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The navigational aspect of a site, especially one that is database driven, should have menus that are dynamically generated as well- just like the rest of the sites content, but is seldom the case. The reason is not the lack of technique, but rather the importance of effective navigation and its attribution to the success of the site as a whole.

A site with poor navigation is just as bad as or worse than a site with poor content. Magazine style themes have overcome this barrier using JavaScript dropdown menus. But there is a simpler yet seldom used method that can be used and involves only the use of conditional WordPress tags.

Conditional Navigation

We will use the same demo theme we created during the previous tutorial. As you can see it has conditional page tags built in, just like many of our other new themes.