Website settings and domains

Create and manage menus

Menus can appear in the website header, footer or wherever you place their shortcode.

Create a menu

  1. Open Settings > Menus.
  2. Enter a menu name.
  3. Choose Header, Footer or no placement for a shortcode-only menu.
  4. Keep Active selected and save the menu.

Use Add menu items to search across content, or browse Pages, Posts, Products and Galleries. Pages, posts and products each include a Categories tab. You can also add a custom label and URL.

Add the items you need, then drag them into order. Indent an item below the preceding item to make it a submenu link; use Outdent to return it to the top level. You can also change its label, URL, target and active status.

Select Save menu items after arranging the menu.

Use a menu in content

A saved menu shows a clickable shortcode. Copy it into a content or footer text block. A menu does not need Header or Footer placement when it is used only by shortcode.

The basic shortcode uses the saved menu ID:

[menu id="2"]

Choose its layout and whether its saved title and nested links should appear:

[menu id="2" layout="vertical" show_title="1" show_subitems="1"]
[menu id="2" layout="horizontal" show_title="0"]
[menu id="2" layout="angled" show_title="0"]

Available layouts are:

  • vertical: an indented column, suited to content, side areas and most footer columns;
  • horizontal: a row that can wrap when space is limited;
  • angled: top-level labels displayed at an angle above a dividing line. It reflows across the available width and works best with short link labels.

The angled layout deliberately hides submenu levels, even when show_subitems="1" is present. Use the vertical layout when visitors must see nested links. A menu inside a one-column custom footer uses the same wide angled presentation automatically.

Other useful options include align="left|center|right", max_depth="2", and style="contrast". Use straight quotation marks and replace 2 with the ID copied from your own menu.

Add an Event to a menu

Published Events appear under the Events tab in Add menu items. Select or drag the Event into the menu and save the menu items. Use a custom link to /events when you want one link to the complete public Events list.