Adding a Category to Your Site Menu

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You can display any of your active categories in the site menu. Chose whether you want to add them as a main menu items:
...or as subitems:
Tips:
  • Each active category has it's own URL that you use to link in your menu.
  • Your category list doesn't appear in the mobile view of your site. Add categories to your site menu to give customers easy access.
  • If you use advanced menus, you can add sub-sub-menu items.
In this article, learn how to:

Adding a category to a regular site menu

Category pages are added to your site menu by linking the category page URL.

To add categories to a regular site menu:

  1. Click Pages and Menuon the left side of the Editor.
  2. Click Site Menu.
  3. Click the Link icon  at the bottom.
  1. Select Category Page from the Which Page? drop-down.
  1. Select the category you want to display from the Which item? drop-down.
  2. Click Done.
  3. (Optional) Make the category you added into a subcategory:
    1. Click Pages and Menuon the left side of the Editor.
    2. Click Site Menu.
    3. Drag the relevant menu items under and to the right of the main menu category.

Adding a category to an advanced site menu

If you've built your site's menu using advanced menus, you can add the menu items you need and then use the advanced functionality to build submenus and sub-sub-menus. 

To add categories to an advanced site menu:

  1. Click the advanced menu in your Editor.
  2. Click Manage Menu.
  3. Click + Add Menu Item at the bottom.
  4. Click Dynamic Pages.
  5. Select Category Page from the Which Page? drop-down.
  1. Select the category you want to display from the Which item? drop-down.
  2. Enter a page name.
    Note: This name appears in the menu.
  3. Click Done.
  4. (Optional) Create submenus.
  5. (Optional) Create sub-sub-menus.

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