Your navigation menu is a helpful tool for buyer when browsing your site. It's the gateway to a lot of the content you provide and it's a great way to promote particular areas/products and guide buyers in the right direction.
Creating a Navigation Menu
In the image below we have an example of a navigation menu (category menu entries) with multiple buckets (Men, Women, Kids, Beauty, Meals, Shopping Centres). Each one of this buckets is configured independently using Markdown.
Bucket can include images and links to different types of pages such as promo pages, blog articles, advert page, directory and external links.
Do not confuse your navigation menu and buckets with your taxonomy. Your taxonomy only includes "purchasable" categories and it's an internal structure, while a category bucket is a mix of different links and images that guides the customer through your site shop and content.
Creating a Menu Entry
To create your first menu entry, navigate to the left panel in your back end and click on Categorisation > Category Menu Entries. Click "Create a new
Here you can create as many entries as you want, but we recommend to keep it under 8 entries. They will be displayed as an horizontal menu in all your pages (/s, /d/, /advert, etc).
Start with your first bucket
Navigate to Categorisation > Category Menu entries. Hit the "New bucket" button, you will be taken to a page where you can name the new bucket and add content:
The name of the bucket will be what appears in the main menu.
The content will appear when someone clicks on the menu. The content is written using Markdown.
It's recommended that your menu spans across three columns. You can start a new column by using three hyphens (---) on their own line. To create a button, use heading level 6 (######) and create a link. For example:
--- ###### [Click Me!](/blog)
Will start a new column and render a button with the text "Click Me!"
Note: When using a category slug ensure it is correct to avoid any broken links. You can find the category slug under Categorisation> Categories> Slug
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