HJS Mega Menu

A mega menu for PrestaShop 9 that actually replaces your default menu, not just adds to it

HJS Mega Menu answers the exact, verified complaint left against the category's leading competitor on addons.prestashop.com (1,174 reviews, 4.4/5): "There's no setting in Prestashop to remove the classic menu. Both menus have to be visible at the same time." This module has that setting, and it genuinely works.

What the merchant gets

• ONE navigation bar, not two - switch the setting on and your shop's own category menu stops being drawn at all, not hidden with CSS but genuinely not rendered, so there are no duplicate links for a search engine to index. Switch it off, disable the module or uninstall it, and your original menu comes back at the position it was at. Proven both in CI (a differential test) and live on a real PrestaShop 9 store.
• A working menu the moment you install it - the module reads your category tree during install and builds a complete multi-column menu from it, empty categories left out.
• Minutes to rearrange - drag a row to move it, drop it onto another to nest it, or use the four keyboard-reachable arrow buttons instead.
• Nothing to undo - the module writes down exactly what it changed and restores it exactly on switch-off, disable or uninstall. Your shop can never be left without navigation.
• No override, no core file edited, no other module's files touched - two tables of its own and nothing else.

What the customer gets

• One clear navigation bar instead of two stacked ones.
• Wide dropdown panels showing a whole department at once, instead of a narrow list to hover down.
• A menu that works on a phone - a single button below 992px, with the full item tree present and correctly structured.
• Keyboard and screen-reader friendly - panels open on focus as well as hover, with a configurable accessible name.

Key features

• Replaces PrestaShop's default category menu with one setting, restored exactly on switch-off, disable or uninstall.
• Generates a complete menu from your category tree at install - depth and column count configurable.
• Drag-and-drop builder with four keyboard-reachable move buttons.
• Seven item types: category, CMS page, brand, supplier, custom link, heading, promo text.
• Multilingual and multistore - a label per language, a separate menu per shop.
• Dropdown panels of 1 to 6 columns, with an optional image and promo text.
• Responsive below 992px, with Escape-to-close.
• Automatic tidy-up when a linked category, page, brand or supplier is deleted.
• A status page that reports what has actually been done, with a one-press restore.
• Hooks only - no override anywhere in the module.

What this version does not do

Stated so expectations are right before purchase.

• No customer-group restrictions on menu items and no scheduling in this release.
• The literal mouse-drag gesture, a second live language, a multi-shop install and a mobile visual screenshot were not separately exercised on the live test pass - the underlying mechanisms are proven by other means (CI, the keyboard-arrow equivalent, the accessibility tree). See the full test report for detail.

Compatibility

• PrestaShop 9.0 and above - built, CI-tested and live-tested on 9.1.5. Also installs on PrestaShop 8.0+, but 8.x is declared, not tested.
• PHP 8.1 minimum - linted on 8.1, 8.3 and 8.4.
• Live-tested on Hummingbird (PrestaShop 9's default theme) only. Other module-based themes are expected to work but are untested.

Support

HJS Apps - https://hjsapps24.store

Tags: mega menu, top menu, navigation, drag and drop menu, replace default menu, multi column dropdown, category menu, responsive menu, horizontal menu, menu builder