Truly a neat little find for many people. I know when I saw this for the first I was beyond astounded.
It does seem a little odd to use one but there are some random cases when it can be useful. Rather than having to use a page you can use a post. Granted it will show up with all the other posts but it is a cool thing to know.
There are a few steps required:
- Create the post.
- Create a menu
- Create the menu item
The first thing is, of course, to create the post. Could be anything you want about whatever you want. A cat, a dog or even a random turtle you saw the other day.
Next, you want to create a menu. In order to do so you want to go to the Appearance section and select Menus. That will bring up the Menus screen. If you don’t already have a menu created, name it whatever you want and press the create button.
Finally, we create the menu item. This is where it can be a little tricky. Why, you ask? Well, by default WordPress shows three options. You can actually have more. You just have to look in the right place.
When you click on the Screen Options tab you get a nice little selection of things that you can now edit. As you can see from the following image you now can choose tags, categories and even posts as menu items.
From there you will choose what you want. In our case we will check off all the options because we like to live dangerously and love options.
Now we see that have a few more things in our roster of options.
From there we can now choose posts as menu items. Awesome, right?