The position of content in your website’s menus can be changed by manipulating the ‘Parent’ and ‘Order’ fields located in the Quick Edit options, or while editing an item in the Page Attributes section.
Setting the ‘Parent’ will move the content to that section of the website, while adjusting the ‘Order’ determines how high the page appears in lists of sub-pages in the section you chose from the ‘Parent’ dropdown menu. The lower the number, the higher it will appear in the list, i.e. setting the ‘Order’ to ‘1’ will place the new page at the top of the list. If you do this, you must update the link from the top-level menu item to the new top item in it’s menu. For an explanation of this, please visit this page.
Managing Menus
When creating new pages, always make sure to assign a proper order. The default order for newly created pages is 0, and if multiple pages have the same order, they will swap positions in the menu at random. If you notice this happening, change every Order number for the items in that menu to a numbered order.
The GVSD school websites feature a multi-levelled navigation menu that allows for some customization but is limited by its interaction with several of the website’s more complicated features and content types. Basic pages can be created and introduced fluidly into the sitemap, but other content types, such as ‘News,’ ‘Spotlights’ and ‘Quick Links,’ are designed in a way to integrate themselves naturally into the website without being a part of the overall sitemap/menu system.
As such, much of the main navigation menu is static. Items can be re-ordered within their parent item, but generally cannot be moved to a new parent.
Because of these limitations, it is recommended that any sitemap revisions made should be minor (adjusting a page’s order within its parent element), and any major sitemap revisions should be avoided or handled by GVSD website administrators.
Important: Please do no edit, rename, delete, set to draft, or change the parent of the top-level menu items. We have implemented standard top-level menus in order to help various users of the site (students, parents, staff, admin) to be able to move from one school site to another and quickly know where to find information. Some pages also require being in a certain position to function properly, like the Photo Gallery, Contact / Directions, Fundraising, etc. Click here to learn more about these ‘Display Pages’. If you wish to remove a pre-existing page from you site, set it to Draft, do not delete it.
Default Template Menu Layouts
The following is a list of stock websites if you wish to view the default layout of the menus for the Elementary, Middle, Secondary, and Alternative templates: