All right, so one more thing, under the appearance that I want to take a look at is the menu that's
very important because when you create pages on your website, they don't just naturally appear on the
website itself.
On the front end, you have to set up a menu and a navigation area and where that's going to go and
what goes in it.
Some things, some themes will pull in all pages by default.
You really don't want that, though.
Maybe you've got like several versions of a page or different things like that.
You don't want all that kind of stuff.
You really want to have full control over it.
So within an appearance under menus here, you'll see that by default there is just no menu created,
something to create one.
I usually call it main menu.
I can call it whatever you want.
That's really not displayed anywhere other than within the back end here where it does become important,
as if you start to have other menus, maybe you have a fuller menu, maybe of a sidebar menu, maybe
of a blog menu, and you have a mobile version of a menu, different things like that.
You're going to want to know what the name is, you know, where to put it properly.
But for the most part, we call this one main menu and fine with it.
And I say create menu.
Now we load that menu up with whatever pages we want in it.
So here's all my pages right now.
So you can see on our pages at the top all the pages that make them and websites are right here.
And I can choose all of them or just some of them maybe.
I don't want all of them.
They don't want sample page because that really wasn't a page that I created.
It's also added to the menu and the top one is going to be the menu items in the Phar Lap.
So these are actually kind of in reverse order.
So I have to do is just click and drag.
I can move these guys around.
If I wanted home page to have a dropdown I could say about just pull it over to the right a little bit
and you can see this changes to sub item that makes the dropdown item from the main menu.
We're going to keep that the way that is right now.
If I wanted to, I could also put my post in the menu.
Now, I really don't want to do that here.
There's better ways to do that.
You can create a custom link.
So maybe you want to link out to another website or your Facebook page or something like that.
You could put the full U.
URL and the title of it in here somewhere, which is a placeholder right there.
And I'll say.
All right, so now I can create a whole new page or a link, basically, you can see that one is called
custom link, though, as opposed to a page right there.
So I can have that go out now.
I can also pull in some of those categories that I was using in my blog post.
So if I wanted to again, maybe the majority of my website is all about blogging and all the navigation
should be all the different categories so people can find what they're looking for.
This would be a good place to put those categories into.
I can add them the same way I have everything else.
But for right now, this is cool and would say save.
Now this is half the battle.
So we've created the menu, we've added the pages to it.
Now we have to say where that's going to go and that's where it's going to change from blog excuse me,
a template to template and see up here.
And I've got Manege locations.
Some teams are going to have one or two areas to put a navigation area.
Some are going to have four and five.
So this one has the main navigation, which is going to be right here.
And I'll say which menu?
See the main menu, social icons.
I didn't create any for that right now, so I'll leave that one blank.
But again, there could be a predefined footer navigation area or a mobile option, different things
like that, that I could have a different menu for that I want to put into there.
So I'll save save changes and I'll come back to my website and refresh.
And you can see on the left hand side now, now I've got home about contact and Facebook.
I could just as easily come back to my menu and say, you know, I don't want Facebook and there is
going to remove that.
I'm a save that and I'll come back and refresh this guy up here.
And Facebook went away.
So just like that, I was able to create all these pages, create the navigation area, and we got a
very nice looking theme.
Next thing I want to do is talk about some of the plugins that we're going to want to use for our website,
and they're going to get deeper into blogging.