Add a link to a wordpress menu bar

[Caleb Spilchen]

First, I'm not telling you how to add a page to the pages list, that could be possible but I don't know how you would exactly do that and don't want to mislead anyone..

What I'm going to tell you is how to add a page to the wordpress top menu bar.

Of course this will only work if you actually have a top bar. The default wordpress theme does not.

So first lets see what we have to start with.

I'm going to use my Advusion wordpress site as an example.

So heres my menu bar:



Now, I would like to add a link in that menu bar (because I'm feeling nice) to Webmaster Cage.. With the Anchor Webmaster Forum.

So open up your Wordpress admin page, at yoursite.com/wp-admin.

Go to the Appearance tab and click Editor (see screenshot):



Once you have the editor open..

Go to the sidebar and open up "Header.Php" (See screenshot)



Once you have that open find the following code:

<!-- Start Menu -->

Under that you should see some code like this:



Notice at the end there you see

 </ul> <!-- End Menu -->

Right before that tag add the following code:

 <li> <a href="http://webmastercage.com/"> Webmaster Forum </a> </li>

Of course you can change that to any URL you like.

Heres the result:



Wow we are done...

I hope this tutorial will help you guys out. I am nervous that I missed something or didn't explain it well enough...

But anyways ask me any questions you have in this thread. Your theme may be different so you may need to show me the header code in a PM but I will be sure to help you out.


Cheers,

Caleb

[Nomar]

Very good tutorial Caleb, really like this and I am definitely going to use it on some of my blogs! I gave you some rep points for this

[72666]

Well explained, love it =)

[Lukehluke]

Thats good
I will come back if I need to add a link

[21red]

Good thread! I think a lot of people are looking for this.

[danider]

Lol , awesome tutorial. Well written and with pictures. I love it. I will use it. 5 stars for this. Keep up the good work.

[niks00789]

nice tutorial mate! will come in handy for wp blogs.
Thanks for sharing

[sai_sidd]

Nice tutorial man! Very useful. I am sure it will be handy for me!

[zhoom]

These information can be helpful to all new users of wordpress. I've also search for this when I'm just a newbie with wordpress.

[Nomar]

All give rep to Caleb