Theme Menu Ideas: Types of Themed Menus

To edit your site's main menu, start from your dashboard and open Appearance in the left sidebar, then select Menus. This is the central hub for website navigation.

The editor is split into two columns: the left side is your inventory of available links, while the right side shows your active menu structure.

Your task is straightforward: choose items from the inventory and add them to the menu structure that visitors actually use.

If you've added links, clicked save, and still saw no change on the live site, this is usually why: menu structure and display location are two separate settings.

Think of the menu as a framed picture, and theme locations as hooks on the wall. You can build a perfect menu, but it remains invisible until attached to one of your theme's available hooks.

In Menu Settings, check location options such as Primary Navigation or Footer Menu. This is what makes your updates go live.

You can fully control navigation with three core actions:

• Add a Page: select a page from the left panel and use Add to Menu.
• Reorder an Item: drag a menu item in the structure to place it where you need.
• Remove an Item: expand an item and click Remove.

With these simple steps, you can keep your website navigation relevant and easy to use.

Drop-down menus help keep top-level navigation clean while still giving access to related pages.

To create one, make a parent/child relationship by dragging a sub-item slightly to the right beneath its parent. The indentation signals that it is now a nested link.

After saving, your site automatically renders this structure as a drop-down. The child item appears only when visitors hover over the parent.

You are the architect of your site's navigation.

OVA tip: build the menu first, then assign it to the correct theme location.

Once you apply this workflow, you can add, remove, and reorganize links confidently so visitors always find your most important pages.