Overview
Your BPD website features two types of menus: the navigation menu - for products and categories, and the section menu - for content.
Your site's footer probably has at least one section menu on it, but you may also have others in use elsewhere across your website.
Our newly-updated Section Menu Editor in the CMS makes creating and editing your content menus much simpler.
Create a New Menu
- In the CMS, select Navigation → Section Menu Editor.
- Click Create New Menu.
- Give your menu a description / label.
- Save.
- Add Item to Menu.
- Give the new item a label and select the type of menu item you wish to add - page, product, category or link.
- The dropdown list will change depending on the menu type you choose - you can lookup products/ categories, existing pages, or input a completet URL for a link.
- Valid URLs must start with either http:// or https://
- Javascript code must start with javascript:
- You can select additional options for Pages:
- Include in Site Map
- Open in New Window (this option is also available for Links)
- Hidden
- Next, you can configure who can access this menu. Select Options → Associated Roles.
- By default, each item you add to a section menu will inherit the role permissions of the parent. However, you can configure access to individual menu items if required.
- By default, new section menus are linked to ALL menu codes. You can toggle off the ones you don't want right here.
- Click Confirm, then repeat Step 5 onward to build out your section menu. You can even drag and drop the menu items to re-order them.
- Save your new menu.
Displaying a section menu on the web
Once you've created or edited your section menu, you'll probably want to display it on your site.
To do this, you'll need a Section Menu widget.
- Navigate to Content → Page Templates and select the required template (for example, the Theme Layout for the footer, or another page template to display in content area).
- Find the right location on the page for your menu and click Add Widget.
- Search for and select Section Menu widget and click Add Widget.
- Select the section menu from the dropdown in the widget edit window.
Alternatively, you can display a section menu as part of the Mega Menu.
Custom Pages - adding a page to a menu
- Content → Page Templates → Custom Pages
- Edit the page you require.
- Options → Page Properties
- Add to a Menu
- Choose a type - Section menu or Navigation menu
- (something here about the available nav menu items?)
- Hidden or not
- Click Add Menu
- Save
tip - adding a custom page to a menu may require a cache refresh before you see it on the web. Login/logout.