Add, remove, or edit menu items in your online store

You can add menu items to your online store menus to build your store's navigation. Menu items are links to products, collections, webpages, blog posts, policies, or other websites. You can also remove or edit menu items.

In most cases, you need to create an item before you can link to it. For example, you need to create a collection before you can add it to a menu.

You can view and change your online store navigation from the Navigation page in your Shopify admin.

Add a menu item

You can add menu items to link to:

  • webpages
  • collections
  • products
  • blogs or blog posts
  • store policies
  • external websites
  • email links

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Navigation.
  2. On the Navigation page, click the title of the menu that you want to edit.
  3. Click Add menu item.
  4. Enter a name for the menu item. This name displays in the menu, and can include special characters or emoji.
  5. Click the Link field, and then enter a website address for an external website or select a link type:
    • Home - your online store's home page
    • Collections - a specific collection or all collections
    • Products - a specific product or all products
    • Pages - a webpage on your online store
    • Blogs - a blog on your online store
    • Blog posts - a blog post on your online store
    • Policies - one of your store policies To create an email link, use the format mailto:youremail@example.com.
  6. If you selected a collection or all collections, then you can filter the collection with tags to display only the products that match all of the tags that you enter.
  7. If you selected a link type, then select a specific destination. When you select Home, the destination is automatically set to your online store's home page.
  8. Click Add to save your menu item.
  9. Click Save menu.

If you delete a resource that you use in your store's navigation, then any associated menu items are also deleted. For example, if you delete a collection that you use in the On sale menu item, then both the collection and the menu item are deleted.

Edit a menu item

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Navigation.
  2. Click the name of the menu that includes the item.
  3. In the Menu items section, click Edit beside the name of the item.
  4. Make any changes:
    • To change the name of the menu item, enter text in the Name field.
    • To change the destination of the menu item, click the x in the Link field, and then enter or select a new destination.
  5. Click Apply changes.
  6. Click Save menu.

Change the display order of menu items

You can view the display order of menu items on the Navigation page. The menu items display on your online store in the order that they are listed.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Navigation.
  2. Click the title of the menu that you want to reorder.
  3. Click and hold the handle icon (⠿) beside the menu item, and then drag the menu item to another position:
    Menu items section with handle icon highlighted
  4. Click Save menu.

Remove a menu item

You can remove a menu item to delete it from your online store navigation. When you remove a menu item that has items nested below it in a drop-down menu, the nested menu items are also removed and the drop-down menu is removed from your online store navigation.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Navigation.
  2. Click Delete beside the menu item that you want to remove.
  3. Click Remove to confirm.
  4. Click Save menu.

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