Category menu

Only full sites have this menu: it is not included in single space sites. Read more.

The category menu is the main navigation of a global site and full site, located at the top of all the site’s pages. The menu follows the content structure created with categories.

To edit the category menu’s settings:

  1. Go to the Refined Administration.

  2. Go to the Navigation tab.

Users can navigate the category menu with their mouse, as well as with their keyboard.

Category menu settings

Setting

Description

Setting

Description

Disable site home link

Select to remove the link to the site home from the menu.

Name

Display name of the link to the site home.

Dropdown

Select to show

Layout

Choose one of three different ways to display dropdown lists in the menu: dynamic, multi, or single column.

Content size

Size of the items in dropdown lists in the menu: small, medium or large.

Collapsed subcategories

Select to load items in the dropdown menu in a collapsed state. Users can toggle between collapsed and expanded to show or hide the content.

Min column width

The minimum width for columns in dropdown lists.

Exclude archived spaces

Select to not show archived spaces in dropdown lists.

Click and hover

Select to let the dropdown items automatically open on hover once a drop down menu has been clicked.

Note: Loading a category drop down is a big operation for the server if frontend caching is not activated. Hence we always recommend using this settings together with frontend caching.

Display site home icon

Display category logos

Display space logos

Display space icons

Content

Click the Site Builder button to edit the menu’s content.