Menus

Each site has its own menus. They aren’t shared between sites, although one site’s menu can fill several of its locations. Open the site, then Nav Menus. The list shows each menu and where it is assigned.

Two steps: build a menu, then assign it to a location, a slot the theme provides.

Locations

Both themes offer the same locations:

Location	Where it shows	Kind
main-menu	Primary navigation, top of the page	Mega menu: dropdowns, and a drawer on phones
footer_menu1 to footer_menu4	The four footer columns	Basic list
sidebar_menu1 to sidebar_menu3	The sidebar of pages using the Sidebar layout, above any widgets	Basic list

In the footer and sidebar columns, the menu’s name is the heading above its links, so name them for visitors (“Our Services”). A location with no menu assigned shows no menu.

Building a menu

New nav menu, give it a Name, then Add Menu Item. Use the item’s own add button to put items under it, and drag to reorder. Each item has:

Field	What it does
Menu Item Type	What it links to. See below.
Label	The text shown. Filled in when you pick an entry, and you can change it.
CSS Classes	Extra classes for the item, for special styling.
Strategy	How a top-level item opens in the main menu. Ignored elsewhere.

Save the menu when you are done.

Menu Item Type	Links to
Link	Anything you type in Link: a path on the site or a full address.
Page, Post, Product	One entry.
Post Category, Post Tag, Product Category	One term’s page.
Post Category Hierarchy, Product Category Hierarchy	The category and everything below it, as the site has them, in the order of the category tree. New categories appear in the menu on their own.

The pickers only offer what the site carries. Links to entries follow them: if the entry’s URL changes the link does too, and if the entry leaves the site, the item and those under it drop out of the menu rather than leaving a dead link.

Strategies

For top-level items in main-menu. Use menu default leaves it to the menu.

Strategy	What it does
Drill-down	A single column you step down through.
Drop-down Panel	A multi-column panel that opens on hover.
Drop-down Fly-out Panel	A panel whose second-level items reveal a wider column.

Assigning a menu

On the menu’s edit page, under Assignments, use Assign to a location, then choose the Theme and the Location. A location holds one menu, so you get an error if another menu already has it.

Assignments are per theme, which is why Theme is asked for. After switching a site’s theme, the new theme’s locations are empty until you assign them. If a site’s locations look wrong, save the theme change first, as the helper text on the site says.

Menu edits show on the site at once.

To show a menu elsewhere, such as in a sidebar on some pages only, use a Nav Menu widget. Editing menus needs content management rights; among the standard roles that means managers and super admins.