A menu is a named list of links. Your theme shows a menu wherever one of its sections asks for it — the header usually shows your Main menu, and footer columns show your Footer menu or any other menu you create. Change a menu once and every place that uses it updates. Open it from Online Store → Navigation, or go straight to platformdtc.com/online-store/navigation.
Menus are shown by themes built with the new theme editor whose header, footer or other sections include a menu. Pick which menu a section shows in the theme editor.

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Default menus

Every store has two menus from the start: You can rename these menus and add, change or remove any of their links, including emptying them. You can’t delete them or change their handles, because themes look them up by handle — a theme section set to main-menu must always find a menu. An empty menu shows nothing on your store.

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Create a menu

1

Add a menu

On the Navigation page, add a menu and give it a title, for example Help.
2

Add links

Add a link, type its name, and choose where it goes. See Link destinations.
3

Arrange them

Drag links to reorder them. Drag a link under another link to nest it.
4

Save

Save the menu. Your live store picks up the change within a short while — you don’t need to publish your theme again.

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The menu handle

The handle is the name a theme uses to find the menu. It’s made from the title when you create the menu — Help becomes help — and it doesn’t change when you rename the menu later, so theme sections that use it keep working. You can edit it yourself; it must be unique among your menus. Pick a collection, product, page, blog or blog post from the search list rather than typing its address. The link remembers what you picked, not the address, so if you later change a collection’s or page’s handle, the menu link follows it. A web address must be one of:
  • a full address starting with https:// or http://
  • a path on your store starting with /, such as /pages/contact
  • an email link starting with mailto:
  • a phone link starting with tel:
A link must go somewhere. An empty address or # can’t be saved.

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Nesting and limits

  • Menus nest three levels deep: a top-level link, links under it, and links under those. How a nested menu is displayed — a dropdown, a mega menu, a footer column — is up to your theme.
  • A menu can hold up to 250 links in total, counting nested links.

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When a linked item is deleted or hidden

If a link points to something that is no longer on your store — a deleted or unpublished product, a deleted collection, or a page or blog post that was deleted or hidden — the link disappears from your store, together with any links nested under it. Shoppers never see a link that goes nowhere. The link stays in your menu, marked with a warning in the menu editor. Point it somewhere else, remove it, or make the page or post visible again — a link to a hidden page comes back on its own when you publish the page.