{"id":177,"date":"2016-09-13T14:30:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdocs.bu.edu\/eng\/research-sister\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2022-08-12T16:32:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T20:32:39","slug":"updating-your-site-navigation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wpdocs.bu.edu\/eng\/updating-your-site-navigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responsive\u00a0uses BU Navigation to manage where pages live on the site and whether they display in the navigation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/comm\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/page-navigation\/\">Learn how to use the BU Navigation Plug-in on TechWeb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you update your navigation, be thoughtful about how many and what sort of top navigation items you have. Each navigation item is a choice for users. Keep these choices logical, with clear and concise labels that tell users what to expect when they click to that page.<\/p>\n<p>Avoid\u00a0entering all uppercase or all lowercase labels in the navigation label (unless it is an editorial requirement, such as an acronym). Responsive and its child themes automatically handle\u00a0upper- and lowercase text for styling purposes, so when you manually enter\u00a0upper- or lowercase labels, it means that the theme can&#8217;t do its job. If you redesign your site or switch to a different theme, and you&#8217;ve manually entered upper- or lowercase labels, you will need to update each individual instance for the\u00a0new theme to work correctly.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to change this\u00a0style in Responsive, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/use-custom-styles\/\">Custom CSS<\/a>, which allows you to use CSS to target navigation and make this change without affecting content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responsive\u00a0uses BU Navigation to manage where pages live on the site and whether they display in the navigation. Learn how to use the BU Navigation Plug-in on TechWeb As you update your navigation, be thoughtful about how many and what sort of top navigation items you have. Each navigation item is a choice for users. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7267,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdocs.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdocs.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdocs.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdocs.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdocs.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/wpdocs.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/wpdocs.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdocs.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}