Menu Management

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Menus provide a method for your website visitors to navigate and locate information.
Your website may provide many menus (a collection of menu items), including but not limited to: header, footer, left sidebar, right side bar menus etc.
Drupal provides features for managing both the menus and the menu items available for each menu.
To be able to add/remove menu items you must be assigned the administer menu permission.

Your Website Theme & Menus

Your website theme determines: what menus are available, where they are located and the display format. In most cases, this means that you cannot arbitrarily add new menus to your website.
Since menus are linked to the website theme, it is the role of a Drupal developer to manage which menus are available.

To better understand how your website uses menus, it is recommended that you:

  • Speak to your Drupal developer to find out which menus are exposed by the website theme
  • If additional menus can be created
  • And if the title of each menus can be changed. Since the menu title is used by Drupal to identify each menu within a website theme

Viewing The Menu Settings

To access the menu settings navigate to:
  • Administer > Site building > Menus
  • Or go to http://<website>/admin/build/menu

Drupal will now display groups of the available menu and all the menu items for each group.
Use Menu settings for listing, adding, deleting and re-ordering your menu items.

You can view an example Flash tutorial here.