The main menu is the navigation across the top of your website. Its links are grouped into sections, such as Government or Services. You can add, reorder, rename, hide and remove links yourself.

Open the Main Menu

In the toolbar, go to Structure, then Menus, and select List links next to Main navigation. Your site may have other menus too, such as a footer menu; they work the same way.

The page lists the menu’s top-level sections. To see the links inside a section, select Edit child items in its row. A section’s page shows the section at the top and its links below it.

Add a Link

1. Select Add link.
2. In Menu link title, type the text to show in the menu. Keep it short.
3. In Link, start typing the title of the page and select it from the list that appears. You can also enter a page’s address, such as /pool-hours, or a full address to another website, starting with https://.
4. Under Parent link, choose the section the link goes in. Another list appears if you want to place it one level deeper, under a link in that section.
5. Select Save.

To add a link straight into a section, open the arrow beside the section’s Edit button and choose Add child: the Parent link is filled in for you.

When you’re adding a new page, it’s easier to add its menu link from the page itself, under Menu settings. See Page Settings.

To show text in the menu that isn’t a link, such as a heading for a group of links, type <nolink> in Link.

Change the Order

Drag a link by its handle (the cross-shaped arrows at the start of its row) up or down. A message says you have unsaved changes; select Save to keep the new order. The same works for the sections on the main page.

If dragging is hard, select Show row weights and give each link a number instead: lower numbers come first. Then select Save.

Rename, Move or Hide a Link

Select Edit in the link’s row. Change the Menu link title or Link, or choose another section under Parent link to move it, then select Save.

To hide a link without deleting it, clear its Enabled box in the list and select Save. It shows “(disabled)” and stays in the list, so you can turn it back on later.

The Edit form also has Display settings and Description. Description is text shown when a visitor hovers over the link. Leave Weight and Show as expanded as they are.

Delete a Link

Open the arrow beside the link’s Edit button and choose Delete, then confirm with Delete. This removes the link from the menu only: the page it pointed to stays on your site.

Deleting a section doesn’t delete the links inside it: they move up to the top level of the menu. Before deleting a section, move its links to the sections where they belong.

Tips

• Keep menu link titles to one to three words.
• Hide a link rather than deleting it if you might need it again.
• Pages that aren’t in the menu are hard to find. The No Menu Content Report lists them.

Taxonomy holds the lists of categories your content uses. Each list is called a vocabulary, and each choice in it is a term. For example, the Calendar Categories vocabulary might have the terms Community Events, Council Meetings and Holidays. When you add a calendar event, you pick one of them as its category.

Your Vocabularies

In the toolbar, go to Structure, then Taxonomy. Most sites have these vocabularies; yours may have others, or not all of them:

• Calendar Categories: the Calendar Category of calendar events.
• Councils and Committees: the Council / Committee that agendas and minutes belong to.
• News Category: the Category of news posts.
• FAQ Categories: the Category of frequently asked questions.
• Department: departments that content can belong to.

If a vocabulary is missing from your list, or you can’t add terms to it, your role doesn’t include it. Contact VC3 support if you need it.

See the Terms

Select List terms next to a vocabulary. Each row is one term.

Add a Term

1. On the term list, select Add term.
2. Type the term’s Name.
3. Select Save and go to list. Save keeps the form open to add another term.

The new term is a choice right away on every form that uses the vocabulary. Terms can’t be added from those forms, so add the term here first. On most sites, the Calendar Event form has a create a new term link under Calendar Category that opens this form.

On some sites, News Category terms also have a Description, a URL alias and a Published switch.

Rename a Term

Select Edit in the term’s row, change the Name and select Save. Content that uses the term shows the new name; you don’t need to edit it.

Change the Order

Drag a term by its handle (the cross-shaped arrows at the start of its row) up or down, then select Save. Forms list the terms in this order.

To sort the whole list A to Z, select Reset to alphabetical and confirm. This replaces any order you set.

Group Terms Under Another Term

A term can sit under another term, such as Youth Sports under Parks & Recreation. Drag it below the other term and slightly to the right, then select Save. Or, on its Edit form, open Relations and choose the other term under Parent terms. Most vocabularies don’t need this; keep lists flat unless there’s a clear reason.

The arrow beside a term’s Edit button also has Add child, which adds a new term under it.

Delete a Term

Open the arrow beside the term’s Edit button, choose Delete and confirm. Content that used the term no longer has that category. Any terms grouped under it are deleted too. This can’t be undone.

To merge two similar terms, first edit the content that uses the one you’re removing and choose the other term, then delete it.

Tips

• Keep names short and clear, and check the list before adding, to avoid near-duplicates such as “Council Meeting” and “Council Meetings”.
• Renaming is safer than deleting and adding again: content keeps its category.