Menus

Open Content › Menus. Menus are the navigation in your store’s header, footer and anywhere else a theme shows a menu.

A new store starts with a Main menu holding Home and Shop all (all your products, in each shopper’s language), and an empty Footer menu. Below the footer, the default theme always links to Contact us (the contact form at /contact) and Track your order, where a shopper finds an order without an account, and to your policies once you add them.

Create a menu

Add menu asks for a Menu title and a Handle; Create menu saves it. Leave the handle empty to make it from the title. Themes find their default menus by handle, so keep the handle of a menu the theme uses.

Add links

Add link adds a link. Each link has a Link label and a destination. A new link takes its label from what it points to (the collection’s name, say) until you write one of your own:

• Home page, All products, Search or the Contact page (your store’s contact form, which every store has);
• a Collection, Product, Page, Blog or Blog post you choose from your store: type part of its name in the search beside the list to find it (every product, however many);
• a Policy: refund, privacy, terms of service, shipping, contact information or legal notice;
• a Web address of your own.

Arrange links

• Drag a link by its handle to move it.
• Indent puts a link under the one above it, making it a dropdown item. Outdent moves it back out. + Sub-link adds a link under this one. When Indent is off, its hint says why for that link: it is the menu’s first link, the first link under the one it sits under (named), or the menu is already three levels deep there.
• Menus go up to 3 levels deep.
• Remove takes a link out.

A link whose product, page or collection no longer exists shows Unavailable item. Fix the highlighted links before you save.

Labels in other languages

When your store has more than one language, Language version at the top switches between them. In another language you see each link’s main label next to a field for its label in that language, such as “Women” and “Femei”. Leave a field empty to show the main label. A language with a dot still has links without a label of their own. The links themselves, their order and levels are the same in every language: switch back to the main language to change them.

Apply in the bar at the top (it says Unsaved changes while something is not saved) keeps your changes. Delete menu removes the whole menu, after you confirm. If the menu is changed elsewhere while you are typing (by the assistant or a colleague), your typing stays and a note says so: Apply saves your changes over the newer menu, and Load the latest menu shows the newer one and discards yours.

Copy a menu

On a menu’s page, Duplicate makes a copy with all its links, ready to change.