{"id":84,"date":"2018-10-17T11:19:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T16:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/site2017\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:56:11","slug":"basic-overview-of-the-menu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/basic-overview-of-the-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Overview of the Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"107\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/files\/2020\/09\/MenuExample_Sidebar-107x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Menus section allows you to control the appearance of the menu on the right-hand (or left-hand) side of your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There are two types of menu items:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 12px;\">Page-independent<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Page-dependent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Page-independent<\/strong> menu items show up on every page and are on the &#8220;first tier&#8221; (displayed with a&nbsp;colored background).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Page-dependent<\/strong> menu items, on the other hand, only display if the parent page is displayed. These items appear under the parent page menu item in the &#8220;second tier&#8221; (displayed indented and without a background color).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Editing the menu<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to edit the menu, you&#8217;ll need to login to WordPress and navigate to the Menus screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 12px;\">Log in to WordPress<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hover over the &#8220;Appearance&#8221; tab on the left<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click &#8220;Menus&#8221; from the pop-out menu<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next, we&#8217;ll learn how to <a title=\"Adding pages\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/site2017\/adding-pages\/\">add pages to the menu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edit the main menu for your site, and control where it displays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1238,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_spp_custom_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/using-wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}