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How to add a page to your menu

jezwebtutorials.com.au · WordPress · about 1 minute · guide generated 2026-06-17

Your navigation menu is the row of links across the top of your site — Home, About, Contact and so on. When you add a new page, it doesn't appear in the menu automatically; you choose what goes there and in what order. This is done in WordPress itself, under Appearance → Menus — no page builder needed. This short guide shows you how to add a page, reorder it, and even turn it into a drop-down sub-item.

▶ Watch the narrated walkthrough (with audio), jump to a step, or follow the written steps below.

1

Open Appearance → Menus

Log in to your WordPress dashboard. In the left-hand menu, hover over Appearance and click Menus. This is the screen where you build and arrange your site's navigation links.

Step 1: Open Appearance → Menus
2

Find the Pages box

On the right you'll see your Menu structure — every link currently showing on your site, in order. On the left is the Pages box, listing the pages you can add. Use the Most Recent, View All or Search tabs to find the page you want.

Step 2: Find the Pages box
3

Tick the page and click Add to Menu

Tick the checkbox next to the page you'd like to add — we'll use the Thank You page — then click Add to Menu. The page drops into the menu structure on the right.

Step 3: Tick the page and click Add to Menu (animation)
4

Drag to reorder (and indent for sub-items)

Your new link lands at the bottom of the structure. Click and drag it up or down to set its position in the menu.
Tip: drag a menu item slightly to the right and it tucks underneath the item above it as a drop-down sub-item — a neat way to group related pages, like putting several service pages under a single Services link.

Step 4: Drag to reorder (and indent for sub-items)
5

Save your menu

When everything's in the right place, click the Save Menu button. Your changes go live straight away and visitors will see the new link in your navigation.

Step 5: Save your menu
The pattern is always the same: Appearance → Menus, tick the page in the Pages box, click Add to Menu, drag it into position, then Save Menu. To remove a link later, click the little arrow on the menu item to expand it and choose Remove — that takes it out of the menu without deleting the page itself.