How can I duplicate a navigation menu for seasonal changes?

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Ahead of Christmas last year I was astonished to see that I couldn’t duplicate a navigation menu and reached out to support and was told that it wasn’t possible at that time.

I am raising again now here so that others can tell you that this is needed and so that you can get it sorted ahead of Christmas this year.

I wanted to add a Christmas section to my reasonably complex navigation menu.
I wanted to test the menu in my online shop preview, then swap the current menu for the Christmas menu once I was happy with it.
I then wanted to swap back to my old menu after Christmas.

I can see that my two options are:

  • Recreate the entire menu and add the Christmas section (seems crazy) and prone to errors and very time consuming.
  • Edit the live menu to add the Christmas sections, then edit the live menu again after Christmas (seems crazy) and prone to errors.

PLEASE add a straightforward way to duplicate menus…

Thanks.

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@Online_Seller ,

Can you share your Shopify store URL ?

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Hi @oscprofessional ,

Thanks for your interest, but I don’t wish to share my store url as I don’t see that it is relevant to the thread and wish to have a separation between the online presence of the store and the forum.

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I also need this feature of duplicate menu. I have created a main menu of all categories and i have to create again whole menu for header with limited categories and add again all the collection one by one. Really frustrating.

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I also desperately need this feature - I am incredulous that it doesn’t already exist as I have hours of work in creating a new menu!

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Same, same same! I also need this option desperately, when switching up the menu, all current options - are as already mentioned heavily in this thread - ridiculous options , like updating the live theme without the ability to test, and/or extremely time consuming. Please fix this!!! :face_with_crossed_out_eyes:

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I surprised its not a thing yet. +1 for this feature (or at least let us have access to the code part of this list so we can edit/copy paste in bulk instead of this tedious chore by clicking on menus and selecting things from dropdowns…)

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Still need this feature, will it ever happen…?

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Omg this has not been solved yet? I also need the same thing. It’s so complicated to have a duplicate menu function? Or else just propose a way we can do so.

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There’s no Shopify API functionality to list/create menus, so this problem can’t be solved with an app either. (Otherwise, I would build one).

The most you can do is fetch a menu by ID, read-only: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront/2022-07/queries/menu

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Our business is incredibly seasonal. Not having this feature is a huge pain point and a drain on my team’s time and resources.

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well, it would be great to have dynamic menus based on metafields and/or tags. you can do this in theme. i want clone/duplicate and import/export too. oh, and the Product default sort should be – at the very least – date created descending

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This thing really needs to be done. Even I am having the same trouble.

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Adding my vote here to this feature request after having spent an afternoon manually re-creating a complex menu in order not to have to edit it on the live site. A simple duplicate button would be an amazing addition.

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I can duplicate existing navigation menus or copy your navigation menus to other stores…for a small fee :heart_eyes:

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It’s silly that this is not a feature. Creating a Launchpad event with a new theme needs to have new navigation.

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I can help with that no problem. Drip me an email.

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Seems like this is an issue that may never get solved. I’m currently having the same issues with having to recreate it for my YMM automotive site.

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Same here. Tired of having to recreate new menus as I test out different formats to build out menus specifically for automotive-related setup.

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I’m now thinking about how I can do this w/ Metaobjects