Custom menus

It could be that your website needs extra menus, and perhaps menus which don't appear on every page.

With Drupal, you can add as many custom menus as you wish.

Creating a custom menu

Go to Navigation | Administer | Site building | Menus and click the Add menu tab. Enter the information for your new menu:

• Menu name, the machine readable name for your menu. This must be a unique name, containing only lower case letters, numbers and hyphens. It is used to construct URLs, but apart from that it is not visible to users. It is often a good idea to base it on the title, eg if your title is “Find recipes” the menu name might be find_recipes.
• Title, the user visible name of the menu. It usually appears as a title above the menu.
• Description, the description of the new menu. It is only seen by the administrator when looking at the menu admin page.

Adding items to the menu

Go to Navigation | Administer | Site building | Menus and choose your menu. Add items in exactly the same way as for the Primary links menu.

You can create sub-menus too, of course, as descibed for the Navigation menu

Displaying the menu

A custom menu takes the form of a Block. Control it in exactly the same way as any other block.

If you go to Navigation | Administer | Site building | Blocks , you can decide where on the page it should appear. Menus are normally vertical lists, so look best when displayed in a sidebar. If you want a top or bottom menu, it is necessary to edit the theme, although it can be a relatively simple edit.

In addition, remember that the Blocks page allows you to control when the block is displayed. Use the configure link. This allows you to decide which types of user can see the menu, and which pages the menu will appear on. This is no different to any othe block, for more information see the Blocks section.