Menu and footer links
Put your own links in the top bar of your site, and see where the links in the header and footer come from.
The top bar of your site is how visitors find their way around. Out of the box your theme shows sensible links, such as Browse, Blog and FAQ. With Design › Menu you replace them with your own: a link to your “How to sell” page, your best category, your shop on another site, anything with an address.
How the menu works
- No links in Design › Menu: your theme shows its default links. In Nova that is Browse, plus Blog, FAQ and Forums when those features are switched on.
- One or more links: your links replace the default ones. Add every link you want visitors to see, including the defaults you want to keep.
In Nova, the Post an ad button, the sign-in and account menu and the category bar under the header always stay; they are not part of the menu.
Add a link
- In the admin panel, go to Design › Menu.
- Click + Add link.
- Fill in the form (see the table below).
- Click Add link.
| Field | What to enter |
|---|---|
| Title | The text visitors see, for example How it works. Keep it short so the bar fits on smaller screens. |
| URL | The full address the link opens, for example https://www.example.com/how-it-works.html. |
| Opens in | Same tab for pages on your site, New tab for other websites. |
| Icon | Optional. Click the field and pick an icon to show before the title, or type its name (for example fa fa-home). |
| Language | Only on multilingual sites. See the note below. |
Links that start with javascript:, data: or vbscript: are refused, so a menu link can never run a script on
your visitors’ browsers.
Addresses on your own site
The easiest way to get the right address is to open the page on your site and copy it from your browser’s address bar. On an English site the main pages are:
| Page | Address after your domain |
|---|---|
| All listings | /all |
| A category | / followed by the category’s SEO name, for example /cars |
| Post a listing | /publish-new.html |
| Search | /search.html |
| Contact | /contact.html |
| One of your pages | / followed by its SEO title and .html, for example /about-us.html |
| Blog, FAQ, Forum | /blog, /faq, /forum |
| Member directory | /user |
On a site in another language some addresses are translated, which is why copying them from the browser is safest.
Reorder, edit or delete links
- Reorder: drag a link by its handle (the dots on the left) to a new position. The order is saved straight away.
- Edit: click Edit next to the link, change it and click Save.
- Delete: click Edit, then Delete and confirm. Delete every link to bring back the theme’s default links.
Where the footer links come from
You don’t edit the footer link by link. In Nova the footer is built for you:
| Footer column | What it lists | How to change it |
|---|---|---|
| Your site name | Your Site Description, and icons for your social profiles. | Description in Settings › General; social links in Design › Theme Options › General (Facebook link, Twitter link, Instagram link). |
| Marketplace | Browse Listings, Post an ad, Pricing (when membership plans are on) and Map (when the map is on). | Follows your settings. |
| Information | Every published page, in page order, plus Blog, FAQ and Contact. | Publish, unpublish or reorder pages under Pages in the admin panel. |
| Account | Log in and Sign up, or My Listings, My Favorites and Edit profile for signed-in members. | Automatic. |
Need more in the footer? Add footer widgets, such as Links or Follow, or a Footer banner in Theme options.
Things to know
- Links per language: on multilingual sites the form lets you give each
link a language, but the themes show every link in every language. You can’t have a separate menu per language
today. What works: use short titles that make sense in all your languages (or an icon), and link to your own
pages with an address that is the same in every language, such as
/about-us.html. If each language has its own version of the page under that address, visitors get the one in their language. - No submenus: each link is a single item in the bar; links can’t be grouped into drop-downs.
- Space: on phones the top bar folds into a menu button, but on a laptop too many links push each other onto two lines. Five or six short links is a good maximum.
- Changes don’t show? See My changes don’t show up.
Related guides
- Pages — create the pages your menu and footer link to.
- Widgets — add blocks of links to the sidebar or footer.
- Theme options — social links and the category bar under the header.
Updated 7 October 2026 · Suggest an edit