---
title: "Menus"
description: "Build the header and footer navigation of your store, including category menus that fill themselves and mega-menus."
url: "https://docs.poltura.com/en/online-store/menus/"
lang: en
alternates:
  en: "https://docs.poltura.com/en/online-store/menus/"
  hu: "https://docs.poltura.com/hu/online-store/menus/"
---

# Menus

Build the header and footer navigation of your store, including category menus that fill themselves and mega-menus.

- Where: Online store → Themes → (theme) → Menus

Menus are the links in your store's header and footer. Each theme has three: **Primary navigation** in the header, and **Footer quick links** and **Footer legal links** in the footer. You decide what is in them, in what order and what each item is called in each language.

![The Menus tab of a theme with the three menus as tabs, the Items list of Primary navigation and the Add item button](https://docs.poltura.com/screenshots/en/online-store/menus.webp)

_Each menu has its own tab. Click an item to edit it on the right._

## Open the menu editor

1. Open **Online store** and choose **Themes**.
2. Click the theme's name, then open the **Menus** tab.
3. Pick the menu you want to edit with the menu switcher at the top.
4. The **Items** list on the left shows the menu. Click an item to edit it under **Selected item** on the right.

The same menus can be edited in the customizer, under **Theme settings** → **Menus**, where you see the result on the preview.

## Add an item

1. Choose **Add item**.
2. Type the **Label** shoppers will see.
3. Choose the **Type**: **Link**, **Category menu**, **Pages menu** or **Mega-menu**.
4. For a link, pick the **Destination**: a page of your store, or **Custom link** to type a path or a web address.
5. Choose **Save**. The header shows **Unsaved changes** until you do.

Saving writes the menus into the theme's draft. Publish the theme to show them to customers.

## Choose the right type

- **Link** goes to one place: a store page or any address you type.
- **Category menu** fills itself from your category tree. It stays up to date as your catalog changes. Pick one **Category** or **All categories**, set the **Depth** (**1 level** or **2 levels**), and decide whether to show a "View all" link. **Show items directly in the bar** puts the subcategories straight into the header instead of under one item.
- **Pages menu** fills itself from the pages you wrote under [Content](https://docs.poltura.com/en/online-store/content/).
- **Mega-menu** opens a wide panel with links, images and products under the header item. See below.

Automatic types fill their own sub-items, so you cannot add sub-items to them by hand.

## Reorder and nest items

- Drag an item by its handle to move it, or use **Move up** and **Move down**.
- **Make a sub-item** nests an item under the one above it. **Move out of the parent** brings it back to the top level.
- **Remove item** deletes it. If it has sub-items, they are removed with it.

Menus go one level deep: an item with sub-items cannot itself become a sub-item.

## Translate the labels

Structure, destinations and types are shared by every language. Only the labels are per language.

1. Choose the language at the top of the menu editor.
2. Click an item and type its label in that language.
3. Leave the field empty to use the base label.
4. Choose **Save**.

## Build a mega-menu

A mega-menu is designed in the customizer, because it is built from sections like a page.

1. Open the theme in the customizer and select **Header** in the sidebar.
2. Select a menu item of the header and set its **Type** to **Mega-menu**.
3. Choose **Create mega-menu** and give it a name.
4. Pick a **Starting layout**: **Link columns**, **Links + promotional card**, **Links + products** or **Start blank**.
5. Add or change its sections: **Link list**, **Products**, **Image card**, **Featured product** and **Divider**.
6. Set the **Alignment** (**Left**, **Centered** or **Spread out**) and the **Size** (**Compact**, **Comfortable** or **Spacious**).
7. Choose **Back to menu** when you are done, then publish.

One mega-menu can be reused under several items with **Use an existing mega-menu**.

## Good to know

- A menu can hold up to 50 items, and one item up to 12 sub-links.
- Footer menus show one flat list of links. The store ignores category, pages and mega-menu types in a footer menu. Use **Turn into a plain link** on such an item.
- A mega-menu can have up to 6 sections.
- Each item can open on hover or on click on desktop, with **Open on desktop**. On mobile, menus always open with a tap.
- The Launch theme always opens the main menu from one MENU button.

## If something goes wrong

- **"Could not save the menus".** Choose **Save** again.
- **"This dropdown no longer exists."** The mega-menu the item pointed at was deleted. Choose another one or create a new one in the customizer.
- **A category is missing from a category menu.** The menu follows your category tree. Check that the category is set up under [Categories](https://docs.poltura.com/en/products/categories/).
- **The new menu is not on the store.** Menus are saved to the draft. Publish the theme.

## Related

- [Customizer](https://docs.poltura.com/en/online-store/customizer/)
- [Theme settings](https://docs.poltura.com/en/online-store/theme-settings/)
- [Pages, blog and content](https://docs.poltura.com/en/online-store/content/)
- [Categories](https://docs.poltura.com/en/products/categories/)
- [Themes](https://docs.poltura.com/en/online-store/themes/)