Beginning Drupal 8

Adding an Item to a Menu
Chapter 7 ■ Creating Menus
There are two general items that we can add to our page as menu items: a link to an existing element on our
site (a page, a content item, a list of content associated with a taxonomy term, and so on), or a link to a page
that is external to our site (e.g., www.drupal.org).
Adding a Content Item to a Menu
There are two approaches for adding items to menus:
• The best practice is to use the content creation form (see Figure 7-2) or, as we will
see later in the book, other element creation forms such as a panel page or a view.
The reason for using this approach is that when you delete that content item, Drupal
automatically removes the item from the menu to which it was assigned. If you use
the manual approach of creating a menu item using the menu administration form,
you as the site owner must remember to remove that item manually from the menu
• You can also use the menu administration form (see Figure 7-3) to create a new
menu item, or you can create a menu link from the content item that you wish to
reference from within the form used to create or edit that content item...
Figure 7-2. Adding a content item to a menu
To create a new content item, click any of the “Add content” links that are available on the homepage
of your website (assuming you are still logged in as the administrator), and select the “Basic page” content
type. As an example, enter a title and body for the new content type and then click the Menu Settings link in
the right column. Check the “Provide a menu link” box, which reveals the fields for defining your menu (see
Figure 7-2). Enter the title for the item as you wish it to appear on the menu, and in the “Parent item” dropdown
list select the “Main navigation” menu as the one where you want the item to appear. After entering
the values for your menu item, click the “Save and publish” button at the bottom of the page. Drupal then
displays the page that you just created, with the menu item associated with this page now appearing in the
Main navigation menu at the top left of the header area of the page.
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