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title: "Menus"
canonical: "https://kb.uconn.edu/space/IKB/27464335381/Menus"
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To add a menu to your site, you must first create the menu. by default the [Top Nav](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/10787029227) and [Footer](https://kb.uconn.edu/space/IKB/27464106001) menus are already created.  

## Create a New Menu

1. On the dashboard, go to **Appearance > Menus**.
2. Under Edit Menus, on the **Select a menu to edit** line, click on the text link **create a new menu**.
3. Enter the **Menu Name**
4. Click on **Create Menu**.
5. Now you have to select the new menu from the drop down.
6. Click on Select
7. Verify you are editing the correct menu by checking the Menu Name.
8. Now add items to the menu.

## Creating a Drop-Down Menu

To make a drop-down menu, you need to create a **placeholder menu item.**

1. Click **Custom Links**.
2. Enter a # sign.
3. The label can be whatever you would like to call this group of pages.

![dropdown-parent-20250128-164501.png](media://fb00e2d3-09bb-4461-8e80-864bbd7a6aef)

## Add menus 

There are different ways to add the menu to the site or page, see the following articles for more information:

[Top Nav](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/10787029227)

[In-Page](https://kb.uconn.edu/space/IKB/10785227980)

[Sidebar](https://kb.uconn.edu/space/IKB/10787030151)

[Footer](https://kb.uconn.edu/space/IKB/27464106001)