‫In this lecture of the course, we will be creating our menu for the blog website.
‫So let's just go ahead and let's get started.
‫Now, as you can see that I have added some of the post over here.
‫You can see all of the posts if you go into the dashboard, and if you go into the all post, you can
‫see that I have got uh, 33 posts published, and this is the one that I told you to at least add 3
‫to 5 posts per destination so that when you were designing the website, uh, you can see all of the
‫posts and the design should look amazing.
‫Along with that, you should also be seeing the pagination as well.
‫This is something that we will be talking later on.
‫Um, in the next lecture, probably uh, when we will be designing the website.
‫So that is why you need to have at least 20 number of the posts.
‫If you do not have it, make sure that you do add some of the posts so that you do get at least 20 number
‫of the posts.
‫Now in this lecture of the course, we will be creating a menu for our blog website.
‫So let's take a look at the demo website.
‫Uh, you can see that this is Travel Freak com, which is one of the best, uh, travel blogs out there.
‫Now, if you take a look at the menu of this website, uh, this guy has got about, uh, where he has
‫shown some of the things about himself.
‫Then he has got some of the categories, and after that, he has got a destination dropdown as well,
‫so that the person can just hover over any of the destination, click on that and he will be taken to
‫that particular destination page.
‫This is something this is how we will be actually creating our menu to be.
‫So let's just go ahead and let's get started.
‫Now, the very first thing that you need to do is to go into the appearance and then click on the themes
‫and make sure that you do have got the 2019 theme activated.
‫If you do not have it, click on the Add New Search for the 2019 theme and make sure that you do activate
‫this theme.
‫Now, the reason why we are using this theme is because this theme is pretty basic, and we will not
‫be using this theme.
‫We will be eventually shifting to another theme from the next lecture, but I want to use the basic
‫theme for now.
‫Uh, once we're done with everything, then we will be moving to another theme, probably from the next
‫lecture.
‫So make sure that you do have got this 2019 theme activated.
‫And after that you need to click on the menus.
‫Now once you are on the menus page now you have to create your first new menu.
‫So we will be naming our menu to be menu one.
‫And once we are done with that we can now click on Create Menu.
‫Now first of all what we need to do.
‫We need to add our home link which is going to be our home page so that if anyone just clicks on the
‫home, he will be taken to the root page of the website and how you're going to add it.
‫You can just click on the View all on the pages tab.
‫You can click on the home and you can click on add to menu.
‫And this is going to be added.
‫Now you can click on save menu.
‫And now if you visit the website you can see that the menu doesn't appear.
‫And the reason for that is because we haven't set the location.
‫So let's select Primary Save menu and let's refresh the website.
‫There you have it.
‫Now you can see that we've got the home.
‫And if you click on the home, we are taken to the main home page.
‫After that, what we need, we need to add a simple page that is going to be about page.
‫Let's go into the pages.
‫Let's click on Add New page and let's create our about page.
‫After that.
‫Now I'll be clicking on publish.
‫Now I'm not adding any of the content.
‫You can add it.
‫You know the Gutenberg right here.
‫So if you want to add the, uh, information about yourself with the images, you can pretty much do
‫that.
‫Now, what you need to do is to go back to the menus.
‫And once you are in here, click on the view all on the pages, select the about.
‫Click on add to menu.
‫Once you're done with that, now you can see that we have got our home and about menu links over here,
‫which is normal.
‫And we did this already for our basic website.
‫Now what we need to do we need to add our categories.
‫So our categories are.
‫This like we want to add activities, foods, itineraries, stays and everything.
‫So we want to show these categories on the website.
‫Then how can we do that?
‫For that you need to just click on the categories.
‫If you are not seeing the categories, click on the screen options and then you can click on select
‫this categories and this will be shown.
‫All right.
‫So let's just click on here.
‫Now we need to click on view.
‫All and all of the categories will be shown.
‫After that you need to click on Select All.
‫And then you have to click on Add to menu.
‫So now we have got all of the categories like this.
‫But we don't need it this way.
‫We need a main one like this.
‫You can see that we have got a travel gear.
‫And if we hover our mouse onto it then we've got a drop down.
‫So we need it like this.
‫We need the main one to be actually the category.
‫So for that what we can do, we can click on the custom links in the URL.
‫You need to add the hash.
‫And in here you can write here.
‫Categories.
‫All right.
‫And you can click on add to menu.
‫So this is our drop down which is going to be the drop down trigger.
‫We can bring this up to the top right after the about.
‫Now we can make these to be the sub items.
‫So let's make this sub item activities foods itineraries.
‫Stays.
‫And now the Airbnb and hotel is actually the subitem of this stays.
‫So once we're done with that now we can click on save menu.
‫This menu is going to be saved.
‫And now if you visit the website again and you refresh, you can see that we've got home about categories,
‫activities, foods, itineraries, stays and the Airbnb and hotels.
‫Now if you click on any of the category, you will be taken to that particular category.
‫And all of the posts that are inside that category will be shown to you.
‫After that, what we need to do, we need to add our destinations.
‫So for that, you can see that we do not see any of the destination over here.
‫What you need to do.
‫You need to click on the screen options.
‫And right here you can see that we've got the destinations.
‫So you can click on here.
‫And the destinations will be appeared over here.
‫Now let's just put it back and let's open up the destinations we've got the most used and we've got
‫the view all.
‫So let's click on the view all.
‫And now we have to add these destination.
‫But before adding the destination let's first add the trigger like the categories we added.
‫Let's first add the one for the destinations.
‫So let's click on the custom links hash link text destinations add to menu which is going to be added.
‫And after that now we can click on the destinations View all, select all and add to menu and you will
‫see that these all will be added to menu.
‫Now first of all we need to bring America Illinois, Chicago which is a Subitem Asia Indonesia which
‫is a subitem.
‫Malaysia, which is a subitem.
‫Turkey which is a subitem.
‫So you can see that the destination is actually the parent one.
‫The America is a child.
‫Asia is the other child.
‫And then we have got Illinois as the child sub child of the America.
‫So this is how it's working.
‫Then we're going to bring the Europe as a child of destination, Germany as a child of Europe, Italy
‫and Paris as a child of Europe.
‫After that, we're going to bring Middle East as a child of destination, Qatar, as a child of Middle
‫East, Saudi Arabia as a child of Middle East and UAE, as a child of, uh, sorry.
‫Yeah, UAE as a child of Middle East.
‫Then we have to bring Abu Dhabi as a child of UAE and Dubai as a child of UAE.
‫That's it.
‫Now we can click on save menu.
‫Now once you're done with that.
‫Now if you visit the website click on the home.
‫You can see we've got the destinations America, Illinois.
‫And then we've got Chicago, Asia, Europe.
‫And we've got every of the destination over here.
‫So if I just click on the Germany, it's going to take me to the Germany page where all of the posts
‫regarding the Germany will be shown to me.
‫So our menu is completely done.
‫This is, uh, going to be a pretty basic blog website.
‫Now, if you you already know the drill, like if you want to add multiple things, like you want to
‫add a travel gear as another, uh, type of category, then you can create that, uh, using the CPT
‫UI like we did with the with the destination.
‫And you know the drill, like how it's going to work.
‫So now we've got our categories and the destination, and our menu is now 100% completed.
‫Now from the next lecture of the course we will be taking a look at the designing part.
‫So stay tuned and bye bye.