Navigation block query

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    donovanmunro97613 · Member ·

    I need help with the navigation blog within my content.
    I add the block then add a name to the menu. When I want to add external links as sub menus then it displays the entire URL.
    How do I mask the URL but only show the name I want to be seen.
    My menu supposed to look like this
    Pick a plan drop down
    Semrush
    Ahrefs
    I need it to look like this
    But when I enter the URL it displays the URL. I want it to say semrush, not semrush.com/pricing
    When they click on it then it must take them to semrush pricing plans.
    Even when I go into the gear icon and add a title to the link, the links stays the URL. It doesn’t only display the title I want.
    When I add internal links then it only displays the title of my link, but with external links it displays the URL, not the title I entered in the block editor.
    Can anyone tell me if it’s possible to do this?
    I want to direct users to an external page but I don’t want it to display the entire URL. Only the title I want.

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  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    For that, build the menu via the standard Menus interface: https://wordpress.com/support/menus/

    In there, you can add more item types than just you pages, like custom links.

    Then, when you add the Navigation block, just select the menu you just created.

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    donovanmunro97613 · Member ·

    Hi Mac.
    So you saying I must create a new menu, add the links to it, then in the navigation block just choose the new menu?

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    Exactly that, yes. :)

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    donovanmunro97613 · Member ·

    That doesn’t work.

    I did that and it only shows like a menu bar.
    This is what I did.

    The menu name should be

    Pick your tool Here drop down
    Semrush
    Ahrefs

    I add a new menu

    Pick your tool Here

    Then add the links semrush and Ahref’s
    Then go to my navigation block and add existing menu
    I choose… Pick your tool Here, then is is how it looks

    Semrush Ahrefs

    Unless I create a category named pick your tool Here….add that to my menu then make the semrush and Ahref’s a drop down within the menu itself….then add existing menu to my navigation block and it should come out right

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    Would you please give us a link to the post or page where you have added the block?

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    donovanmunro97613 · Member ·

    What I said worked.
    I just added my drop down menu name as a category then aligned the links under and right to turn out as a drop down, same way I make my main menu names, and it worked like a charm.
    So when I add my secondary menu with the links in the navigation block then all I see is my category name as a drop down then my links within the drop down.

    Problem solved. Thank you

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