If you are restructuring your site, it's not a bad thing to try and聽see how your navigation would look like with fewer pages. Unfortunately one way that Site Managers try to do this is by disabling their menu items.聽
Don't disable menu items
It may seem harmless at first, but disabling menu items can make your site structure unstable. This often results聽in a聽menu or two going missing.
So if you're ever tempted to disable a menu item, don't even. Unless聽you're okay with聽visitors suddenly losing access to pages on your site.
But my menu is HUGE
A large, ungainly menu is usually a sign of content management聽gone awry, and that the聽time is nigh for a content audit.
Go to your Workbench.聽Look at all the Basic Pages as a start, then ask yourself:
- Are they聽up to date?
- Are they necessary?
If they're not up to date, edit. If they're not necessary, delete.
If that's too harsh, you can thank them for their service before letting them go gently into the bin.
Do this for all content types and you'll be surprised at how suddenly more manageable your content (and subsequently, your menu) becomes.
If the fear of losing content is overwhelming, you can use archiving聽tools to make static copies of your site. Otherwise, you can request a staging site.
Basic pages are not the ONLY type of content
Another thing you should consider is transferring content from Basic Pages to other types that do not yield聽menu items by default.
But my menu is still large and聽ungainly
If you're still bedevilled by large menus that make any kind of organization聽impossible, you can聽choose to聽unpublish pages associated with extraneous聽menu items.聽
Click on the MODERATE tab and unpublish the latest or published revision (the one in green) - the page will then disappear from your menu.
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