WordPress Menu Best Practices and Policies

Summary

Instructions

Navigate to your menu: Dashboard > Appearance > Menus
Create a new Menu
Select a menu to edit: Mega Menu (Primary Menu)
To add categories use the Pages, Posts, Custom Links, and Categories tabs listed on the left side of screen
- If you'd like to directly link to one of the above that you've already created (i.e., a post or page) you can do so using those tabs
- If you'd like to create a drop down category use the Custom Links option
  - For URL insert mlml.calstate.edu - you can delete the URL link once it's added to the menu
  - Insert desired title of category in Link Text
  - Add to Menu
  - Click drop down arrow on newly created category and delete the URL linked
For Drop Down Menus where you'd like to add subcategories with links or links to other pages:
- Hover over the main menu category you'd like to create a drop down for
- Select Mega Menu button that appears in blue
- For "Sub menu display mode" choose "Mega Menu - Standard Layout"
- Select a Widget to add to the panel: "Layout Builder"
- 2 columns
To edit the Layout Builder in drop down menu:
- Select the wrench on the right hand side of Layout Builder widget
- Select Open Builder
- Add desired number of rows with desired number of columns
  - The number of columns can be useful to place subcategories directly under the portion of the drop down menu that you want (i.e., more towards the right side of the menu, left side or middle)
- Add a SiteOrigin Editor widget to make a list of Pages that you'd like to link to

Visual Instructions

Appearance > Menus > Mega Menu (Primary Menu)

Use Layout Builder. Click the Wrench icon on the right to edit

Open Builder:

Here you have the standard Page Builder interface where you can add rows, columns, and widgets to create menu items.