Menu item types
Learn about the different built-in menu item types
Updated: January 12, 2024
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The Stomod menu editor comes with several types of menu items which can be assigned to menus. Each of the menu item types are eventually added as a link to the menu you choose to add them to:
- Built-in
- Tags Index - Links to the list of all tags on the blog.
- Authors Index - Links to the list of all authors on the blog.
- External Link - Allows you to manually specify a link to include in the menu.
- Button - Allows you to manually specify a link to include in the menu, except that it is rendered as a button.
- Sitemap - Links to the blog sitemap.
- Menu - Allows you to render a submenu to nest other menu items under.
- Posts - Lists all posts available on the blog which you can include as a link in your menu which opens up that specific post.
- Pages - Lists all pages available on the blog which you can include as a link in your menu which opens up that specific page
- Tags - Lists all tags available on the blog which you can include as a link which opens up a single tag view which lists all posts under that tag.
- Authors - Lists all authors writing on the blog which you can include as a link which opens up a single author view which lists all posts under that author.
Settings → MenusMenu item types configuration options
Tags Index
The Tags Index menu item type comes with the following configuration options:
- Name: The text of the link which points to the Tags Index page to appear in the menu.
- Description: A short description of the menu item which appears in dropdown menu if the Tag Index menu item is placed in a dropdown menu.
- Open in new tab: Allows the tab index page to be opened in a new tab.
Authors Index
The Authors Index menu item type comes with the following configuration options:
- Name: The text of the link which points to the Authors Index page to appear in the menu.
- Description: A short description of the menu item which appears in dropdown menu if the Author Index menu item is placed in a dropdown menu.
- Open in new tab: Allows the author index page to be opened in a new tab.
External Link
The External Link menu item type comes with the following configuration options:
- Name: The text of the external link to appear in the menu.
- Description: A short description of the menu item which appears in dropdown menu if the external link menu item is placed in a dropdown menu.
- Open in new tab: Allows the external link to be opened in a new tab.
- Link URL: The link address the external link should open when clicked.
Button
The Button menu item type is similar to the External Link menu item type except that it renders as a button. The different configurations options it comes with are:
- Name: The name of the button to appear in the menu.
- Description: A short description of the menu item which appears in dropdown menu if the button menu item is placed in a dropdown menu.
- Open in new tab: Allows the button link to be opened in a new tab.
- Link URL: The link address the button should open when clicked.
- Button Variant: Change the look of the button to one of the following options below.
- Default: Default button style, usually filled with your theme color.
- Secondary: Alternative subdued color button.
- Destructive: A catching red button for grabbing the attention of readers.
- Outline: A white background button with a border.
- Ghost/Link: A white button with no border which looks like an
External Link.
- Icon Name: The name of the icon from the Tablar icon set. to show within the button. An example of an icon name is
Mail:
This is how it would look like on the blog once configured:
Sitemap
The Sitemap menu item type automatically links to the blog sitemap and comes with the following configuration options:
- Name: The name of the sitemap link to appear in the menu.
- Description: A short description of the menu item which appears in dropdown menu if the Sitemap menu item is placed in a dropdown menu.
- Open in new tab: Allows the sitemap link to be opened in a new tab.
Menu
The menu item type allows you to defined a parent to hold sub menu items. The configuration options are as follows:
- Name: The name of the menu item to appear in the menu.
Posts/Pages/Tags/Authors
Any menu item of type posts, pages, tags, authors have the same configuration options:
- Name: The text of the post/page/tag/author page link to appear in the menu - if you want something different from the actual post/page/tag/author title.
- Description: A short description of the menu item which appears in dropdown menu if the Sitemap menu item is placed in a dropdown menu.
- Open in new tab: Allows the sitemap link to be opened in a new tab.
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