{"id":10671,"date":"2012-08-28T17:51:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T17:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technology.umw.edu\/wordpress101\/?page_id=10671"},"modified":"2012-08-28T21:12:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T21:12:38","slug":"using-a-top-bar-for-navigation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/technology.umw.edu\/wordpress101\/all-about-pages\/using-a-top-bar-for-navigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Using a Top Bar for Navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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:<\/p>\n<h2>Top Bar Automatically Populated by Top-Level Pages<\/h2>\n<p>Currently, most sites are set to use the sidebar to populate automatically. This would switch that to the top bar.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Advantages:<\/strong> No manual updating<\/li>\n<li><strong>Disadvantages:<\/strong> 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Create an Automatically-Populated Top Navigation Bar\" href=\"http:\/\/technology.umw.edu\/wordpress101\/all-about-pages\/using-a-top-bar-for-navigation\/create-an-automatically-populated-top-navigation-bar\/\">LEARN HOW TO CREATE THIS TYPE OF MENU BAR &gt;\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Top Bar Manually Populated by a Custom Menu<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This method will put a custom menu in your top bar.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Advantages:<\/strong> Greater control over the top bar menu. 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