Top level menu in Arras theme

After spending 2 or 3 hours in a search for a perfect WordPress theme, I settled on Arras theme. I think it’s a decent looking theme and I liked the fact that it offers the so called “featured stories” slideshow on the top page with thumbnails for each story. This thumbnail grid view can also be used in search results, such as category listings, so I thought it’ll work quite well for a page that is going to host lots of little projects.

Still haven’t thought the exact structure as just yet, but I see it coming.

Anyway, again, being a complete dummy when it comes to WordPress configuration, I struggled with the top menu. From the first glance at the Arras theme config it seemed that I can either link to site pages or categories. So what I want is this: links to some (not all, just some!) categories and a link to a page (to be precise: about page). Neither of the two provided me with this functionality.

There is a third option, that I overlooked: link category. It allows you to pick a link category, such as blogroll, and display all links in the menu. Yeah right, why would I need that, I thought. But then it clicked – I can put any links I want, like links to my categories and pages and display it there. I can even link to individual posts.

How cool is that?! There’s one (or may be more, but I haven’t come across them yet) drawback – you need to specify all links manually. Would be really nice if I could just select from all the resources available on my site.

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