Wrapping my brain around menus

Have you reviewed custom menus?

Yes. I’ve tried so many different things . . . and I’m finding it fairly frustrating. I don’t want parent pages and child pages, I want a MENU, categories for pages that show up where they’re supposed to on the sidebar, that are order-able. ARG. In the past have created my own themes and done wholesale changes on others’ themes but it’s been so long since I worked with any of this enough of it has changed to make the learning curve uglier than I care to discuss.

I’ve added custom menu widgets to my sidebar to place my menus. It’s giving me close to what I need but it still feels (and looks a bit) like a hack job. I remember this feeling when learning php/mysql many years ago. This too shall pass.

And now something else is broken. *sigh* Hopefully I can get it fixed without losing all my client’s input. This re-acquaintance with WP is happening whether I sigh or not so I’d better get back to it. TY for your time.