whats the dif? custom menu or parent pages

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  mtraill1 · Member · Jan 24, 2011 at 2:05 am

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  I am new to wordpress.com and am creating a static site with pages only. So far I have two pages that show up as tabs in my header. But now I am contemplating creating a custom menu. I am unclear as to the difference between parent pages and custom menu. Seems they do the same thing. Can someone please clarify?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 24, 2011 at 4:42 am

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  First off, without using the custom menu, not all themes here will show child pages as dropdowns. Only about maybe ten or so. The custom menu offers a lot greater flexibility since you do not have to set parent and child status. Any page can be made a dropdown off of any other. You can also add categories, tags, individual posts and custom links to custom menus that you cannot with the standard menus.

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  mtraill1 · Member · Jan 24, 2011 at 5:05 am

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  Thanks for your reply. I hear what you are saying about the custom menu providing more possibilities and functions. I am using the theme Under the Influence and did manage to make dropdown child pages. I also tried creating a custom menu, but found it a bit complicated for me right now.

  I feel a bit more comfortable proceeding with parent-child pages for now. Will I be able to reassign them to a custom menu in the future? Will that be too problematic?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 24, 2011 at 5:14 am

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  You are welcome.

  You can switch to a custom menu at any time and it isn’t anymore complicated. Just in case you have not seen it, here is the support document on custom menus.

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  mtraill1 · Member · Jan 24, 2011 at 5:22 am

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  Thanks again. I will give it a try sometime, soon.