Change name of the top menu (away from “menu”)

Do you know how to properly create a child theme and uploading it to your host?

I’m asking because we want to create a child-theme then edit a file call navigation-top.php inside the child theme, then upload the child theme to your server, then activate it.

We can either do it via plugins right on your website or we can do it via manual coding right on your computer (which will require you to upload the files to your server once we finish). Let me know and I’ll provide further instruction, thanks!

Thank you so much!

Well, I downloaded the plugin “Advanced twenty Seventeen” to see whether this would let me edit the menu (which it did not?), and I think that the plugin created a child theme for me? That said I am not super confident about this stuff (as you might have guessed).

Any help is much appreciated!

I downloaded the plugin “Advanced twenty Seventeen” to see whether this would let me edit the menu (which it did not?), and I think that the plugin created a child theme for me?

Okay, so we’re going the plugin route, and you already have a working child theme created by Advanced Twenty Seventeen plugin.

This looks more complicated than it is; it’s actually pretty simple.

Step 1. Install WP Editor

• Go to Plugin –> Add New –> search for WP Editor –> install and activate it.
• Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/oPHja9Q.png

Step 2. Grab the navigation-top.php file from the original Twenty Seventeen theme.

• Go to Appearance –> Theme Editor –> at where it says Select theme to edit, choose Twenty Seventeen and hit Select button.
• Still on that page, look under Theme Files, click on template-parts –> navigation –> navigation-top.php.
• Still on that page, make sure navigation-top.php file is selected (click on it) –> hit the Download File button.
• Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/7Ehbk5D.png

Step 3. Upload navigation-top.php to your child theme’s template-parts/navigation/ directory.

• Go to Appearance –> Theme Editor –> at where it says Select theme to edit, choose Advanced Twenty Seventeen Child and hit Select button.
• Still on that same page, under Upload Files, in the box right below it, type in template-parts/navigations/ –> then hit Choose File button –> choose the navigation-top.php file that you’ve previously downloaded –> hit Upload File button.
• Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/YD5fJpt.png

Step 4. Edit Menu text in navigation-top.php file to whatever text you want.

• Go to Appearance –> Theme Editor –> at where it says Select theme to edit, choose Advanced Twenty Seventeen Child and hit Select button.
• Still on that page, under Theme Files, click on template-parts –> navigation –> navigation-top.php
• Still on that page, with navigation-top.php selected, look for _e( 'Menu', 'twentyseventeen' ); ?></button> line of code –> edit that Menu text to whatever you want — then hit Update File button to save.
• And we’re done!
• Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/CM7EQUq.png

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Thank you so much for the great tutorial! You were right, it looked more confusing than it was. Unfortunately, it was not successful. I am quite sure that I followed all of the steps.
It still looks like this: https://imgur.com/axajoy0

So, this is where I changed the name to “Meny” https://imgur.com/rqQO3yP