Create a navigation menu

Create a navigation menu in WordPress — with the four heights of help laid out: do it now, make it easier for the next person to accept, work out the right move when you are stuck, and learn the pattern so it stops coming back.

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The four heights

The same task, four distances: today's deadline, the next reviewer, the stuck moment, the pattern.

Execute — do the immediate task

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The site needs a main navigation. Create a menu called Main Menu, add links to Home, Blog, About,…
The site needs a main navigation. Create a menu called Main Menu, add links to Home, Blog, About, and Contact in that order, assign it to the theme’s primary location, save, and confirm the menu appears in the header on desktop and mobile.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Before I hand this to the client, make the menu as approval-friendly as possible — surface the…
Before I hand this to the client, make the menu as approval-friendly as possible — surface the top-level pages to include, show their order and labels, explain where the menu will appear and how it collapses on mobile, and flag any pages with unpublished or draft status that would break menu items.

Decide — diagnose the stuck moment

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I added Home, Blog, About, Contact to the Main Menu but clicking Contact returns a 404 because the…

I built the menu but Contact points to a draft page

I added Home, Blog, About, Contact to the Main Menu but clicking Contact returns a 404 because the page is still draft. The client, Priya in procurement, expects the link live by Friday. I’m not sure whether to publish the page now or swap the menu link to a working contact form. What should I do to meet the deadline with the least risk?

Become — change the pattern

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Across several sites, the navigation breaks when clients rename pages or forget to publish them,…

Menus keep breaking when pages are drafted or renamed

Across several sites, the navigation breaks when clients rename pages or forget to publish them, and I end up rebuilding menus. Which habit or lightweight process should I institute so menus remain stable and don’t need constant manual fixes?

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