Add a new menu item to the Admin Menu in Optimizely CMS
Create a new Controller called CustomMenuController and decorate with [Authorize(Roles ="CMSAdmins")] so that it will be accessed by admins only
namespace AdminMenu.Controllers
{
[Route("episerver/CustomMenu")]
[Authorize(Roles ="CMSAdmins")]
public class CustomMenuController : Controller
{
[HttpGet("")]
public IActionResult Index()
{
return View("~/Views/CustomMenu /Index.cshtml");
}
}
}
Create a view under Views/CustomMenu/Index.cshtml for the controller
@{
Layout = null;
}
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Custom Menu</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/Util/images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.0/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
@Html.AntiForgeryToken()
@Html.Raw(Html.CreatePlatformNavigationMenu())
<div class="margin-100">
<div class="container mt-5">
<h1>This is a custom menu example</h1>
<p>Custom menu implementation</p>
</div>
</div>
<required-client-resources area="Footer" />
</body>
</html>Create a new class called MenuItem that inherits IMenuProvider
namespace FEO.CMS.Global.Business.MenuProviders
{
[MenuProvider]
public class CustomMenuProvider : IMenuProvider
{
public IEnumerable<MenuItem> GetMenuItems()
{
var menuItems = new List<MenuItem>();
menuItems.Add(new UrlMenuItem("Custom Admin Menu",
"/global/cms/CustomAdminMenu",
"/EPiServer/CustomMenu")
{
SortIndex = SortIndex.First + 25,
AuthorizationPolicy = CmsPolicyNames.CmsAdmin
});
return menuItems;
}
}
}Thats all, run the application and you can find a new menu item under the admin menu
May 18, 2025
Good working example
Can you extend this example for any real world usecase like triggering sitemap generation or robots.txt implementation
Sure I will create a new article with real world implementation for robots.txt
There is a really good robots solution already out there called Stott Robots Handler. See: https://github.com/GeekInTheNorth/Stott.Optimizely.RobotsHandler
This features:
What's really good is that it's maintained by an Optimizely MVP.
FYI: I may be incredibly biased :)
Thanks Mark,
I really appreciate your effort in taking time and providing good articles.
Sunil