Creating a Submenu

A Submenu allows you to create a drop-down within your site's navigation menu

Updated over a week ago

Video overview

This can be used to help organize the display of your pages within the navigation menu. The appearance and location depend on your site's theme.


Create Submenu

  1. Navigate from the left sidebar to Portfolio and click 'Pages'

  2. Click 'Create'

  3. Click 'Submenu'

A Submenu (dropdown) can only go one level down, it is not possible to nest submenus.

  1. Give the Submenu a title and click 'Save'


Add Pages to Submenu folder

  1. An empty Submenu will be created for you to drag your items into

  2. These can be items that are already 'IN MENU' or 'NOT IN MENU'

Submenu with Pages added inside


Editing Submenu Options

  1. Editing options include 'Remove from Menu', 'Rename' and 'Delete Permanently'

Deleting a Submenu will NOT DELETE the items inside the folder, they will just be placed loose into the 'IN MENU' area.


Submenu Design options

Some themes allow different design options. The screenshots below are from our Flare (Sierra) theme.

  1. Click 'Design'

  2. Click 'Theme'

  3. Under Theme Options > Site Menu click 'View All' to expand all options

  1. All Site Menu options visible below

  2. Enable Submenu Background

  3. Submenu Background Color

  4. Submenu Link Font Style

These options will vary between themes but you can experiment in the Design tab and view any changes made on your live site.


Live Site

  1. Click Submenu Title in the live site menu to activate the dropdown

  2. Click Page Link to visit that page


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