How to Create and Use WordPress Custom Menus

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WordPress 3.0 introduced users to a powerful feature: custom menus.
Now, without the need for plugins, we can exclude, include, and rearrange our page links at will, displaying a different menu for different pages, and with some code, even different users entirely.

How to Create a Custom WordPress Menu

Creating a custom menu is simple. Log into your WordPress Administrative Dashboard and select “Menus” under the appearance tab. From here, select the “Menu Name” input and give your new custom menu a title. Anything works, but let’s use “Main Menu” for the purposes of this tutorial. Once you’ve typed that in, hit the blue “Create Menu” button.

Alright, now we’ve got a new custom menu setup, but we need to add some links. There are three types of things we can add to our menu: Custom Links, Pages, and Categories. Custom Links let you link to external pages (great for incorporating network websites, related projects, and affiliate links). 

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