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Change a menu in your header or footer

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Checked against the product’s code on 7 November 2026.

Learn how to change a menu. Open Site > Navigation in the site admin. Choose the menu, edit its links and decide where it appears in the top navigation or footer. Review and publish the whole menu change together. EmDash also provides its own Menus screen. Both work with the site’s menus.

EmDash Menus screen showing the Primary menu entry.
EmDash’s own Menus list. The Site Navigation workflow below builds and publishes a menu. Open full size.

Start or choose a menu

Section titled “Start or choose a menu”

  1. Open Site.

  2. Open Navigation.

  3. Choose an existing menu from the selector, or choose New menu.

  4. For a new menu, fill in What to call it.

  5. For a new menu, check Its stable name. The stable name identifies this menu independently of its display name.

  6. For a new menu, choose Start building.

    Start a new menu dialog with What to call it Docs Walk Menu and its stable name docs_walk_menu.
    Name a new menu; its stable name follows.

Starting a menu does not publish it. You build its links and choose its locations before approving the live change.

Navigation with Docs Walk Menu (new), Not on your site yet, Unpublished changes, and no links yet.
The menu is built here before anything is published.
Section titled “Add and arrange links”

To add content from this site, use Add a page or post to search for it. You can also add a category or tag.

For a custom link, including another website:

  1. Enter its words in the custom link row.
  2. Enter its address.
  3. Choose Add.
Navigation with the new Docs Walk P4 Menu, Not on your site yet: Add a page or post holds the typed title Docs Walk First Page and shows one matching result, Docs Walk First Page, marked DRAFT, at /docs-walk-first-page/.
Search a page by its title and pick the match.
The same unpublished menu now holding one link, Docs Walk First Page, marked PAGE and DRAFT, at /docs-walk-first-page/, with All links selected and no location ticked.
The chosen page joins the draft menu.

Click a link’s label to rename it. Drag a link to change its position or nest it under another. The builder supports three levels. You can also move links with the keyboard: pick one up with Space or Enter, move it with the arrow keys, then drop it with Space or Enter. Escape cancels a drag.

A link to a draft is marked in the builder. Published only changes the list you are looking at; it does not publish those draft destinations. Check every destination before publishing the menu.

Docs Walk Menu (new), Not on your site yet: one link Docs Walk First Page marked PAGE and DRAFT, with All links selected; the preview shows the store's header and hero text.
A link to a draft page is marked Draft.

Choose where it appears

Section titled “Choose where it appears”

Under Where this menu appears, choose Header, Secondary header or Footer from the locations offered by this site. Read the note if a location already shows another menu. Publishing can replace that menu’s placement.

A location already assigned to this menu may stay checked. To replace it, place another menu in that location.

Review the site header preview at desktop and phone widths. Check the link labels, order and nesting.

On library themes, header menu text can adjust to its background in light and dark, including the current page’s link, links under the pointer and keyboard focus in an open submenu. The open editorial menu uses the same contrast check. Colors that already meet the contrast check stay. Migrated pages keep their earlier rendering. Check the public menu in both modes, especially after adding custom CSS.

Header ticked and the desktop preview's header showing Docs walk start with a drop-down and Shipping help.
Choose where it appears and check the preview.
Navigation with Mobile preview selected; the header shows Docs walk start with a dropdown arrow and Shipping help.
The phone preview.

With Mobile selected, the preview shows Docs walk start as a dropdown while Care Guide is nested beneath it in the editor.

Publish and undo

Section titled “Publish and undo”

  1. Choose Publish.

  2. Read Publish this menu to your site? The card names the links and placements that will change.

    Approval required: Publish this menu to your site? Create Docs Walk Menu with 3 links, show it in the header; undo puts your navigation back. With Publish and Keep editing.
    The card says exactly what will change.

  3. Choose Publish to apply the menu, or Keep editing to return to the draft.

The menu change is saved when you approve it. Visitors see the change within the hour, usually much sooner. While the site’s server is down, visitors may see the previous version of a page for up to a day. Its receipt offers Undo to reverse that published menu change.

Navigation marks Docs Walk Menu Live on your site; its receipt names three links in the header, one nested, with Undo and Done.
Published, with Undo.
The public page's header showing Docs walk start and Shipping help.
The new menu in the live header.
Navigation after Undo: the preview header shows Home, Products, Care, Shipping, Shop again.
Undo puts the earlier menu back.

Publishing a menu does not publish the pages or posts it links to. Use the Composer for those publications.