BRAND NEW Feature: How to Add Dropdown Menus to Your Navigation Bar
Substack finally introduced dropdown navigation menus, and this quick 5-minute tutorial shows you exactly how to set them up to organize your publication like a real website.
This post is part of the Unstack Substack Video Vault—a growing library of simple, practical tutorials you can come back to anytime you need to set up, fix, or fine-tune your Substack. Most tutorials are paid subscriber perks, however, this one is absolutely FREE for now!
Substack has officially entered the year 2007 and introduced dropdown menus 😆
Meanwhile, the rest of the blogging internet is over in the corner whispering, “You guys are just getting dropdown menus NOW?”
In fairness, this is actually a pretty useful update. If you’ve been wishing you could make your publication feel more like an actual website and less like a digital junk drawer, this tool helps.
I’m glad Substack finally paid attention because this is one of those small features that makes a publication feel way more polished and easier to navigate for readers.
So I made you a quick 5-minute walkthrough (below) showing exactly how to set it up. And I’m leaving this video vault tutorial FREE for all subscribers.
You’re welcome 😌
If you’re currently panicking because you don’t know how to add links to your navigation bar, here’s a video tutorial to show you how. 😊
How to Customize Your Substack Navigation Bar (Add Links, Tags, Sections & More)
You can actually add all kinds of useful links to your publication navigation including sections, tags, outside websites, YouTube channels, podcasts, shops, resources, and more.
Have you been one of those WISHING you had dropdowns here on Substack? Do you intend to use this feature right away?
By the way, if all of these new features and tutorials look great in theory, but you just can’t be bothered to watch and implement them yourself, I will do it for you!
In case you had no idea that I offer customized Substack support, here is how you can get it! And FUN FACT….a couple of my packages even include a complimentary one-year subscription to this publication!





YAY!!!! I can't stand that we didn't know this, but am so glad that we do now. And my next gripe...when is Substack going to show our extra pages (the entire website content), in the app. So many miss out on so much because of that limitation. The people who only use the app? They don't know what they're missing. Thanks for this, Kristi. xo
I will DEFINITELY be adding drop-down menus to my Substack — it will keep the nav bar so much cleaner.