# Menus, blog and pages

> Build your shop's navigation, write blog posts and create your own pages such as About us.



Here we cover three things that belong together: the menus visitors use to navigate, the blog and your own pages. You'll find all of them under **Shop** in the side menu.

## Menus

Go to <Path>Shop → Menus</Path>. You can have several menus, for example a main menu for the header and a smaller menu for the footer.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create a menu">
    Click **New menu** and give it a name, for example "Main menu".
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add menu items">
    A menu item is either a **Link** or a **Dropdown**. A dropdown expands and can contain up to 30 sub-links and dividers. A menu can have up to 40 items.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose where the link goes">
    The link picker searches your pages, blog posts, experiences, staff and the shop's fixed pages. If you later change the address (slug) of a page, the link follows automatically.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Sort">
    Drag the items into the order you want.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Screenshot id="butik-menyer-redigera" alt="Editing a menu with links and a dropdown" />

### Place the menu

You choose which menu appears in the header and footer in the [web editor](/channels/shop/web-editor), under **Header** and **Footer**. In the menu list you can see which menus are **Active** and which are **Not placed**.

## Blog

Go to <Path>Shop → Blog</Path> and click **New post**. A blog post has:

* A **Title** and slug, i.e. the address under `/blog/…`.
* An **Excerpt** shown in the blog list (optional).
* A **Cover image**.
* Body text that you write in a standard text editor.
* **Published** under **Publishing**: switch on when the post should appear in the shop. Until then it's a draft.
* **SEO**: a custom **SEO title**, **SEO description** and **Share image**, and **Hide from search engines** if the post shouldn't be indexed. Empty fields use the post's title, excerpt and cover image.

You design how the blog list and the posts look in the editor, on the Blog and Blog post page types.

<Screenshot id="butik-blogg-redigera" alt="Editing a blog post with title, slug, excerpt, cover image and content" />

## Your own pages

Go to <Path>Shop → Pages</Path> and click **New page**, for example for "About us" or "Getting here". The page ends up at `/pages/din-slug`.

Your own page opens directly in the [web editor](/channels/shop/web-editor), both when you create it and when you click it in the list. There you build the content with sections, just like the home page. You set the title, slug, whether the page is **Published** or a **Draft**, and the page's SEO under **Page settings** in the editor's toolbar. The page appears in the shop once it's published.

<Screenshot id="butik-sidor-lista" alt="The list of your own pages with address, status, last modified and SEO score" />

<Callout type="tip">
  Don't forget to add the new page to a menu, otherwise visitors won't find it.
</Callout>

## Lists and translation

The lists of pages and posts have search and a status filter (**Published** and **Unpublished**). You also open and delete them from there.

If you change the slug of a page or post, a redirect from the old address is created automatically.

If you have several languages, you translate a blog post in the **Translation** card in the editing view, and your own page by switching language in the editor. Read more in [Languages and currencies](/settings/languages-and-currencies).