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Menu Manager

Build the navigation itself - what appears in it, in what order, and who sees it. Menus are separate from layouts: the layout decides where navigation sits, the menu decides what is in it.

Introduction

A layout gives you a sidebar, a rail or a navbar. The Menu Manager fills it.

Menus live in four locations, each rendered by a different part of the shell:

LocationWhere it appears
MainThe primary navigation - the sidebar tree, the rail's flyouts, or the top navbar
SecondaryThe compact links in the header, beside the account controls
FooterThe columns in the Extended and Extended + Info footers
Footer SecondaryThe single row of links beside the copyright

Open Hadrian -> Menu and pick a location tab.

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Footer columns come from the Footer menuEach top-level item in the Footer menu becomes one column in the Extended Footer. Adding a column means adding a top-level item here, not changing a setting on the Layouts page.

Building a menu

  1. 1Open Menu and choose the location tab you want.
  2. 2Create a menu and assign it to Client, Guest or All.
  3. 3Add items - pages, custom links, dropdowns and dividers.
  4. 4Drag to reorder. Drag onto an item to nest it beneath that item.
  5. 5Expand any item to edit its label and target.
Menu builder

Audiences

Like layouts, menus target an audience:

  • Guest - shown only to visitors who are not signed in.
  • Client - shown only to signed-in customers.
  • All - shown to everyone.

That is what lets a guest see Home, Store, Contact where a client sees Dashboard, Services, Billing, Support, in the same navigation slot.

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This is a different mechanism from layout audiencesA layout audience picks the shell; a menu audience picks the contents. They are set in different places and do not have to agree - a single layout can hold different menus for guests and clients.

Item types

TypeUse it for
PageA WHMCS page. The link follows the page if its URL changes
LinkAny URL, internal or external
DropdownA parent that holds other items rather than navigating itself
DividerA visual rule between groups

Common problems

An item is missing from the client area

Check its audience. An item on a Guest menu never appears for signed-in customers, and vice versa.

Extended Footer draws one column per top-level Footer-menu item. Items nested under a parent become links inside that column, not columns of their own.

Reordering did nothing

Order is saved per location. Confirm you were on the tab for the location you meant - Main and Secondary are easy to mix up.