Graphic Buttons – old school

Can you give an example?

In the menu admin screen, if you click on the “Screen Options” tab on the upper right you can check off “CSS Classes” to target specific menu items.

From there you can change backgrounds, add icons, or even images separate from the menu item itself using the :before/:after psuedo-elements.

Here’s an indepth tutorial on using the psuedo-elements to add stuff to menu items without actually adding stuff: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/07/13/learning-to-use-the-before-and-after-pseudo-elements-in-css/

Here’s a fairly advanced demo about buttons, but can easily be applied to WordPress menu items: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/01/11/css-buttons-with-pseudo-elements/

an example is a gear. I want to do a steampunk (as example, not really) design, so I want my buttons to look like gears that get larger when you mouse over them.