Tutorial Part 3: Navbar & Footer¶
Let’s begin to work on our navigation and footer setup.
Customizing the navigation¶
The general layout of your navbar can be found in the Settings > CRX Settings section of the Wagtail Admin. We previously discussed choosing a dark or light navbar and adding Bootstrap classes, but you can also add/remove the Search bar, set it to fixed (stays at the top even when you scroll) or full-width, decide on which screen size it will collapse into a menu hamburger, and whether to center the logo at the top or keep it toward the left-hand side.
Note
In Layout, we added the Bootstrap background color class bg-warning
but you can choose whatever
you like for your site. We also decided to remove the Search Bar from the Navbar by de-selecting the
option to show the Search Bar. It’s recommended to review all of the available settings, and go ahead
and play around with them!
Create your menus¶
Your navbar will have links to your other pages or external content that you want to share. To build your menu, go to Snippets > Navigation Bars.
In the top right-hand corner is a button that says Add Navigation Bar. Click on this button to start! (Alternatively, you can also click on the link that says “Why not add one?”)
Name your navbar. In this case, this will be our main navigation bar so we have simply named it Main Nav.
There are three types of links that you can add to your navbar. Let’s briefly describe each one:
Page link with sub-links - Add links to pages from within your website. Add sub-links for dropdown items.
External link with sub-links - Add external links from other websites to your site, as well as sub-links.
Document link with sub-links - Add document links with sub-links to your navbar.
We don’t have any other pages set up yet, but we can still create our menu. For now, we will just link to the Home page and update it once we have more pages.
Continue to add as many navbar items as you want for your website. You can always edit your menu and add more top-level items or dropdowns as you make more pages. We are going to start with our three most important ones for our sweets shop!
Site Navbars Settings¶
After you create your navbar, go to Settings > CRX Settings and scroll down to Site Navbars. Click on the plus sign to select your new navbar and add it to your site. The Save.
Customizing the Footer¶
Now, let’s head down to work on the footer, which is another menu of links. You can add more links in the footer that maybe won’t belong in the main navigation but are still important. Go to Snippets > Footers to begin working on the footer. In the top right-hand corner is a button that says Add Footer. Click on this button to start! (Alternatively, you can also click on the link that says “Why not add one?”)
Give your footer a name. We choose Main Footer since this will be the main footer for our site.
Let’s get some practice with Responsive Grid Rows and Columns! We want to make a 4-column footer with our logo in the first column, our sub-page links in the second column, our main page links in the third column, and contact information in the fourth column. Don’t worry - This is actually going to be easy!
Note
To keep up with our color scheme, we have also added a Bootstrap background color class to the Attributes section. See Bootstrap color utilities.
To set up our 4-column footer, choose Responsive Grid Row from the layout choices at the bottom. Now click on Add Column. You can specify the column size in the dropdown that says Column size. Since we want to have four evenly sized columns, we are going to choose a 1/4 Column size.
Note
Bootstrap uses a 12-column grid, and our footer is going to span the entire 12 columns. To figure out how to size our columns, we do some math. We are slicing up the 12-column grid into fourths to have four columns, so our columns need to be 1/4 each. Read more about Bootstrap grids and columns here: Bootstrap Grid.
From within the Responsive Grid Row block, keep selecting the + sign below your Column until you have all of the columns that you need. Then remember to make sure to choose the size of the column if you have a particular layout in mind. Otherwise, it will automatically size on its own.
Add Content to the Footer¶
Now that we have our layout, let’s begin adding content! You see that there are several different choices for content available within the column block.
1. We’re going to choose the Image Link block in the first column so that we can add our logo and link to the Home page.
2. In the second through fourth columns, we are going to choose the Text block and list the Pages that we want to link to and our contact information. You can add links in the text block by highlighting the text and selecting the chain-link icon, then choosing which page or external link you want. See our example below:
Once you’re happy with your Footer, hit Save. Let’s see what it looks like!
Site Footers Settings¶
After you create your footer, go to Settings > CRX Settings and scroll down to Site Footers. Click on the plus sign to select your new footer and add it to your site. The Save.