Custom Menues

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  johncoolship · Member · Oct 30, 2011 at 5:08 am

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  I’m attempting to add 4 custom menues to the top of my page, next to the “About” menu. It seems that whatever theme I change the blog to, Theme Locations (Appearance -> Menues) on the left side of the screen tells me that “Your theme supports 1 menu. Select which menu you would like to use.” When this failed to work I attempted to set a custom menue widget, but none of those show up on my page either.Am I doing something wrong? How can I enable more menues on the top of the page?

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 30, 2011 at 5:16 am

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  You can’t. As it says, your theme supports one menu.

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  johncoolship · Member · Oct 30, 2011 at 5:25 am

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  Is that all there is to it? All of these themes support custom menues and most of them show multiple menues in the preview. That seems like a bit of a mislead.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 30, 2011 at 5:29 am

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  That’s all there is to it. I’m not sure if any themes support multiple custom menus at WordPress.com, but they do at WordPress.org, depending on your technical skill of course.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 30, 2011 at 5:29 am

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  That’s all there is to it. I’m not sure if any themes support multiple custom menus at WordPress.com, but they do at WordPress.org, depending on your technical skill of course.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 30, 2011 at 5:31 am

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  You have a misunderstanding. There is one primary top menu location. Each entry in that top location is not a “menu” but a “menu item” and menus can have as many items within a menu as is practicable given the space.

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  johncoolship · Member · Oct 30, 2011 at 5:37 am

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  Ok. Basically I just want a set of tabs on the front page that filters my posts for people visiting the blog. So if someone is seeing the front page there would be a button they could hit to see all of the posts under one category. Is there a way to put that on the front page?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 30, 2011 at 5:42 am

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  Yes, you can do that with a custom menu. Create the custom menu and then you can add your categories, pages and even custom links to that menu as you see fit. If you have a lot of categories, it might be best to do them as a dropdown (submenu) or perhaps even a couple if your categories can be organized that way. If you just have a few categories then you can leave them as top level menu items.

  See this support document on making a custom menu and on how to create submenus and such.

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  johncoolship · Member · Oct 30, 2011 at 5:49 am

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  Thanks for the help. I think I actually got it to do what I was looking for.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 30, 2011 at 5:53 am

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  You are welcome, and if you have anymore questions, you know where we are.