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Menus

Menus are the link lists in your header, footer, and sidebars. Change one and every page updates.

How menus work

  • Items — each menu is a list of items, and each item has a label and a link.
  • Links — four link types: a raw URL, a route, an entry (a page or post, by ID), or a category or tag.
  • Nesting — give an item children and it becomes a dropdown.
  • Placement — the basic theme puts Header Nav in the header and Footer Nav plus Footer Resources in the footer. Put any menu into a page or post as a Menu widget, or into a theme file with a menu embed, and style it however you like.

Building a menu

  • Go to Content → Menus and click Add New.
  • Name the menu and set its slug.
  • Click + Add item, then pick a link type and set its target.
  • Nest an item under another with + child.
  • Reorder items with ↑ ↓.
  • Click Save.
  • Open Advanced on an item for a CSS class, icon, description, link rel, or open-in-new-tab.
The Menus list in admin, under Content, showing Header Nav, Footer Nav, two docs sidebar menus, Testing Page Menu, and Footer Resources, all published
Your menus, under Content → Menus.
Editing the Header Nav menu: a Docs item with nested Getting Started, Install, Quickstart, Concepts, and How It Works items indented beneath it
Editing the header menu. Indented items become dropdowns.

Try it

This is a live menu, dropped into this page as a widget.

On the site

The Docs item in the site header nav, open as a dropdown, showing Getting Started, Concepts, and their nested sub-items
The same menu on the site.

A page using the docs sidebar template shows the menu whose slug matches the page — for example, docs-how-tovu-works-sidebar.

Coming Soon: menus written in raw HTML — your own markup and styling, links wherever you want.