How to Create a Custom Menu in WordPress (Step by Step)

Опубликовано: 04 Март 2026
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In this video, we're going to cover how to create a navigation menu in WordPress.

See, when we first install WordPress, any pages we create are automatically added to our menu, in the order we create them.

But if we create a custom menu, we can choose which of our pages and posts appear in our menu, and in what order.

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