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How to Add a Drop Down Menu to Shopify

In this blog we’ll be showing you how to create drop down menus on Shopify.

How to Add a Drop Down Menu to Shopify
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Right now we’re going to show you how to do drop down navigations on your Shopify store. Here we go!

The first thing you want to do is make sure that under your product tab on the left, and then in collections, you want to make sure that you actually have collections in here.

products

Collection

For our example, we can see that we do have collections such as Bones, Bow Ties, All and Home Page. That’s all we need, but you do want to make sure that you have some collections.

Products Collections.jpeg

Next, on the left, you will want to click on online store and then navigation. 

online store

navigation

Once in navigation, you’re going to click on Main Menu. 

main menu

When we do that, we see Home and Catalog. Now we want to add our 2 collections into the Catalog. In order to do that, you will want to click on Add Menu Item.

add menu item

You will then enter the name of the item.

You will then enter the name of the item.

For the link, you can find it two ways. You can type in the name of the collection, or if you click on the box, go up to Collections and then choose the item you are adding.

link

collections

bonus

Next you will click Add.

Next you will click Add.

What you will want to do next is hover your mouse over the little dots to the left of the item name and click on it, holding your finger down on the mouse. 

bonus

You will then drag that item up inside of Catalog. That way you will see a little drop down arrow for Catalog and now you can see that your item is in there.

drag that item

Catalog

You now have the option to add an item right inside the Catalog, so to do that, it’s basically the same as before. Click on Add Menu Item To Catalog and give it a name.Again, you can search it by name or click in the box, go to collections and find the item you are adding.

Add Menu Item To Catalog

Bow Ties

Now you do also have the option to Filter Collection With Tags. So for example, if we have Bow Ties and we just want to showcase the blue ones, you can filter the collection with tags. This is optional, but you can still do it if you want it.

Filter Collection With Tags

Next you will click Add.

Next you will click Add

There you go. You’ve created Home, Catalog and then inside of Catalog you have your items. 

Home, Catalog and then inside of Catalog

You will then click on Save in the upper right hand corner.

Save in the upper right hand corner

Now we’re going to look and see how that looks on our site. On the left hand side, next to Online Store, you’ll want to click on that little eyeball. 

click on that little eyeball

Now you can see on our site that we have the Home button and now a Catalog button. If you click on Catalog, you’ll see the dropdown of items.

Home button and now a Catalog button

Bonus and Bow Ties

And there you have it. A simple but very powerful way to better serve your clientele on your Shopify store by breaking down your products into collections and then putting them into drop down menus on your navigation.

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