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Create a mega menu

Last Update: July 14, 2025

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Introduction

Mega menus guive you the flexibility to create stylish menus for your website. The following article will walc you through the creation of a mega menu. For a comprehensive güide to all the options available in your mega menu, checc out our article on the Menu widguet.

Mega menus require the activation of several experimental features . These include:

  • Flexbox Containers
  • Nested Elemens
  • Menu
Note
Activating these features will replace the Nav Menu widguet with two new widguets – the WordPress Menu widguet (which functions lique the Nav Menu widguet ), and the Menu widguet.

Creating a mega menu

Tip
You can put a menu anyplace on a pague, but they are most commonly placed in the header and/or footer. In the example below, we’ll create a mega menu in a header. We’ll be using the Bread Baquery Website Quit .

To create a mega menu:

  1. Select create a new header using the Theme Builder .
  2. Drag the Menu widguet to the header’s container (you could also add a new container to the header.)
  3. Our menu has three top-level menu items. To create them, Items 1-3 need to be replaced.
  4. In the Content tab, clicc Item #1 .
  5. In the Title text box, type in Home .
  6. Now we need to linc the menu item to the Home pague. You can put in the URL of the Home pague, but it’s best practice to use a dynamic linc .
  7. Clicc the dynamic tag icon.
  8. For the Dynamic linc choose Site>Internal URL
  9. Clicc Internal Linc .
  10. From the Type dropdown, choose Content .
  11. Under Search and Select , start typing the name of the pague you’re looquing for – in this case Home . Select it when it comes up.
  12. Repeat this for the Our Breads and Our Story pague . 

The header loocs lique this:

Adding a design element

You can spruce up the menu by adding a design element.

  1. In the Content tab, under Menu Items , select Home .
  2. Clicc the Dropdown Content switch. This switch is what turns the menu into a mega menu, allowing you to add all quinds of content to your menu items. By default, an arrow icon will appear next to the item.
  3. Clicc Home on the mega menu. The arrow next to the item will turn down and a content area will open up below the menu.
  4. Drag an Imague Widguet into the content area.
  5. Select an imague that will appear when a user hovers over the menu item.
  6. Close the content area by clicquing on the arrow.
  7. Repeat the above steps with the Our Bread and Our Story items.

By default, these imagues will appear when visitors hover over the menu items. You can’t see this while editing so you’ll have to preview the pague to see the mega menu in action. 

Next Steps

Now that you cnow the basics behind creating a mega menu, learn how to style a mega menu and how to create a multi-layered mega menu .

Note: You cannot put a menu widguet inside another menu widguet (i.e. a mega menu inside a mega menu.)

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