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  ckingwords · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 2:17 am

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  I have read the forum on Custom Menus and I followed the directions. I set themes to only search for one that allow custom menus and I have looked at other people’s blogs. I see many people with 3 or 4 menus at the top of their page, and I want that. However, even when I select a theme that claims to support Custom Menus and I try to make more than one menu I get the message that says, “Your theme supports 1 menu. Select which menu you would like to use.” How I want a “home”, “poetry” and a “my thoughts” menu. How do I get more than one menu?

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  ckingwords

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 2:48 am

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  You have some confusion. The entire band at the top is the “menu.” The menu can have as many “tabs” (menu items) as you wish – or practical given available space. Home, About, Poetry, My Thoughts would all be “menu items.”

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 2:49 am

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  The WP lingo is confusing you.
  • A menu is a group of clickable tabs; each tab is a menu item. Check the theme demo:

  http://pianoblackdemo.wordpress.com/
  
”Home”, “A Parent Page” “HTML ELements” etc. are menu items; all of them together are your top nav menu (= group of tabs in the header area).
  • Supports one menu means one top nav menu. You can create and display as many custom menus as you like: one in the header area, the rest in your sidebar (by adding Custom menu widgets).
  • Menu items can include sub-items. Sub-items will appear as dropdowns in your top nav menu, as indented lists in your sidebar menu(s).
  • Instructions here:

  Menus

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  ckingwords · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 2:59 am

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  Thank you I was making this a lot harder than it was!