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Using Navigation

This guide is for editors who build site menus and owners deciding how menus are structured. Every step uses the labels you see on screen.

  1. Go to Navigation.
  2. Create a new menu and give it a name.
  3. Choose a Key. Use Main, Footer, or Sub-footer when your theme renders that built-in menu location. A key can be used once for the same site and language.
  4. Choose the site and, when needed, the language for this menu.
  5. Add links to your pages, or add an External link to another site.
  6. Save the menu.

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An editor reviews site navigation records and their scope and status. An editor reviews site navigation records and their scope and status.
  1. Open the menu in the editor.
  2. Drag a link up or down to change its order.
  3. Drag a link underneath another to nest it. Nested links become a dropdown.
  4. Save the menu.
  1. Nest links under a parent item.
  2. On the parent item, choose how its children open: Standard dropdown or Mega menu.
  3. Save the menu.

How to make a menu appear in a theme location

Section titled “How to make a menu appear in a theme location”
  1. Check which menu key the theme renders. The built-in keys are Main, Footer, and Sub-footer.
  2. Open or create the menu for that site and language.
  3. Set its Key to the matching value and save.
  4. Preview the public page. The theme decides where that key appears; there is no separate Header or Footer assignment control.
  1. Open the site you are working on.
  2. Use the navigations area on the site to add or edit the menus that belong to it.
  3. Save. This keeps each site’s menus together in one place.
An editor manages navigations directly from the site edit screen. An editor manages navigations directly from the site edit screen.
  1. Open the page you want to control.
  2. Go to its navigation tab.
  3. Set how that page behaves in menus, then save.
An editor controls page-level navigation options from the page form. An editor controls page-level navigation options from the page form.
  • A header menu with your main pages. Get the primary navigation right before adding footer menus or dropdowns.
NeedEnable
Group related pages under one headingNested links (a Standard dropdown)
A large menu with sections and columnsA Mega menu
Links at the bottom of every pageA Footer navigation menu
  • Avoid mega menus until you have enough pages to fill them. A simple dropdown is clearer for small sites.
RoleFirst useful screen
EditorThe menu editor: add, nest, and reorder links
Site ownerNavigations: review each menu’s site, language, and rendered key
What you seeWhat it meansWhat to do
A new menu isn’t showing on the siteIts key is not one the theme renders, or the menu is not eligible for the current site/languageMatch the menu Key to the theme’s rendered key, check the site and language, then preview the public page
A link goes to the wrong placeThe page reference or external URL is wrongOpen the link and fix its target
A dropdown isn’t openingIts child links aren’t nested, or the layout isn’t setNest the links under the parent and set Standard dropdown or Mega menu
A menu item points to a deleted pageThe page it linked to no longer existsRemove or repoint the link, then save