By Don Campbell
Expert Author
Article Date: 2010-08-09
One of the coolest new features in WordPress 3.0 is the custom navigation menus built into the WordPress core.
Here's a video that shows you how to use them to customize your navigation.
The new Menus section under Appearance allows you to create custom menus, and do all kinds of neat customization:
Omit pages from your navigation menu
Add Sub-menu items
Reorder your navigation menu items
Use custom labels for your nav menu items
Add custom links to any page (even off of your website)
Create pages based on categories
Note that your WordPress theme needs to support this new menu system - many WordPress themes had their own menu and submenu system built into the theme.
We've adopted the new menus in the SmallBiz 3.0 WordPress Theme so you can customize your menus until your heart is content!
About the Author:
Don is President and founder of Expand2Web.com, which provides WordPress Websites and Local Search Marketing solutions and training for small business owners and consultants.
Don is a veteran of Silicon Valley Startup Interwoven, where he was created a $5M product line and Microsoft where he was technical evangelist for Office and Office Live. Check out his blog at http://www.expand2web.com/blog.
By Don Campbell