Time for action – adding a custom link to the menu

WordPress lets you add custom links – which could be to a specific post in our site, to an external site, or to any link within our site. We'll use a custom link to add a link to the home page and call it The Zine.

  1. In the Custom Links box, type the URL of the site in the URL field. In our case it's http://rachelmccollin.co.uk/opensourcemagazine (or whatever URL you're using for your site).
  2. In the Label field, type the label you want WordPress to use for your link. It could be Home or in our case, we'll type The Zine.
  3. Click on the Add to Menu button. The custom link will appear in the menu on the right-hand side.
  4. Finally, drag the link up to the top of the menu so it's listed first and click on the Save Menu button.

What just happened?

We added a custom link, saved it to our menu, and moved it to the correct position.

In this case, it was necessary to use a custom link because the front page displays blog posts (which you set up in the Reading Settings page earlier). If the front page was a static page, you would simply add that page to your menu.

Here's how the Menus admin screen looks now:

What just happened?

The final step in creating our menu is to add a link to the Resources category.

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