WordPress 3.0 video tutorial how to set up drop down menu tab of your navigation bar with Twenty Ten theme.
Twenty Ten is really nice theme of the latest version of wordpress. I notice lots people use it, and the most useful part of the navigation is the drop down feature. It is so much easier to have drop down menu in your wordpress blog now.
I have created a video how to set up featured image in wordpress 3.0, and today we will make our drop down menu works.
If you remember, in the oldest version theme, we had to embed javascripts ourselves or even had to install plugins for drop down menu bar. We can forget those problems since this theme is providing drop down menu options.
So here are the steps for wordpress drop down navigation bar settings:
1. Create pages, in this example i use “address” page. So click “pages” and then “Add New”. Type the title, and the content.
2. When you are done, in the right bar, you see “Page Attributes” and click “Parents” pull down menu.
3. Set which parent page you want.
4. Click “Publish” and refresh your page. It should work and your wordpress blog has neat drop down menu in the navigation bar.
Do you like this new drop down menu? Well, i do :)
Video:
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WordPress has actually done a very good job with this latest update. Most newbie bloggers will find their standard theme more than adequate to start off with, heaps better than the one it replaced.
I’ve still to check out the other new features but I will get to it one day.
@Sire, you’re absolutely right, Twenty Ten has cool feature and very easy to customize with the drag and drop options, almost switch to that theme lol
Thanks for commenting Sire :D
i use wordpress 3.0 in localhost but i face the dropdown menu problem.dropdown are not show.
@gargvipan, Hi there,
Do you use twenty ten theme?
Thanks for the video. I am starting my first website and was trying to figure out the drop down menu. Much appreciated!
@BD, Hey,
you’re most welcome, and good luck with your new website :)
Have you figured out how to build a menu catagory that isn’t linked to an empty page?
In other words where the menu leads to sub menus but that menu isn’t linked to a page?
John
Hey John,
Sorry, i want to help, but i don’t understand what you mean? :(
i use wordpress 3.0 in localhost but i face the dropdown menu problem.dropdown are not show. I use Lucent as my theme
Hello Leo,
I have never used Lucent theme before. Because all themes are created differently, you may want to ask for support on the site where you got your theme downloaded.
Let me know if this helps.
Hi,
I am trying to use the drop down menu but I just can’t seem to do it.
I managed to link my pages to a main page but yet when I were to check the website, I just can’t see a drop down menu. Any idea why ?
Perhaps I can check your blog for which you already done this so I could have a clearer picture of it?
thanks
Victor,
Hmm, if i see your blog that you have tried to implement this method with, maybe i can help you easier.
But this is the blog that has applied this method: kimi9.byethost32.com/
If it is no longer twenty ten, then it is suspended because of a test dummy blog of mine LOL..
Kind regards,
Kimi.
This is a great tutorial. Thanks a lot for this.
This works with almost all the basic themes of wordpress.
This really helped me figure out my navigation bar drop down menu on my site. I was really scratching my head there for a while, trying to figure out how to activate the menu once it was created. Your video showed me my mistake and now my site is finally starting to look like what I have envisioned for it.
The dropdown menu does not show up on my page. I use twenty ten theme and use a free version of wordpress.
Hello Per,
I haven’t tried it with wordpress.com, free version, but I guess it should work.
Have you watched the video?
Kimi
I did watch the video and it did not reveal the answer. I found out how to create sub-menus from this:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
Hi Per,
Glad you found the solution! I actually made a similar videos here:
http://www.blog.web6.org/wordpress-change-home-page/
Kimi.