Using a Top Bar for Navigation

The UMW theme has an option of creating a top bar for your navigation. You can use the top bar in one of two ways:

Top Bar Automatically Populated by Top-Level Pages

Currently, most sites are set to use the sidebar to populate automatically. This would switch that to the top bar.

  • Advantages: No manual updating
  • Disadvantages: Must limit number and size of primary links so that top bar will fit the width. If you have a long sidebar of wordy links, this is not for you.

Top Bar Manually Populated by a Custom Menu

This method will put a custom menu in your top bar.

  • Advantages: Greater control over the top bar menu. Greater flexibility in navigation
  • Disadvantages: Requires manual update, so, if you add a page, you need to be mindful of adding a link to it in the top bar.

LEARN HOW TO CREATE THIS TYPE OF MENU BAR >