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A good news for all word press designers!.The custom navigation menu feature on word press would turn your site a more user friendly one for newbie designers. This feature makes you organize menu and one can create drop down menus also.

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Page 1: How to add custom navigation menus in wordpress

How to add custom navigation menus in Word press?

A good news for all word press designers!.The custom navigation menu

feature on word press would turn your site a more user friendly one for

newbie designers. This feature makes you organize menu and one can

create drop down menus also. One can add new items to the menu and

many more things can be done with this feature. The function of drag

and drop makes it easily usable. This new feature won’t be present in

old themes until and unless the author updates their themes. We

would teach you about custom navigation menus in this readout.

It has been observed that this website design in Jaipur theme is in great

demand in word press. You can construct multiple menus, add more

categories and pages to the menu. One can add customized links to the

menu also. One can organize menus as well as drop down menus with

simplified drag and drop option.

How to enable customized navigation menus in word press 3.0

With customized backgrounds, header images and thumbnails, the

customized navigation menu needs to be enabled with theme’s

functions.php file. You can add code below your php file(php

functions).

Use code:

Add_theme_support (‘menus’);

If this code does not gets added in functions.php file, the user would

not see it as an option in admin panel.

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How to make customized navigation menus in the word press theme

Once you have enabled this aspect, one can add this feature in the

theme.

The menus don’t remain constrained for header .php file only. One can

make it add anywhere where you want to fit your needs of designing by

pasting code below:

<?phpwp_nav_menu(array(‘sort_column’=>’menu

order’,’container_class’=>’menu-header’);?>.

The major function over here is wp_nav_menu. The arguments present

in the code are sort-column as well as container-class. The sort-column

specifies the word press to take on the order you choose in option

panel as well as container-class is called as styling class which you

choose for particular menu.

For customized menu themes: if you are making use of more than one

menu, then one needs to choose either the menu ID,menu name as

well as menu slug. The parameters used are: $sid, $menu and $slug

respectively. There is a website design company in Jaipur known as

Efforts Unlimited which has been into making website development for

more than seven years. Efforts objective is to remain leading provider

of web design and interactive solutions along with SEO services. In

order to achieve this objective, we focus on key business strategies.

Visit at: http://effortsunlimited.com/