Link a menu to your header

The single most common navigation question: "I made a menu - why isn't it on my site?"

Menus and the header are deliberately separate. A menu is a reusable list of links; the header (or footer) displays whichever menu you point it at. That separation is what lets you build several menus and swap them without rebuilding anything - or show the same menu in both header and footer.

Wiring it up

1. Open Header & Footer.
2. Select the header on the canvas.
3. In the sidebar under Navigation, pick your menu from the dropdown.
4. Save.

The same steps work for the footer - it has its own Navigation setting, and it's fine to give it a different menu (say, a fuller list than the header carries).

Once a menu is linked, the header's Layout tab unlocks the nav styling options: alignment, link style, size, weight and spacing.

Still not seeing links?

• Empty menu - a linked menu with no items renders nothing. Add items in Menus.
• Draft pages - links to unpublished pages are hidden from visitors until the page goes live.
• Unsaved changes - the wiring applies when you hit Save in the Header & Footer editor.