WordPress 3.0 Custom Menus Hidden Settings

The other day, I was playing around with the new WordPress menus that came with version 3.0 and up; I created a new menu and throwed some pages and posts in the same menu, which was a cool and an easy task. I figure out that you can create a custom link with whatever you like in it, so I added all my social networks in a sub-menu, which was an easy task too, until I find out that when you click one of this external links on the menu, it opened on the same page, and since I didn’t want my visitors to leave my blog but to open the external link in a new window, it got me thinking that this was worthless. I started looking into the code which took me a lot of time and no results, then I started browsing the web and stumble upon a thread at wordpress.org that had the answer to my problem. While reading it, I felt so stupid because the answer was just standing in front of me all this time.

I found out that day that WordPress is becoming extremely friendly and easy to manipulate, We are so use to change things from the core that most of the time we don’t realize that somebody else has already been through all that trouble to make our lives easier.

So here is the stupid answer >

Go to > Appearance > Menus

Under your Menus Admin Go to > Screen Options and CLICK it

There you will find a lot of cool stuff to add , like

Posts > If you want to add a single Post or Article to one of your Menus

Post Tags> If you want to add a tag to your menu that redirects to the archive

Link Target> To check how you would like your custom link to be open : Same Window or Tab or New Window or Tab

CSS Classes> To include some cool stuff to your Menus, like Custom Icons to go with each link , like the ones that are on my menu ( Twitter and Facebook )