Goal: Set up a dropdown menu in Shopify’s Dawn theme to list product collections with step-by-step guidance.
What was provided: Community shared Shopify’s help doc and multiple YouTube tutorials. One reply gave clear step-by-step instructions using the Navigation settings. The original poster confirmed the second video solved the issue within minutes.
Key steps (condensed):
In Shopify admin: Online Store > Navigation > Main menu.
Add or choose a header menu item; to keep it non-clickable, set its link to #.
Add menu items for each collection and select their destinations.
Drag items to nest them under the header (to form the dropdown).
Save menu.
Outcome: Resolved. The dropdown now works. The poster found video instructions more effective than written documentation.
Other notes: Some unrelated promotional links appeared later and were not relevant to the solution.
Summarized with AI on December 23.
AI used: gpt-5.
It’s midnight right now and I’ve tried (for hours) to get my drop down menu to work for all my collections for my product. I just can’t get it to work correctly at all. I’m not as computer savvy as most, but I’ve come this far. Could someone please give me step-by-step on how to do this? I literally would need to know the steps on how to get my drop down menu to work. I have all the products I want. I have the collections for each product visible. I just need to get the product to have the drop down menu of all the collections I have, and I can’t do it. Please help me!!!
You wake up all night and struggle with your drop-down menu tells us the level of dedication and seriousness for your online store! Well, let me help you with it.
I dug on the internet and found some valuable resources that might help you solve your query. Here’s how you can add a dro-down menu from the main menu -
From your Shopify admin, go to Online store > navigation.
Click the name of your main menu.
Please choose one of the menu items as the header for your drop-down menu, or add a new menu item as its header. If you don’t want the header to link to anything, then ender # in the link field when you add the menu item,
Add menu items to include in the new drop-down menu. Click add menu item, enter the menu item’s name, and enter or select a destination for the link.
Click and drag the menu items to nest below the header item.
Click on “save menu.”
You can also check these 2 tutorials that explain well about how you can create a drop-down menu in the Dawn theme-
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Yeah! I read that before and it didn’t help at all. I’m not good when it comes to understanding things written down… It has to be step by step by step or I get completely lost. Thanks, nevertheless, for reaching out to me. Appreciate it.
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