See: http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide
It may also depend on the theme you are using.
Thank you WPyogi
I’m using twenty eleven…
Okay, you should be able to create drop-down menus then – just see that linked article above. If you need more help, can you explain more?
Thanks again.
I’ve made a bit of progress.
I’ve managed to group a couple of sub-headings under the primary page (hello). But my other pages have now disappeared from the horizontal bar. I’d like to have a horizontal strip with main titles and then sub-heading (sub-menus) underneath them. Not sure why the other pages don’t show now?
Can you post a link to your site?
Is this what you’re after?
http://www.alloneworld.org
So it doesn’t look like you created a menu and added pages to it? Under Appearance > Menu ?
WPyogi, really appreciate your input.
I started out with a horizontal menu with titles such as:
Home, About, Workshops, Blog, Contact Me
I’m trying to group some of these under main headings.
I’d like to change Home to read ‘Hello’ as the main (static page) and then have other pages such as Workshops, Conact Me etc.
I’ve just seen that twenty eleven says it only supports 1 menu. Maybe I’m using the wrong theme? I don’t mind having just one main menu so long as the other pages can show up as well. It seems that I can either have Hello with a drop down menu and nothing else, OR, I can have Home, About, Workshops etc. with no drop-downs?
One menu just means there is only one place on the site for a menu – but that menu can have many items. Some themes have additional menus – for example in the footer.
Twentyeleven should do what you are describing – just double checked on a test site and it works fine.
Did you create a menu? Then you have to click on Manage Locations tab and select that menu for primary menu location. Then go back to the other screen and arrange the pages the way you want.
Okay – I’ve created a menu and selected it for primary menu location. This is the one you now see on the site (hello). I’ve got other pages too, but they’ve disappeared. I don’t want these pages to be in the menu but rather to stand alone horizontally across the bar.
When you say go back to the other screen and arrange the pages the way you want, I’m not sure what you mean. Gone to Appearance, Menu and created a menu from the list of pages on the left (selecting only the pages I want to group under the main page).
Then when I go back to pages, the other pages are all there but none of them are showing on the site. I think this is where I’m getting stuck now.
Gone to Appearance, Menu and created a menu from the list of pages on the left (selecting only the pages I want to group under the main page).
So you moved those from the left column to the box on the right? And then saved the menu?
Yes, that’s exactly what I did. The ‘menu’ now appears on the website (under ‘Hello”, there are two sub-menus showing: ‘What’s it all about’ and ‘Meanings’.
This bit is fine.
The problem is that the other pages (that I don’t want to incorporate into the menu but want to publish on the horizontal bar (such as Contact Me), aren’t showing on the website anymore. When I go to Pages, they are all still there (Contact Me, Workshops & My Blog), but they don’t show up on the website even though it says that they’re published.
Do you have any plugins active? Can you deactivate any to see if they are causing problems. Also try switching to another default theme – say, twentytwelve to see if it’s a problem with that theme.
If you look at the site now, I’ve reverted back to the standard horizontal titles without any menus. And now ‘home’ appears instead of ‘hello’ and all the other titles are standing alone.
I’m trying to get it to look like this (in a horizontal format across the bar:
Hello
sub-heading: What’s it all About
sub-heading: Meanings
Workshops (no menu or sub-headings)
Blog (no menu or sub-headings)
Contact me(no menu or sub-headings)
Switched off all plugins but no change
