# Add, remove, or edit menu items in your online store

You can add menu items to your online store and customer accounts menus to build your store's menus. Menu items are links to products, collections, webpages, blog posts, policies, customer account pages, or other websites. You can also remove or edit menu items.

In most cases, you need to create an item before you can link to it. For example, you need to [create a collection](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/collections) before you can add it to a menu.

If you delete a resource that you use in your store's menus, then any associated menu items are also deleted. For example, if you delete a collection that you use for an **On sale** menu item, then both the collection and the menu item are deleted.

You can view and change your online store menus from the [**Menus**](https://admin.shopify.com/content/menus) page in your Shopify admin.

### Add a menu item <a href="#add-menu-item" id="add-menu-item"></a>

You can add menu items for the following link types:

| Link type             | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Home page**         | Your online store's home page                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| **Search**            | Your online store's search page                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| **Collections**       | A specific collection or all collections                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| **Products**          | A specific product or all products                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| **Pages**             | A webpage on your online store                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| **Blogs**             | A blog on your online store                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| **Blog posts**        | A specific blog post on your online store                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| **Policies**          | One of your [store policies](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/checkout-settings/refund-privacy-tos)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| **Customer accounts** | <p>A link to any of the following customer accounts pages:</p><ul><li>- <strong>Orders</strong>: Your customer's order page</li><li>- <strong>Profile</strong>: Your customer's profile page</li><li>- <strong>Settings</strong>: Your customer's settings page</li><li>- <strong>Apps</strong>: App pages that are related to the customer experience, such as loyalty or subscription apps</li></ul> |
| **External page**     | A website address for an external website, which you can add in the **Search for a page or paste a URL** field.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| **Email link**        | To create an email link, use the format `mailto:youremail@example.com` in the **Search for a page or paste a URL** field.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |

**Steps:**

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1. From your Shopify admin, go to **Content** > [**Menus**](https://admin.shopify.com/content/menus).
2. On the **Menus** page, click the title of the menu that you want to edit.
3. Click **Add menu item**.
4. Enter a name for the menu item. This name displays in the menu, and can include special characters or emojis.
5. Click the **Search or paste a link** field, and then enter a website address for an external website, or select a link type.
6. If you select a specific collection, then you can filter the collection with tags to display only the products that match all of the tags that you enter.
7. If you select a link type, such as **Products** or **Pages**, then select a specific destination. When you select **Home page**, the destination is automatically set to your online store's home page.
8. When you select a link type and a specific destination, then the name of the destination, such as a product title or page title, is automatically populated in the **Name** field unless you have already entered a name.
9. Click **Add** to add your menu item.
10. Click **Save** or **Save menu**.

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### Edit a menu item <a href="#edit-menu-item" id="edit-menu-item"></a>

When editing your menus, each action, such as add, edit, delete, and move, counts as a *change*. After you've hit 200 changes, further actions are restricted until you save your menu changes. Clicking or tapping the **Save** button resets the counter. Save your menu changes often to ensure you don't reach the change limit.

**Steps:**

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1. From your Shopify admin, go to **Content** > [**Menus**](https://admin.shopify.com/content/menus).
2. Click the name of the menu that includes the item.
3. In the **Menu items** section, click **Edit** beside the name of the item.
4. Make any changes:
   * To change the name of the menu item, enter text in the **Name** field.
   * To change the destination of the menu item, click the `x` next to the link field, and then enter or select a new destination.
5. Click **Apply changes**.
6. Click **Save** or **Save menu**.

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### Change the display order of menu items <a href="#change-display-order-menu-items" id="change-display-order-menu-items"></a>

You can view the display order of menu items on the [**Menus**](https://admin.shopify.com/menus) page. The menu items display on your online store in the order that they're listed.

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1. From your Shopify admin, go to **Content** > [**Menus**](https://admin.shopify.com/content/menus).
2. Click the title of the menu that you want to reorder.
3. Click and hold the handle icon (⠿) beside the menu item, and then drag the menu item to another position.
4. Click **Save** or **Save menu**.

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### Remove a menu item <a href="#remove-menu-item" id="remove-menu-item"></a>

You can remove a menu item to delete it from your online store menus. When you remove a menu item that has items nested below it in a drop-down menu, the nested menu items are also removed and the drop-down menu is removed from your online store menus.

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1. From your Shopify admin, go to **Content** > [**Menus**](https://admin.shopify.com/content/menus).
2. Hover on the menu item row that you want to delete, and then click the trash icon.
3. Click **Remove** to confirm.
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