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The navigation represents the menu of your website: main navigation, submenus, footer, etc. You manage the menu items under Structure → Navigation and link them to pages, external URLs, or categories.

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Creating a new menu item

Open Structure → Navigation in the sidebar and click + New.
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General

  • Code: Unique technical identifier (lowercase, no spaces or umlauts)
  • Name: Display name of the menu item on the website
  • Use menu item as: Type of the menu item (see Menu item types)
  • Select template: Optional: assign a page template
  • Landing page (full width): Hides the page navigation and displays the page across the full width
Depending on the selected type, a corresponding follow-up field appears (e.g. Select page for “Assign page”).
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Controlling publication

  • Active: Makes the menu item visible on the website
  • Valid from / Valid until: Time-controlled visibility (e.g. for seasonal menu items)
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Meta data (optional)

If you enable Meta Nofollow, search engines will not include the link in their ranking calculation.
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Save

Click Save or Save and close.
Using Use menu item as, you define where the menu item points to. Depending on the selection, the form displays corresponding follow-up fields.
Links directly to one of your existing pages. Select the target page from the Select page dropdown.
Redirects to another page of your website, which you select in the dropdown.
Redirects to an external URL. Enter the full target URL.
A pure structural item without a target, useful as a parent item for a submenu.
Like “Internal redirect”, but the URL is entered directly instead of being selected from a page list.
Redirects to an item category of your web shop.

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Arranging menu items hierarchically

Menu items can be nested, e.g. a main item Service with submenu items FAQ and Contact. Using the arrow next to a menu item, you expand or collapse its subitems. There are two ways to arrange menu items:
  • Drag & drop: Click and hold a menu item and drag it to the desired position
  • Toolbar: Select a menu item and use the arrows in the toolbar:
ActionEffect
Up / DownChange the order within the same level
RightThe menu item becomes a subitem of the one above it
LeftThe menu item moves back one hierarchy level

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Editing a menu item

Double-click a menu item or select it and click Edit in the toolbar. Using Edit page in the edit dialog, you jump directly to the linked page.

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Deleting a menu item

Select a menu item and click Delete in the toolbar.
When deleting a menu item with subitems, its subitems are also removed. This action cannot be undone.

Creating pages

Create pages that are made available in the navigation.

Shopping worlds

Link pages with item categories.

Redirects

Set up URL redirects to complement the navigation.