The Menus list in admin, under Content, showing Header Nav, Footer Nav, two docs sidebar menus, Testing Page Menu, and Footer Resources, all published

Menus

Menus are the link lists in your header, footer, and sidebars. Change one and every page updates.

How menus work

Items — each menu is a list of items, and each item has a label and a link.
Links — four link types: a raw URL, a route, an entry (a page or post, by ID), or a category or tag.
Nesting — give an item children and it becomes a dropdown.
Placement — the basic theme puts Header Nav in the header and Footer Nav plus Footer Resources in the footer. Put any menu into a page or post as a Menu widget, or into a theme file with a menu embed, and style it however you like.

Go to Content → Menus and click Add New.
Name the menu and set its slug.
Click + Add item, then pick a link type and set its target.
Nest an item under another with + child.
Reorder items with ↑ ↓.
Click Save.
Open Advanced on an item for a CSS class, icon, description, link rel, or open-in-new-tab.

The Menus list in admin, under Content, showing Header Nav, Footer Nav, two docs sidebar menus, Testing Page Menu, and Footer Resources, all published — Your menus, under Content → Menus.

Editing the Header Nav menu: a Docs item with nested Getting Started, Install, Quickstart, Concepts, and How It Works items indented beneath it — Editing the header menu. Indented items become dropdowns.

Try it

This is a live menu, dropped into this page as a widget.

On the site

The Docs item in the site header nav, open as a dropdown, showing Getting Started, Concepts, and their nested sub-items — The same menu on the site.

A page using the docs sidebar template shows the menu whose slug matches the page — for example, docs-how-tovu-works-sidebar.

Coming Soon: menus written in raw HTML — your own markup and styling, links wherever you want.