Navigation

A navigation is a menu: the links across the top of Tidewater’s site, the footer, a sidebar. Which menus exist is part of the site’s setup; what is in them is yours.

After reading this guide, you will know:

• How to add, arrange and nest links.
• When to link to a page and when to type a URL.
• When a menu change reaches the site.
• Why some menus cannot be edited here.

1. Editing a menu

Open Navigation in the sidebar and choose a menu. Tidewater’s main menu has four links:

• Add link adds one at the bottom; Add sub-link adds one beneath another.
• Drag a link by its handle to move it. Drag it under another to nest it — as deep as the menu allows.
• The pencil edits a link; the bin removes it.
• Save puts the menu on the site. There is no separate publish step for menus.

2. Two kinds of link

• A link to an entry. Choose the page from a picker.
• A link to a URL you type — for anything outside the site, or an address that is not an entry, such as Tidewater’s /blog listing.

A link can have a title of its own. Left empty, a link to an entry shows the entry’s title on the site — the editor shows its address instead.

3. Where it appears

A menu appears wherever the theme draws it. If one exists but does not appear anywhere, the theme is not drawing it yet — a question for whoever builds the site rather than something to fix here.

4. Menus built from files

Some menus are built from a folder of files rather than arranged here — Tidewater’s Help centre sidebar follows the help articles’ folders, so adding an article adds it to the menu.