{"id":1684,"date":"2021-04-02T07:51:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T07:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/solved-navigation-mega-menu-is-missing-when-varnish-cache-is-activated-in-magento-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T04:00:15","slug":"solved-navigation-mega-menu-is-missing-when-varnish-cache-is-activated-in-magento-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/solved-navigation-mega-menu-is-missing-when-varnish-cache-is-activated-in-magento-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Solved: Navigation \/ Mega Menu is Missing When Varnish Cache is Activated in Magento 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Megamenu is a drop-down menu with multi-level expansions that lets you display your website\u2019s full navigation into a single menu. A mega menu allows visitors to reach even the deepest sections of a website through the main menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Megamenu is one of the most beneficial aspects to improve user experience as&nbsp;Jakob Nielsen&nbsp;explains,&nbsp;<em>\u201cBy helping users find more, they\u2019ll help you sell more.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mega menu navigation can disappear in some cases. One of the issues is when you activate the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/install-varnish-cache-on-windows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">varnish cache<\/a>\u00a0in your\u00a0Magento 2\u00a0store; the mega menu may disappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In those cases, use the below solution to show the mega menu in Magento 2 store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solution for Navigation \/ Mega Menu is Missing When Varnish Cache is Activated in Magento 2:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remove the TTL attribute (ttl=\u201d3600\u2033) from&nbsp;<strong>default.xml&nbsp;<\/strong>file located at&nbsp;<strong>vendor\/magento\/module-theme\/view\/frontend\/layout.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">&lt;block class=\"Magento\\Framework\\View\\Element\\Template\" name=\"store.menu\" group=\"navigation-sections\" template=\"Magento_Theme::html\/container.phtml\">\n    &lt;arguments>\n        &lt;argument name=\"title\" translate=\"true\" xsi:type=\"string\">Menu&lt;\/argument>\n    &lt;\/arguments>\n    &lt;block class=\"Magento\\Theme\\Block\\Html\\Topmenu\" name=\"catalog.topnav\" template=\"Magento_Theme::html\/topmenu.phtml\" ttl=\"3600\"   before=\"-\"\/>\n&lt;\/block><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now check in the frontend, Megamenu is now displaying in your store!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s easy, right? You can fixnavigation menu not showing in Magento 2 error, as top navigation menu makes it easy for visitors to navigate through the Magento 2 store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feel free to share the solution with Magento Community via social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megamenu is a drop-down menu with multi-level expansions that lets you display your website\u2019s full navigation into a single menu. A mega menu allows visitors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18152,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/18152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}