Navigation bar

The navigation bar supports your sites brand (text or logo), navigation and a search area. This guide will only cover customizing the navigation bar but additional changes can be made as part of WordPress full site editing.

Setting a logo

  1. Navigate to Appearance -> Editor
  2. Click on the navigation bar and then click on the site brand which is on the left of the navigation bar
  3. Some options will appear for customising the site brand. One of these looks like a location marker, click on this
  4. Click on the site logo option
  5. Click on the upload symbol and select or upload the site logo you wish to use
  6. Click save, located at the top right of the window

Setting / creating a navigation menu

  1. Navigate to Appearance -> Editor
  2. Click on the navigation bar and then click on the menu in the center of the navigation bar
  3. Click select menu
    1. If a menu already exists, that can be selected now
    2. Alternatively, select create new menu if you wish to create a menu from scratch. The plus icon can be used to add new menu items
  4. Click save, located at the top right of the window

Updating the navigation bar after updating Bootscout

WordPress 5.9 introduced theme parts which we are using the the navigation bar. If an update for Bootscout makes a change to the navigation bar this is not automatically applied to the navigation bar on your site. To apply the updated version to your site you will need to reset the navigation bar before reapplying the changes you have made.

  1. Navigate to Appearance -> Editor
  2. Click on page at the top center of the window
  3. A small menu will be displayed with two items at the bottom; Header and Footer
  4. Click on the three dots to the right of header before clicking on reset customizations
  5. Click save, located at the top right of the window
  6. Reapply any customisations you had previously applied to the navigation bar
  7. Click save, located at the top right of the window