{"id":865,"date":"2025-02-14T20:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/?p=865"},"modified":"2025-02-14T20:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:46:44","slug":"changing-the-site-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/art-and-humanities-portfolio\/changing-the-site-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the Site Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">site menu<\/a> dictates the navigation menu for your site that is available to users on every site page, as well as how it is structured (for example, with subpage child menu items that appear underneath a parent item). Currently your site is set to automatically add new top-level pages to your site menu: you can change this from Appearance &gt; Menus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-1.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-1-1024x484.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the Menu settings in the portfolio template\" class=\"wp-image-851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-1-1024x484.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-1-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-1-768x363.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-1.png 1269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Menu editing<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hover over <strong>Appearance<\/strong> in the left-hand navigation menu, then click <strong>Menus<\/strong>. This will bring up the menu editing page.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The active menu we have created for your site is called \u201cPrimary.\u201d Under <strong>Menu structure<\/strong> you can drag and drop existing items to reorder them or create dropdowns or select items from <strong>Add menu items<\/strong> on the right-hand side to add additional Pages (either <strong>Most Recent<\/strong>, <strong>View All<\/strong>, or <strong>Search<\/strong> from the tabs at the top) and more to the menu.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You can set your site to automatically add top-level pages to the menu from here, if you would like.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you want one of your menu items to be a link to a file (such as a PDF hosted in the site Media Library) or an external link, click <strong>Custom Links<\/strong> (under <strong>Add menu items<\/strong>), add the file\u2019s URL to the URL box, and your desired title to the link text box.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your site menu dictates the navigation menu for your site that is available to users on every site page, as well as how it is structured (for example, with subpage child menu items that appear underneath a parent item). Currently your site is set to automatically add new top-level pages to your site menu: you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-humanities-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}