important links on a website. Now there are different ways you can create a menu in WordPress. Usually its appearance menus. However, you can also go to Customize.

But first we're going to go to Appearance menus. Right, we don't have any menus here. So we're going to create a new menu. And there's a link here to create a new menu. Or we could just put a menu name in here and create menu. So I'm going to call this menu navbar.

Create menu. Now this menu doesn't have any pages in it. Yes, so let's add some we got all the pages on the left. hand side here. And we want each one of these pages in the menu. So I'm going to check them all.

And I'm going to add to menu. There they are. Now traditionally, on websites, you usually see the homepage first, and usually the contact page is lost on the right side. But you can drag and drop the order of your menu here. So let's put home first, let's go about us second, oops, that's a sub item, that's for when you want a drop down in your menu, but we not having a drop down. Now we're just gonna have a normal menu, contact me is going to be lost and courses is going to be third.

So now we've got the menu in the right order. Now, if you want a menu to automatically add pages, then you can check that box there. I don't think that's a very good idea because you should be creating more pages. You don't want more than five links 678 at the very most in your top navigation menu, so we're going to leave that unchecked. Okay, well, let's check this primary menu box here. And we'll see where the menu turns up.

So we'll save menu. And now let's refresh this page. And there it is, it's on the right hand side. Because we've got space up there. You know which page you're on because it's in bold. We can now click to the About Us page we can now reach the About Us page from any other page.

We can click on the homepage that's blank at the moment, we can click on the courses page. So we've created the menu. I'm just going to do something else now I've seen I've done something really stupid. I've got an about us and a contact me obviously why the want and about us and a contact us or about me and Contact me. But you don't want to confuse us and me. And as this is a personal blog, I'm going to change the About Us page.

And in order to do that, you can go through the back end the WordPress administration section and click pages and find the About Us page. But if you're logged in, you can always click Edit at the bottom here. And that will take you straight to the page where you can edit it. So I'm going to change this title me. And while I'm about it, I must change the URL. Because this permalink should reflect the title.

It doesn't have to be the same as the title, but it will look pretty stupid. If you have a page that's called about me. And the permalink is about hyphen us. So I'm going to okay that now updates. And now let's go back to the sites and it's about me now. Click on That page, and there is the permalinks.

So you can see that the menu will update itself. If you change any of these pages that you added to the menu. And this is the great thing about WordPress, everything is very user friendly. If you again, if you had to do that in HTML, it will take you forever in a day. But this is a content management system that does all the heavy lifting for you. You've just got to learn how it works in the back end.

My name is Rob coven. I'll see you in the next video.