Atelier CMS by AIncient Labs

Header & footer menus

Manage your navigation yourself in the Navigation & Pages studio — links that track your pages, nest as deep as you like, and publish site-wide

The agent shapes your layout and identity, but it doesn't touch your navigation — you manage the header and footer links yourself in the inline menu editor in the Navigation & Pages studio, or add a page straight from the page itself.

Menus are yours to edit. The agent won't add, rename, or reorder navigation links — it shapes the page content and brand around them.

Open the menu editor

From the top nav, open the Site menu, choose Navigation & Pages, then switch to the Header or Footer tab. Each tab holds an inline editor for that menu.

In either tab you can:

  • Add a new link.
  • Rename its label.
  • Re-point it at a different destination.
  • Reorder links by dragging them, or with move up / move down.
  • Nest a link under another by dropping it on that link's submenu button, or with Nest under previous link. Move out of submenu (or dropping it on a breadcrumb) takes it back up a level.
  • Show or hide a link with the Shown toggle.
  • Remove a link entirely.

Each link targets one of two things. Flip the URL | Page switch under its label to choose:

Page

Pick one of your published pages. The link then tracks that page — it always points at the page's current published URL, so renaming or re-aliasing the page keeps the menu correct on its own.

URL

Type any address — a path like /workshops, or a full external link like https://….

For Fernway Botanical Studio, you might set a Page link to your Care Guides page and a URL link to your Instagram — side by side in the same header.

Nest menus as deep as you like

Menus can nest to any depth. Use a link's go-in control — the chevron with a child-count badge — to drill into its children. Drag a link onto another link's go-in control to nest it there. A breadcrumb like Header menu › Workshops shows where you are, and you step back up through it.

On the published site, nesting renders automatically:

  • A header parent opens a drop-down of its children.
  • Footer children group as a column under their parent.

Add a page from the page itself

The common case — "put this page in the menu" — doesn't need the menu editor. Open the page in the Pages studio and use Add to menu in its side panel: pick the Main or Footer menu, and where it goes (top level, or under one of the links already there). The link is added to the menu's draft, not published: choose Review in Navigation to see it in place, then publish from there. If the page is already in that menu, it tells you instead of adding it twice.

The draft lives in your browser tab until you publish or discard it, so publish before you reload the page.

Publish

Edit the menu

Add, reorder, and re-point links in the Header or Footer tab. Your changes stay in an unsaved draft.

Publish

Click Publish. The header and footer update site-wide immediately.

Tip

Use Page links wherever you can. Because they follow the page, you can rename or re-alias a page later without ever coming back to fix a broken menu item.

Navigation & Pages studio

See the full studio — header, footer, and special-page routing in one place.

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