Link to a menu item
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I am using WordPress.com, Premium, so please don’t tell me to use a plug-in.
I am a novice user so am not comfortable working with the CSS at this stage. So is there a workaround for this problem?
I want to be able to share links to a place in the drop down menu rather than to a post, particularly to Custom Links I have added to the menu.
As a workaround I have put in dummy posts to link to, but that still takes me to the post, not the right spot in the menu. I would need to add the sub menu items in the post as well as on the menu for the link to be useful, and I can see no built in attractive solution to adding links into the body of a post. Plain text seems to be the only option.
What workaround is there to achieve the objective within Premium functionality?
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Hi,
I want to be able to share links to a place in the drop down menu rather than to a post, particularly to Custom Links I have added to the menu.
I’m not sure I understand correctly. Menu items are links. So you want to share links to links? Why not share links to the destination URLs directly?
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Do you mean something like an anchor link (see the Page Jumps support page) that when clicked on in one location opens the menu and somehow indicates a specific link in the menu?
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So you want to share links to links? Why not share links to the destination URLs directly?
I want to show a set of links, not just one link. So it is similar to a menu of links. I want to jump someone to the parent heading, for example, Sustainable Housing Products, so that the web pages listed under that are visible.
If I just jump them to the post that I have currently placed at https://housing-alternatives.com/sustainable-housing-products/, they go to the post and have no idea where that item is on the menu. I want them to know where it is on the menu.
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Do you mean something like an anchor link (see the Page Jumps support page) that when clicked on in one location opens the menu and somehow indicates a specific link in the menu?
Maybe. That is a useful function that I did not know about, so thankyou, but rather than jump to locations within or between posts, I want to be able to give someone an URL that takes them to a menu item not a page/post.
When I create a Custom Link to place an item on the menu I just put # in the first field. Is there something else I can put into the Custom Link to give it an URL of it’s own?
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You’re welcome. :)
I want to jump someone to the parent heading, for example, Sustainable Housing Products, so that the web pages listed under that are visible.
Yes, that’s understood. I don’t know if that’s possible.
Is there something else I can put into the Custom Link to give it an URL of it’s own?
I don’t think so, but I’ll call for staff attention. Staff will respond here.
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I want them to know where it is on the menu.
There is no way to do this, no. The page that is currently loaded will be highlighted in the menu, but if it’s on a submenu, the parent item won’t be highlighted as well, and it’s not possible to automatically expand the menu to show a highlighted link on a submenu.
What might work for you is a theme that uses breadcrumbs instead. That means at the top of the page it will show the hierarchy of your site to get to that page, e.g.
Our projects > Research Questionnaire > What are your strategies
This will require you to edit your pages to indicate parent pages in the Page Attributes section of the editor, and will change the permalinks of your pages to also show the hierarchy.
You can see an example of this in action on my site, here:
Note the breadcrumb showing the hierarchy just above the page title, and you’ll see the same hierarchy reflected in the page URL.
You can find all the themes that support breadcrumbs here:
https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/breadcrumb-navigation/
I also want to point out that as a Premium Plan owner you have access to live chat support and direct email support. You don’t need to post in the forums for an answer. You can contact us using those channels at any time here:
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