---
title: Setting up navigation
url: https://support.troopthemes.com/guide/beyond/creating-navigation/
theme: Beyond
theme_styles: Fleur
---

# Setting up navigation in Beyond

Menus are created in Shopify admin. The theme only **displays** the menu you assign in the Header, Footer, or a section.

**Content** → **Menus** to create items. Assign the menu in **Edit theme** → **Header**, **Footer**, or the section.

Checkout, apps, and collection filters are unchanged.

> **Info**
>
> Visit Shopify's help centre for an extensive guide on setting up [menus and links](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/menus-and-links).

Menus can display as a single dropdown or in multi-columns with nested items.

### Single dropdown menu (Beyond)

To create a single dropdown menu, click the title of the menu that you would like to add a dropdown menu to.
In most cases, this is called _Main Menu_ unless it has been renamed to something else.

Next, you will need to add 'child' items to include in the new drop-down.

Click _Add menu item_, enter a name of the menu item and select a destination for the link.

Click and drag the menu items to nest below the 'parent' item.

Click _Save_ menu.

![Menu items nested under Shop in Menus](https://support.troopthemes.com/_images/navigation-single-column-admin.jpg)

### Multi-column dropdown menu (Beyond)

You can create multi-column drop-down menus up to three levels deep.

To create third-level menu items, repeat the process for creating a dropdown and nest them below a second-level menu item.

If a second-level menu item has no nested items, it is styled in a separate column (for example _New in_ and _Sale_).


## Creating other menus (Beyond)

All other store menus can be configured in your store admin under **Content** → **Menus**.

![creating other menus admin](https://support.troopthemes.com/_images/navigation-main-menu-other.jpg)

Once a menu is configured, assign it in **Edit theme** → **Header** (or Footer / the section).

## Troubleshooting (Beyond)

- **You edited Menus and the header didn’t change**: the **Header** section is still assigned a different menu. Open Header and pick the menu you just edited.
- **A link 404s**: the menu item URL is wrong in **Content** → **Menus**, not a theme setting.
- **Mega-menu columns look wrong**: nesting depth in **Content** → **Menus** drives columns. Second-level items with no children become their own column (see _New in_ / _Sale_ above).


## Text menu (Beyond)

**Text menu** is a design section, not the header. It will not change header links. See [Brand and story sections](https://support.troopthemes.com/guide/beyond/brand-and-story-sections/).