This article is Part 2 in our series of screencast tutorials on adding WordPress 3 Menus to your existing WordPress site or theme.
Part 2 – Setting up and Customizing your menu in WordPress:
As WordPress developers and educators, we are often asked questions about configuring and customizing WordPress menus.
In the past, there has never been a standard way to implement a menu in WordPress. There are solutions ranging from elegant custom written code, to hacks and static hard-coding that is difficult to manage and maintain.
With the recent launch of WordPress 3, a new navigation and menu system has been introduced. Many of you will want to learn how to implement this powerful new function to your existing WordPress theme, so we have produced a series of screencast tutorials.
There are generally 4 steps required to do this:
We have developed a video tutorial to walk you through the basics of each of these steps.
Introduction
Part 1: Enabling menus in your WordPress Theme
In Part 1, we modify our theme functions file (functions.php) to enable one custom menu:
Here is the code to add to functions.php:
add_action( ‘init’, ‘register_menu’ );
function register_menu() {
register_nav_menus(
array(
‘menu-1′ => __( ‘Main Menu’ )
)
);
}
In Part 2, we will look at how to configure the menu in the WordPress admin. Stay tuned!
Update: Part 2 has been added. Check it out!
Wordcamp Vancouver will be upon us in less than than a week and we’re pretty excited here at LIT. We are one of the event sponsors and we’re really looking forward to getting to meet you all on June 12th at the Museum of Vancouver for some great learning opportunities.
Wordcamps are a great opportunity to network with other WordPress users and learn some new tips and tricks for making the most of your WordPress site or learning WP development skills.
Our very own Dave Zille is going to be contributing on stage as well, by participating in the panel discussion on WordPress as a CMS, alongside of Cam Cavers and Christine Rondeau. He’s also going to be part of the Genius Bar, although, we are downplaying that angle – we want to make sure Dave can get his head through the door when he arrives 
Unfortunately, the event is already sold out but if you are still wanting to go, they have announced that they are hoping to release more tickets in the coming days. Check the Event Brite page or the Wordcamp blog often to see if tickets have been released.
Just a quick post to say that Dave is back from Wordcamp Victoria and he had a great time presenting and getting the opportunity to meet many of you who were there. It was great to see the event so full and lots of enthusiastic wordpressians in attendance (we’re thinking we might take credit for “wordpressian” as a word. hehe).
Judging by the twitter feedback, lots of you really enjoyed Dave’s presentation on Custom Post Types in WordPress 3. If you missed it or you want a refresher, we’ve made the presentation slides available on Dave’s blog at dazil.com. If you have any questions, leave us a note in the comments and Dave will be happy to get you some more information.
LIT will be participating in WordCamp Victoria on May 15th, where our very own Dave Zille will be speaking about Custom Post Types in WordPress 3 and will also be joining in as part of the Technical Panel along with Tris Hussey and Lloyd Budd.
For those of you new to WordPress, Wordcamps are local WordPress “mini-conventions” with a more intimate feel to them. WordCamp Victoria has a great line up of speakers so if you live in the Victoria area and have always wanted to know more about WordPress and what it can do, or if you’ve already got your feet wet and want to move to the next level, consider going to the event.
You will learn a lot, have some fun, and have the opportunity to meet other like minded WordPressians (is that a word? We don’t know but we’re going to take credit for it!)