Title: Understanding Side Menu
Last modified: September 8, 2016

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# Understanding Side Menu

 *  Resolved [cbisu2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbisu2/)
 * (@cbisu2)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-side-menu/)
 * This is a total newbie question, but here goes.
 * On the side bar menu, there are the standard things that come with a new website
   sidebar menu…Dashboard, posts, pages, etc. But on certain sites there are other
   tabs. For example, our marketing company has a restaurant client who has a tab
   for “Locations.”
 * My questions is, where is this coming from? Is this part of their custom theme?
   Or is this coming from a plug-in? I know you can probably only speculate, but
   I will say that I looked and there is no plug-in that is obviously doing this.
 * The reason I am asking is because the client wants something changed, but the
   current functioning of this tab doesn’t allow the changes they want. Thus, if
   I want to change its functionality, I need to know where it is coming from and
   I am not great with WordPress.
 * Any explanation for a newbie would be helpful. Thanks!

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-side-menu/#post-8160397)
 * “Locations” is probaly coming from the theme, like a Custom Post Type. What theme?
   Where did you download it from?
 *  Thread Starter [cbisu2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbisu2/)
 * (@cbisu2)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-side-menu/#post-8160401)
 * Gotcha, the theme is custom built from some other design company. It looks like
   it was based on Twenty Twelve.
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-side-menu/#post-8160431)
 * It’s going to be difficult if not impossible to help; we can’t see the theme 
   code. I’d download a copy of twentytwelve and do a diff on the two folders. I’ve
   seen many dev companies to that; take a copy of a “twenty” theme and modify it.
   It can be a mess. See [https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development](https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development)
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/).
 *  Thread Starter [cbisu2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbisu2/)
 * (@cbisu2)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-side-menu/#post-8160472)
 * Sweet. I appreciate the help!

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-side-menu/#post-8160472)
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