Working with your main menu can feel high-stakes — and for good reason. Unlike page content, there’s no way to revert changes made to your main menu. The following sections are meant to assist with simple menu edits. For more significant changes, contact the Arts & Science Web Liaison team to chat about your options.
Adding Pages to your Main Menu
Whether you’re adding a new page to your main menu or moving where the page resides in your current menu structure, menu updates should be made from the editing view of each page.
If you are adding a new page to your website, first follow the steps outlined in Create a New Page. Once you’ve added and formatted the copy and media in a way that you’re happy with, you can add the new page to your menu by setting its page hierarchy.
- To do this, scroll down to Menu settings at the bottom of the page.
- Check the box next to Set the placement of this page within the main menu.
- Now you can set a Menu link title (i.e., how the page will be labelled in the site’s menu). Drupal will automatically populate this field with the page title, but you can change this (typically done to make the page title more concise in the main menu).
- Choose which existing menu item you’d like to Place page beneath (i.e., the page under which this new page will be nested).
- If you’re looking to add this page as a new, top-level section in your main menu (equal to About Us, Undergraduate, etc.), select <Main menu>, otherwise choose a parent page from the drop-down.
- Once you’ve made your selection, click Publish or Save as Draft.
Note: Only pages that have been published will appear in your menu structure. - Once published, your new page will have a proper URL and breadcrumb structure, and be visible in your sidebar menu.
- If the page still has a node URL (i.e., department.utoronto.ca/node/90) after publishing, simply click back into Edit and save the page again. Sometimes Drupal needs a nudge to update the URL if the page has been saved a few times in draft before publishing.