Usually when you put a page in the nav bar, the title that you originally created for the page is the same as what will appear in the nav bar. Check out the nav bar on this site and click on “archive”. Notice how the page title says “Check out all my older stuff…”. Here’s the simple way to make this happen.

First, go to Dashboard —->Links —-> Link categories…

Create a link category. I named mine “navigation menu”. This is simply going to be a holding area for all the links I want in my nav menu.

Next, create a page and publish it. View the page and copy it’s URL….

Next we’re going to put this new page into the “holding area” called navigation menu…

Go to Dashboard —–>Links —->Add New….

When your here just fill in the other options to whatever gives you the effect your looking for

Next we’re going to add this page to the nav bar…

Go to Dashboard —->Appearance —->Thesis Options…

From the drop down list pick the category that you put the links you want to put in the nav bar, in my case it was navigation menu

Hit the save button and check it out!

In your custom.ss file add the following code. You can put it anywhere you want but I recommend putting it at the top. Remember, once you make the change, save it, and upload the new file to your server. Always describe what you’re doing by putting your descripton between the comment tags /*  */ at the beginning shown below in green. The comments aren’t shown on your rendered page and it just makes things easier for you to remember…

/*space between widget list items*/
.custom li.widget ul li { margin-bottom: 2em ; }

Change the 2 to whatever gives you the desired effect

In your custom.ss file add the following code. You can put it anywhere you want but I recommend putting it at the top. Remember, once you make the change, save it, and upload the new file to your server. Always describe what you’re doing by putting your descripton between the comment tags /*  */ at the beginning shown below in green. The comments aren’t shown on your rendered page and it just makes things easier for you to remember…

/*sidebar title normal case*/
.custom h3 { font-variant: normal ; }

Dashboard —> Appearance —>Widgets…

Go to the “edit” tab on whichever category you want to do this to. On the drop down menu check “post counts”. Hit the save button.

If you want to only move the category items and not any other widget items, like this tutorial, then follow this…

In your custom.ss file add the following code. You can put it anywhere you want but I recommend putting it at the top. Remember, once you make the change, save it, and upload the new file to your server. Always describe what you’re doing by putting your descripton between the comment tags /*  */ at the beginning shown below in green. The comments aren’t shown on your rendered page and it just makes things easier for you to remember…

/*move category items around*/
.custom li.cat-item { text-align: center ; }

Change “center” to “right” or “left” to get the desired effect.

If you want to just show categories with no content go to your wp dashboard —>appearance —>thesis options.  Scroll down until you find the “archives” section below….

Check the “Titles only” button. Hit the save button and check out your site.