Chris K Designs

With the release of WordPress 3.0 came one of the most sought after features from the WordPress Community, custom menus. Custom Menus allow users to create menus in a visual editor and, given their theme supports it, assign them to different types of pages or posts. Previously it was up to the theme developer to give you the option to change the navigation. As with anything in WordPress, there’s the basic functionality and then there’s taking it to the advanced level. Did you know there are advanced settings for your custom menus? You can alter the ‘target’ a menu open loads into, the CSS Class of this item, or even the ‘rel’ type? It’s all cleverly hidden from the everyday user in the ‘Screen Options’ item in the upper right corner of the Appearance -> Menus area of wp-admin.

In the upper right corner of the menus page