# Edit the menu

Rename a menu item without touching the page title, hide pages from the menu, and keep the order sane.

For: Everyone editing a site

## Menu names and page titles are separate

A page has a title, shown in search results and the browser tab, and a name in the menu, which is often shorter. "Our services and prices" might be the title; the menu just says "Services".

With nothing selected on a page, the inspector shows Page details: Title, Address, Name in the menu and the Show in the menu switch. Those four fields cover how the page is presented everywhere.

Walkthrough: Page details: title, address and menu name (Page settings in the inspector)

1. **The title**: For search results and the browser tab. It can be a full sentence about the page.
2. **The address**: The home page has the empty address and cannot be renamed. Everything else is lower-case with hyphens.
3. **The menu name**: Often shorter: "Our services and prices" in search, simply "Services" in the menu.

1. Select nothing on the page to show the page details.
2. Change Name in the menu and check the header updates.

## Showing and hiding

A page out of the menu is not hidden from the world: anyone with the address still sees it. That is deliberate, and useful for offer pages, thank-you pages and anything reached by a link rather than the menu.

If a page should genuinely stay out of search engines too, that is the Hide from search engines switch on the same page, under Search engines.

Walkthrough: Taking a page out of the menu, and out of search (Page settings in the inspector, then Search settings for one page)

1. **Show in the menu**: Off, and the page keeps working at its address for anyone with the link, just unlisted.
2. **The name stays ready**: Keep a sensible menu name on the page; switching it back on should not need a new decision.
3. **Out of search as well**: Hiding from search engines is the stronger switch, on the page's Search engines section.

Note: A page with no menu entry and search hiding is effectively private by obscurity, which is not the same as private. Use staging for anything confidential.

## Can the menu have a page that does not exist yet?

No. The menu is built from real pages, so create the page first, even empty, then it appears.

## Related guides

- [Create and organise pages](/help/pages-and-menu/create-and-organise-pages)
- [Set up the 404 page](/help/pages-and-menu/set-up-the-404-page)
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