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How To Make Submenus Appear When You Mouse Over A Menu Link

• Create a new page called “Stuff”. Now click on PUBLISH

• Now create a new page called “School”. This time on the right side of the form you can select a PARENT page from a drop down menu. The parent page should be the new page you first made called “Stuff”. Select “Stuff” as the parent and PUBLISH this new page.

• Now go to your homepage and notice a new Menu item called “Stuff”. If you mouse over “Stuff” a submenu will appear called “School”.

Now you know how to make subpage menus in WordPress.

PLUGINS

• Go to the left menu in the Dashboard and click on PLUGINS.

• No click on ADD NEW

• Here you can SEARCH for plugins to install on your WordPress website

• Search for a plugin called “Contact Form 7″. The search results will appear in a list on your page. Click on the INSTALL NOW link underneath the plugin you want to install. In this case underneath “Contact Form 7″.

• Now the new contact plugin is installed.

• No go to the left menu on your Dashboard and towards the bottom is a link that says CONTACT. Click there and some form information appears in the middle of the screen.

• Copy all the text in the Brown Box.

• Now scroll down to the section that says MAIL and type in your email adddress.

• Scroll back up and click on the SAVE button and you are done configuring this plugin.

• Now you need to go create a new page and call it “Contact Me”. In the form for this new page paste in the Contact Code you copied just a moment ago from the plugin you just installed.

• Save Page then go to that page in another tab and fill out the form and check your email to make sure it works.

This concludes todays Plugin Lesson.

Once logged into Your WordPress Dashboard do the following:

1. Scroll down and click on “APPEARANCE”
2. A Submenu appears. Click on “WIDGETS”
3. Now in the middle of the screen are different things you can add to your side bar. You can add a list of pages, a list of posts, a calendar, a list of links or a search bar.
4. On the far right of the page is a list of sections you can add widgets to.
5. Click on the “Main Sidebar” right side of the widget area and it will open up.
6. Now drag “Pages” from the middle widget area to the “Main Sidebar” area you just opened up.
7. Now go to the other tab with your homepage in it and refresh/reload the page and you will see a list of pages on the sidebar menu of your website.
8. Go back and add a couple other widgets to the “Main Sidebar”.

The next lesson is going to be about plugins. Once you install a plugin most turn into a widget you can add just like the widgets you just added now.

Go to the “PLUGINS” section today if you have time and search for and install a plugin then add the widget to the sidebar!