Pages and custom menus

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  louisgaudry · Member · Dec 9, 2013 at 10:31 pm

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  Do I make custom menus first or my pages first?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 9, 2013 at 10:36 pm

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  Pages first and Custom Menu second. :)
  Please read this first Post vs. Page http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  (1) There is only one page we can post to in any blog.
  (2) The static pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ we bloggers create do not automatically update.

  Only the dynamic pages like Archives, Categories and Tags created by the software when we publish a post will update automatically update with new posts.

  By default the front page of the blog is the Page that displays all posts in your blog. You can create a static front page and have your published posts display on another page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ but doing that does not change what follows.

  Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

  This guide will walk you through how to create category pages for your blog, to display groupings of similar posts on pages other than your front page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/

  Here’s a link to my post on this http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/

  There are many common errors, misunderstandings and misconceptions when creating custom menus and there are some tweaks you can use to improve your custom menu as well.

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  louisgaudry · Member · Dec 9, 2013 at 10:44 pm

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  Thank you. I had pages mad first. Then tried to link the menus to external webpages. It doesn’t seem to work. I know I have done it before. Is there away I can delete all pages and menus and start from scratch? :)

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  timethief · Member · Dec 9, 2013 at 10:49 pm

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  > Appearance > Menus
  See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-pages
  and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links

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  louisgaudry · Member · Dec 10, 2013 at 12:27 am

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  Thank you very much. this was very helpful. Can I change the menu tabs color and the navigation background?