Emigo equips you with a kind of menu called Mega menu whose sample is placed on Shop page of our demo site. Basically, it has some typical features:
• The first one, a noticeable feature is that Mega menu allows you to organize sub-menus according to columns. Meanwhile, sub-menus are usually arranged in conformity with hierarchy.
• The structure of a mega menu contains Mega menu heading, sub-pages and widget area.
• Mega menu helps icons to be shown next to pages and sub-pages on the Navigation bar
In order that you can better perceive how to build a Mega menu, we will opt Shop page in which Mega menu is created. Please follow these steps:
Step 1: Navigate to
Appearance > Menus > do the same steps mentioned in
Set Up Menu to obtain structure of the mega menu on
Shop page as in the image
Step 2: Click the triangle icon on the right of Shop pages item then it will expand into many options like:
Navigation label: name of the parent page (Shop page)
Icon: you can select an icon of the page and change size, color and position of the icon here. Click the arrow icon to opt an icon and click the stick icon to make alternations to the icon.
Enable Mega menu: ticking this box allows display of megamenu
Mega menu column: This option has a drop-down list of different numbers of columns shown in Mega menu area. The number varies from 2 to 6. On our demo site, this number is 3.
Hide Mega menu heading: Check this box if you want to hide Mega menu heading. In our demo, Shop pages item is considered to be a Mega Menu heading. When you choose option of hiding mega menu heading, Shop pages title will automatically disappear on Mega menu area.
Step 3: Regarding Shop Page item, it is a Custom link. Therefore, you also have common options like URL, Navigation, Title Attribute and Icon. Besides, you will have an extra option named Mega Menu Widget Area which contains a drop-down list. Thus, you will have to opt Select Widget area whereas the remaining options in this drop-down list will make Shop pages item become a widget area.
Step 4: As for sub-pages like Wishlist, My account, Cart and Checkout, you only need to modify three options which are Navigation Label, Title Attribute and Icon.
Step 5: With regards to Categories and Popular Brands, they are Custom Links. Thus, you can figure out that options of Categories and Popular Brands are similar to those of Shop Page. For instance, as for Categories, you will enter a URL, Navigation Label (Categories), choose Select Widget Area in the drop-down list of Mega Menu Widget Area.
Besides, Categories and Popular Brands items have some sub-items which are also Custom links.
Step 6: Column 4 generates the widget area which contains 2 images.
Therefore, before making any changes to options included in this item, please assure that you created a sidebar and a widget corresponding to it.
• We have a sidebar called Menu Sidebar One.
Learn more about creating sidebars:
http://nootheme.com/documents/sidebars-widgets-5/
• Next, we will go to Appearance> Widgets> drag Text widget to Menu Sidebar One> click the triangle icon on the right of the widget> paste link of the image into content section (See the illustrative image to know how to add link)> Save.
Learn more about adding widgets to a sidebar:
http://nootheme.com/documents/sidebars-widgets-5/
Column 4 is a Custom Link. So it has some options like URL, Navigation Label, Icon, Mega Menu Widget Area (select Menu Sidebar One in the drop-down list)
