Shopify - Navigation - Automatically Generate Menu Links (Theme Customisation)

Who is this article for?

If you’ve had your Shopify site developed by Tower & your developer has advised this Theme Setting is available to you.

This is not a standard Theme feature. Furthermore, if you change Themes, this feature will no longer be available.

What does this Shopify Theme customisation do?

1. Allows you to automatically keep your website navigation up-to-date with Retailer Categories or equivalent. 
   
2. Allows you to link to filters within your collection rather than linking separate collections, helpful when you have related categories to showcase.
   

This feature is a great way to manage major Retailer stock updates without the need to manage dropdown links.
You can decide to leave it on or use it temporarily to help you manage a normal menu setup.

How does it work? 

1. By default, this feature looks through Retailer Category data found within active products in a Shopify Collection linked within your menu.
   
2. Depending on your TWC Sync Settings, your setup may be based on Categories, Product Types or even custom prefixed Tags.
   
3. It is activated via your Theme's Settings and may require additional steps in your menu.
   

Review your Theme Settings for specific instructions

Example Setup

Here is a walkthrough for one setup that finds all active tags (Categories & Tags) + a placeholder (any menu link) to activate.

This is a general guide. If you have followed your specific Theme Settings instructions & still having trouble please contact Support. Our Web Team will then get in touch as needed

1. Enable/Disable feature via Theme Settings:
   
1. From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
   
2. Next to the theme you want to edit, click Customize.
   
3. In the theme editor, look for the Theme settings icon, located as the second option, under the first option, Sections.
   
   
1. Theme Settings also display within when reviewing a related section (i.e. Header)
   
4. Locate the heading 'Auto Generate Categories', 'Tower Customisations', or equivalent
   
5. Tick or Untick Auto Generate Tags
   
2. Setup the Menu on Shopify
   
1. If required, navigate to the main menu on Shopify (from your Shopify Admin Panel, go to Online Store > Navigation > Main menu (or your equivalent navigation that is your main menu).
   
2. Add a link to your Collection as you would normally. Click Add menu item, click the Link field textbox and select Collection then the Department or Collection you wish to add.
   
3. Change the Name field (this is the display name that customers will see for the link on the website)
   
4. Click Add menu item again, click the Link field textbox and select Homepage. Change the Name textbox field to menu item.
   
5. Using the 6 dots, next to the menu item that you’ve just created left click and drag and drop the menu item underneath the Collection link you’ve created:
   
6. Click Save.
   
3. Repeat for any new collections added.
   
1. If unsure, refer to previous links added..

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