Before creating Mini-Site pages, it's a best practice to setup the Mini-Site menu.

Navigate to **Structure &gt; Menus &gt; Mini-Site** in the content management system.\
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**Note**: If you need to learn about managing menu links, review the[menu links guide](https://scribehow.com/shared/Adding_a_link_to_the_main_navigation__u0s5qCcySWSftWakCci9Ow)

Each menu link with a **Mini-Site parent link** represents an individual Mini-site. You can build out your Mini-site menu ahead of time with dummy links, or create menu links as you build pages.

**Note:** Adding child links to a Mini-Site parent link will only affect that specific Mini-site menu.

Each menu link with a **Mini-Site parent link** represents an individual mini-site. Adding child links to parent links will only affect that specific site.

Breadcrumb
Home  Administration  Structure  Menus
Edit menu link Add to Default shortcuts
Menu link title
The text to be used for this link in the menu.
Link
The location this menu link points to.
Start typing the title of a piece of content to select it. You can also enter an internal path such as /node/add or an external URL such as http://example.com. Enter <front> to link to the front page. Enter <nolink> to display link text only. Enter <button> to display keyboard-accessible link text only.
Attributes
Enabled
A flag for whether the link should be enabled in menus or hidden.
Description
Shown when hovering over the menu link.
Show as expanded
If selected and this menu link has children, the menu will always appear expanded. This option may be overridden for the entire menu tree when placing a menu block.
Parent link
<Footer-Academic>
-- Footer 1 - Link 1
<User account menu>
-- My account
-- Log out
<Administration>
-- Sub-Branding Block
---- Manage fields
---- Manage form display
---- Manage display
---- Manage permissions
---- Delete
-- Title & Description
---- Manage fields
---- Manage form display
---- Manage display
---- Manage permissions
---- Delete
-- Administration
---- Tools
------ Index
------ Flush all caches
-------- Flush CSS and JavaScript
-------- Flush plugins cache
-------- Flush render cache
-------- Flush routing and links cache
-------- Flush static cache
-------- Flush twig cache
-------- Flush views cache
-------- Rebuild theme registry
------ Run cron
------ Run updates
------ Logout
---- Content
------ Scheduled
------ Add content
-------- Alternative Home
-------- Article
-------- Center/Institute
-------- Chaptered Page
-------- Event
-------- External Content
-------- Feature Article
-------- Landing: Informational
-------- Landing: Marketing
-------- Landing: News
-------- Landing: Secondary
-------- Media Mentions
-------- Mini-Site: Page
-------- Person
-------- Program Type
-------- Search Results
-------- Story Aggregator
-------- Utility Page
------ Costs
------ Files
------ 

Alternatively, you can create menu links from the page editing screen. Remember to set the correct parent link that corresponds to your Mini-site.

**Note:** Your Mini-site landing page (the first page users visit) must always have a **Mini-Site parent link**.

<Mini-Site>
-- CMS User Guide
---- Best Practices
---- Content Syndication
---- File Management
---- Images & Video
---- Menus & Navigation
---- Site Administration
---- Taxonomy
---- Views (Content Lists)
---- WordPress RCCL

The Mini-Site content type offers a limited number of components. Review the list at the [Mini-Site demo page](https://rccldemo.rutgers.edu/mini-site-page).

The [[Sidebar Background Color]] field controls the color of the left-side menu.

Mini-Site entries can be made available as [**listings**](https://rccldemo.rutgers.edu/mini-site-page#listings) by entering a topic, optional summary, and optional promo image on the editing screen under [[Listing]].

The [Mini-Site Listing component](https://rccldemo.rutgers.edu/mini-site-page#listings) highlights Mini-Site content entries based on the topic category ID (taxonomy term). This component displays the entries based on time of creation (newest to oldest).

To filter listings using the Mini-Site Listing component, enter the taxonomy ID in the [[Options &gt; Argument]] field.

Mini-Site taxonomies can be managed at **Structure &gt; Taxonomy &gt; Topic: Mini-Site**. The taxonomy ID is a number in the taxonomy entry's URL (e.g. /taxonomy/term/**10**).

Rutgers

The Mini-Site content type offers compact left-side navigation and a limited number of components. This page template is ideal for use cases requiring compact organization without the need for a separate website.

Using the Mini-Site content type

Mini-Site Navigation

Mini-Site Page Features

Mini-Site Listings