New Menu and Block

In Drupal, blocks and menus can be tightly linked.

This exercise will show you how to:

• create a new Menu item (block)
• move (existing) menu-links to your new Menu block
• place it in the region you want

Menu Changes wanted

This image here shows what I want: which is to move some existing menu-links into a new menu.

Create a new Menu

Administer > Site Building > Menus > Add menu^[tab]
The fields you fill in:

Field	I entered..	Comment
Menu name	site-info	Required. Only lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens. Must be unique. This is the machine-readable name of this menu item.
Title	Site Info	Required. This is the label or name for the 'block' which will contain the items in this menu.
Description.	Menu for site info like About Us, Contact Us, Privacy Policy, etc.	Optional. This is an internal description for your benefit only. It will help you remember what this menu is for.

Once you have finished filling in the fields, click Save.

You will now see the newly created menu "Site Info" show up in the admin navigation, under Menus.

Move Existing menu-links to new Menu

As you can see, I want to move some links from the Secondary Links section into our new menu "Site Info".
To move them from the Secondary links menu, go to:
Administer > Site Building > Menus > Secondary links

This now effectively says that that the 'parent' menu for that link is now our new menu "Site Info".
Do that for each fo the relevant links to be moved to the new menu.

Move new Menu block to desired Region

Now even though you have moved the menu links from the 'Secondary links' menu to our new "Site Info" menu, your users will still not be able to see that on your website.

As mentioned above, when you create a new Menu, it automatically is a 'block' which can be moved to a 'region' of your choice. However you have to enable that menu-block so that it can be visible.

Administer > Site building > Blocks
Here you will see that our menu-block "Site Info" is under the 'Disabled' blocks section.

In my case, I have moved it to the left sidebar, below the User login. And once you 'Save blocks', your new menu will be visible on your site.

So now the old links have been removed and moved into the new menu: