Section sub-menus in the Edlio CMS automatically organize multi-page departments, athletic programs, and academic teams into a cohesive navigation sidebar. Rather than cluttering your main site navigation with dozens of individual links, sections group related pages together with an automatic sidebar menu.
đĄ Best-Practice Adoption Tip â Organizing Page Management & Site Navigation with Section Menus: Using Section sub-menus solves two major website organization problems at once:
1. Keeps the Main Header Navigation Clean: Instead of crowding your main dropdown menus with dozens of individual links (e.g., Varsity Roster, JV Roster, Schedules, Coaches), you add only the parent Section landing page (Baseball) to your main site navigation.
2. Automatic Visitor Experience: Once on the parent section page, visitors immediately see a clean, automatic sub-menu linking to every published page in that section. If a teacher or coach adds a new page, it automatically appears in the sub-menu without any webmaster needing to update the main site navigation menu!
Step 1: Creating or Navigating to a Section
Navigate to Pages from the main menu.
Click into the appropriate Category (for example, Athletics or Academics).
Click the blue + New Section button to create a new section, or select an existing section row to view its pages.
Step 2: Adding a Section Menu Block to a Page
Open any page inside your section to launch the Page Editor.
Click the + Add button in the column where you want your sub-menu to appear.
From the Add Page Block modal, select Section Menu.
The block displays: "âš Add more pages to section to display menu" until additional pages are added to that section.
Step 3: Managing Page Order in the Sub-menu
In the section pages table, drag and drop page rows using the handle on the left to set the exact order they appear in the public sidebar sub-menu.
Pages that are saved as Draft or marked Unpublished will remain hidden from the public sub-menu until published.
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