How do you add pages to navigation

  • There is no edit menu feature anymore under the side menu “Appearance”.

    The editor has a navigation option, but if this is where you add or remove pages/post/links how does this enable you to do it?
    I clicked on every menu and item with no success.

    This is not unintuitive design, this is intentional obfuscation.

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  • Thread Starter SNightwolf

    (@snightwolf)

    After hours of struggling I noticed that:
    1. “navigation” on the left sidebar is only designed to create more menus and nothing else.
    2. Clicking on the webpage preview hides left sidebar and give access to right sidebar.
    3. Clicking on the intended page navigation selects the first link instead of entire navigation block.
    4. From there you can use settings on right sidebar to “breadcrumb” back to page navigation.
    5. This is where you can add and remove your website pages/post/links/logos

    Having to click 4 times to reach the edit website navigation is mind-blowingly insane. That is not 4 intuitive clicks, but clicks that each seem to work on different aspects of design.

    I say this not lightly, but this is not an oversight, this is intentional sabotage.

    You cannot have existing website creators look for a basic feature for over 10 minutes nor expect them to watch a training video for new convoluted design ideas.

    How about reading the manual?

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    Thread Starter SNightwolf

    (@snightwolf)

    Reading a manual for a theme? That could change yearly? That is the default setup?
    Notice I said specifically spending 10 minutes to get to grips with an unrequested change is not a sane decision. That manual would take me 30-60 mins if I am uninterrupted.

    But having 5 clicks to get to a basic feature that previously took 1 click is just sabotage. I do 1 new website every 4 months, and having to set one up in less than 1 hour is what I plan for, bill for and allocate time for.

    This is not insignificant issue to me, and the reason you don’t develop a website from scratch yourself is because WordPress does a lot of the tedious steps automatically. This is bringing tedious back into the website creation, the precise opposite of what WordPress should aim for.

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