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Finding existing functionality

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Finding existing functionality

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- [Instructor] We've looked at how to add css and php code to our functions file as well as customizing templates. These are tools that you need to make your own child theme. Now I want to show you how to add some pretty common functionality to your theme. And one of the most common things you can do is add, edit, or remove a menu. I want to add a menu to our child theme. But before we do that, I should show you where to find existing menus in the theme. We can see one menu on the front end, and we can go into our admin and in appearance, and menus, to customize it. Or we can go into the customizer and go into menus. So we can see our main menu right here, let's click into that, and here we can see all of the items on that main menu. So if we wanted to add something extra, let's add a specific blog post. Let's say pumpkin pie, we can do that. We can of course reorder these and we can also make sub-items. We can also assign this menu to different locations. So if we still had the…

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