13. Adding and Managing Menus

Your website’s menu is an important navigational tool, but a properly structured menu can do much more than direct visitors to the content on your site. The right menu can also help retain visitors and encourage sales.

Timesaver

If you created a sitemap for your site, as recommended in Chapter 1, “Introducing WordPress,” you should already know what menus and submenus your site needs. Using this plan, you can create a menu much faster.

By default, your WordPress menu displays a link to your home page and your site’s pages in alphabetical order. If you have only a few pages, this might work just fine. If you want to customize your menu, ...

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