# Customizing the Menu

You are allowed to add your custom links to the main navigation. To do so, you can access `SolidusAdmin::Config.menu_items` in an initializer:

```ruby
# config/initializers/solidus_admin.rb
SolidusAdmin::Config.menu_items << {
  key: :my_custom_link,
  route: :my_custom_link_path,
  icon: "24-hours-fill",
  position: 80
}
```

- The key you provide will be used to translate the link's label under the
`solidus_admin.menu_item.#{key}` key.
- Icon needs to be an icon name from [Remixicon](https://remixicon.com/).
- Position tells Solidus where to place the link in the main navigation. The
 default items are placed with 10 points of difference between them.

For nested links, you can provide a `children:` option with an array of hashes:

```ruby
# config/initializers/solidus_admin.rb
SolidusAdmin::Config.configure do |config|
  config.menu_items << {
    key: :my_custom_link,
    route: :my_custom_link_path,
    icon: "24-hours-fill",
    position: 80,
    children: [
      {
        key: :my_custom_nested_link,
        route: :my_custom_nested_link_path,
        position: 80
      }
    ]
  }
end
```

Your custom link will be rendered in the active state when its base path (i.e, the path without the query string) matches the one for the current url.