diff --git a/playground/astro.config.mjs b/playground/astro.config.mjs
index 2d4fa3b..2aaa7e9 100644
--- a/playground/astro.config.mjs
+++ b/playground/astro.config.mjs
@@ -111,6 +111,28 @@ export default defineConfig({
           style: 'font-size:1.25rem; margin: 0 -0.125rem;',
         },
       }],
+      subNavBar: [
+        {
+          label: 'Blog',
+          slug: 'posts',
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Talks',
+          slug: 'talks',
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Podcasts',
+          slug: 'podcasts',
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Streams',
+          slug: 'streams',
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Notes',
+          slug: 'notes',
+        },
+      ],
     }),
   ],
 })
diff --git a/src/components/SubNav.astro b/src/components/SubNav.astro
index 55c7947..5d5913e 100644
--- a/src/components/SubNav.astro
+++ b/src/components/SubNav.astro
@@ -1,20 +1,26 @@
 ---
-const inactiveStyle = 'opacity-20 hover:opacity-50'
-const activeStyle = 'opacity-100 underline'
+import { getSubNavbarFromConfig } from '../utils/navigation'
+import { slugToLocaleData, urlToSlug } from '../utils/slugs'
+import config from 'virtual:vitesse/user-config'
 
-const currentPath = Astro.url.pathname
+const url = Astro.url
+const slug = urlToSlug(url)
+const localeData = slugToLocaleData(slug)
+const subNavBar = getSubNavbarFromConfig(config.subNavBar, url.pathname, localeData.locale)
 ---
 
 <div class="prose m-auto mb-8 select-none animate-none! op100!">
   <div mb-0 flex="~ col gap-1 sm:row sm:gap-3 wrap" text-3xl>
-    <a href="/posts" class:list={['!border-none', currentPath === '/posts' ? activeStyle : inactiveStyle]}> Blog </a>
-    <a href="/talks" class:list={['!border-none', currentPath === '/talks' ? activeStyle : inactiveStyle]}> Talks </a>
-    <a href="/podcasts" class:list={['!border-none', currentPath === '/podcasts' ? activeStyle : inactiveStyle]}>
-      Podcasts
-    </a>
-    <a href="/streams" class:list={['!border-none', currentPath === '/streams' ? activeStyle : inactiveStyle]}>
-      Streams
-    </a>
-    <a href="/notes" class:list={['!border-none', currentPath === '/notes' ? activeStyle : inactiveStyle]}> Notes </a>
+    {
+      subNavBar.map((subNavLink) => (
+        <a
+          href={subNavLink.href}
+          class:list={['!border-none', subNavLink.isCurrent ? 'opacity-100 underline' : 'opacity-20 hover:opacity-50']}
+          {...subNavLink.attrs}
+        >
+          {subNavLink.label}
+        </a>
+      ))
+    }
   </div>
 </div>
diff --git a/src/schemas/navbar.ts b/src/schemas/navbar.ts
index 9d3f256..dd236d6 100644
--- a/src/schemas/navbar.ts
+++ b/src/schemas/navbar.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ const NavBarBaseSchema = z.object({
   label: z.string(),
   /** Translations of the `label` for each supported language. */
   translations: z.record(z.string()).default({}),
+})
+
+const NavBarWithIconSchema = NavBarBaseSchema.extend({
   icon: z.string().optional(),
   hideLabel: z.boolean().default(false),
   labelClass: z.string().optional().default(''),
@@ -24,7 +27,7 @@ export type LinkHTMLAttributes = z.infer<typeof linkHTMLAttributesSchema>
 
 export const NavBarLinkItemHTMLAttributesSchema = (): z.ZodDefault<typeof linkHTMLAttributesSchema> => linkHTMLAttributesSchema.default({})
 
-const NavBarLinkItemSchema = NavBarBaseSchema.extend({
+const NavBarLinkItemSchema = NavBarWithIconSchema.extend({
   /** The link to this item’s content. Can be a relative link to local files or the full URL of an external page. */
   link: z.string(),
   /** HTML attributes to add to the link item. */
@@ -32,7 +35,7 @@ const NavBarLinkItemSchema = NavBarBaseSchema.extend({
 }).strict()
 export type SidebarLinkItem = z.infer<typeof NavBarLinkItemSchema>
 
-const InternalNavBarLinkItemSchema = NavBarBaseSchema.partial({ label: true }).extend({
+const InternalNavBarLinkItemSchema = NavBarWithIconSchema.extend({
   /** The link to this item’s content. Must be a slug of a Content Collection entry. */
   slug: z.string(),
   /** HTML attributes to add to the link item. */
@@ -49,3 +52,11 @@ export const NavBarItemSchema = z.union([
   InternalNavBarLinkItemShorthandSchema,
 ])
 export type NavBarItem = z.infer<typeof NavBarItemSchema>
+
+export const SubNavBarItemSchema = NavBarBaseSchema.extend({
+  /** The link to this item’s content. Must be a slug of a Content Collection entry. */
+  slug: z.string(),
+  /** HTML attributes to add to the link item. */
+  attrs: NavBarLinkItemHTMLAttributesSchema(),
+})
+export type SubNavBarItem = z.infer<typeof SubNavBarItemSchema>
diff --git a/src/utils/navigation.ts b/src/utils/navigation.ts
index c8e142c..ba10cc6 100644
--- a/src/utils/navigation.ts
+++ b/src/utils/navigation.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import type {
   LinkHTMLAttributes,
   NavBarItem,
   SidebarLinkItem,
+  SubNavBarItem,
 } from '../schemas/navbar'
 import type { VitesseConfig } from './user-config'
 
@@ -176,3 +177,84 @@ export function getNavbarFromConfig(
 export function getNavBar(pathname: string, locale: string | undefined): NavBarEntry[] {
   return getNavbarFromConfig(config.navBar, pathname, locale)
 }
+
+export type SubNavBarEntry = Pick<Link, 'label' | 'href' | 'isCurrent' | 'attrs'>
+
+export type SubNavBarLink = SubNavBarEntry
+
+function makeSubNavLink({
+  isCurrent = false,
+  attrs = {},
+  ...opts
+}: {
+  label: string
+  href: string
+  isCurrent?: boolean
+  attrs?: LinkHTMLAttributes | undefined
+}): SubNavBarLink {
+  return { ...opts, isCurrent, attrs }
+}
+
+function makeSubNavBarLink({ currentPathname, href, label, attrs }: {
+  href: string
+  label: string
+  currentPathname: string
+  attrs?: LinkHTMLAttributes
+}): SubNavBarLink {
+  if (!isAbsolute(href)) {
+    href = formatPath(href)
+  }
+  const isCurrent = pathsMatch(encodeURI(href), currentPathname)
+  return makeSubNavLink({ label, href, isCurrent, attrs })
+}
+
+function linkFromInternalSubNavBarLinkItem(
+  item: SubNavBarItem,
+  locale: string | undefined,
+  currentPathname: string,
+): SubNavBarLink {
+  // Astro passes root `index.[md|mdx]` entries with a slug of `index`
+  const slug = item.slug === 'index' ? '' : item.slug
+  const localizedSlug = locale ? (slug ? `${locale}/${slug}` : locale) : slug
+  const entry = routes.find(entry => localizedSlug === entry.slug)
+  if (!entry) {
+    const hasExternalSlashes = item.slug.at(0) === '/' || item.slug.at(-1) === '/'
+    if (hasExternalSlashes) {
+      throw new AstroError(
+        `The slug \`"${item.slug}"\` specified in the Vitesse navBar config must not start or end with a slash.`,
+        `Please try updating \`"${item.slug}"\` to \`"${stripLeadingAndTrailingSlashes(item.slug)}"\`.`,
+      )
+    }
+    else {
+      throw new AstroError(
+        `The slug \`"${item.slug}"\` specified in the Vitesse navBar config does not exist.`,
+        'Update the Vitesse config to reference a valid entry slug in the docs content collection.\n'
+        + 'Learn more about Astro content collection slugs at https://docs.astro.build/en/reference/api-reference/#getentry',
+      )
+    }
+  }
+  const label
+    = pickLang(item.translations, localeToLang(locale)) || item.label || entry.entry.data.title
+  return makeSubNavBarLink({
+    href: entry.slug,
+    label,
+    currentPathname,
+    attrs: item.attrs,
+  })
+}
+
+function configItemToEntrySubNavBar(
+  item: SubNavBarItem,
+  currentPathname: string,
+  locale: string | undefined,
+): SubNavBarEntry {
+  return linkFromInternalSubNavBarLinkItem(item, locale, currentPathname)
+}
+
+export function getSubNavbarFromConfig(subNavBarConfig: VitesseConfig['subNavBar'], pathname: string, locale: string | undefined): SubNavBarEntry[] {
+  if (!subNavBarConfig) {
+    return []
+  }
+
+  return subNavBarConfig.map(subNavBar => configItemToEntrySubNavBar(subNavBar, pathname, locale))
+}
diff --git a/src/utils/user-config.ts b/src/utils/user-config.ts
index f9df09a..a3a7fd6 100644
--- a/src/utils/user-config.ts
+++ b/src/utils/user-config.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { ComponentConfigSchema } from '../schemas/components'
 import { FaviconSchema } from '../schemas/favicon'
 import { HeadConfigSchema } from '../schemas/head'
 import { LogoConfigSchema } from '../schemas/logo'
-import { NavBarItemSchema } from '../schemas/navbar'
+import { NavBarItemSchema, SubNavBarItemSchema } from '../schemas/navbar'
 import { TitleConfigSchema, TitleTransformConfigSchema } from '../schemas/site-title'
 import { SocialLinksSchema } from '../schemas/social'
 import { BuiltInDefaultLocale } from './i18n'
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ const UserConfigSchema = z.object({
 
   /** Configure your site’s sidebar navigation items. */
   navBar: NavBarItemSchema.array().optional(),
+  subNavBar: SubNavBarItemSchema.array().optional(),
 })
 
 export const VitesseConfigSchema = UserConfigSchema.strict()