WordPress 3+ includes the option to create custom menus via the WordPress Menu Manager found on the Dashboard under “Appearance” >> “Menus”. No matter what WordPress theme you use, as long as the theme is widget ready (pretty much all are theses days) you can create custom menus linking to literally anything with any anchor text from a custom menu widget on the sidebar. Custom Menu widgets give you far more control over what your sidebars links to and are a replacement to the old WordPress links (Blogroll) feature (removed from WordPress core). Quick tutorial: create a custom menu under the WordPress Menu Manager and use it under “Appearance” >> “Widgets” as a “Custom Menu” widget. WordPress Custom Menu Widget […]
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Hi
My stallion responsive theme does not show the custom menu widget in the appearance > widgets screen.
Are there any specific settings to enable/disable the wodget?
May thanks
David Allen
Enable WordPress Custom Menu Widgets
Stallion Responsive has an option to disable all widgets (one at a time) for performance reasons under “Stallion Theme” >> “Performance Options” (near the bottom: “Unregister Widgets”) have you ticked the “Default WP Widget Custom Menu” box by mistake?
Those that are ticked are unregistered (disabled). The idea is to tick the widgets you don’t use, so if you want to use custom menus as widgets, untick “Default WP Widget Custom Menu”.
Using the Unregister Widgets options means WordPress won’t be wasting resources on widgets you aren’t using: surprisingly some default WordPress widgets waste resources when not in use!
With custom menu widgets you also have to create custom menus under “Appearance” >> “Menus”, so if the Custom Menu widget is on the widgets page, but there’s nothing to select it’s because you have no custom menus.
David
Enable WordPress Custom Menu Widgets