Nested menu items not linking to pages

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  communalroutes · Member · Oct 28, 2014 at 6:17 am

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  Greetings Community,

  I’ve been struggling with this for hours. I believe I’ve followed all the instructions for creating sub-menu items. The links are there, , but they don’t do anything: no finger, and no related page.

  Please help!

  Thanks,
  Michael

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  lastnode · Member · Oct 28, 2014 at 6:24 am

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  Hello! No need to fret! Let’s take a step back and have a look at this. The link tags are there are in your menu for the Projects menu and all its sub items. However they do not currently link to anything.

  However, your pages themselves seem to be setup just fine. For example –

  http://communalroutes.wordpress.com/projects/ works great

  as does http://communalroutes.wordpress.com/projects/north-america/

  Are you creating your menu here by Adding Pages, as mentioned in this part of the Custom Menus guide?

  Menus

  If so, they should link to their category pages without a problem.

  (If you are using Custom Links for this purpose, that’s not necessary, as Adding Pages is much easier to do.)

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  communalroutes · Member · Oct 28, 2014 at 6:30 am

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  Thanks. I had already created the pages when I decided to nest the menu items, so I created custom menu items and linked them. Should I delete the Projects pages and just start over?

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  gizipp · Member · Oct 28, 2014 at 6:36 am

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  Is the sub-menu items is custom menu links? And do you already input the link refers to? I’ve checked your blog and I found :

  <li id="menu-item-56" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-56">Scotland

  The tag is not complete. It doesn’t include ‘href’ so no wonder the link works. It must be something like this :

  <li id="menu-item-56" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-56">Scotland

  My guess is… you already create sub-menu items correctly but you do not input the links/URL refers to when creating custom menu links. If you sure you do correctly, It maybe theme problem.

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  lastnode · Member · Oct 28, 2014 at 6:37 am

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  Actually, it doesn’t matter if you’ve already created the pages. All the pages you have on your blog should show up as options when you try and create menus from them –

  Menus

  Creating a menu item from a page does not recreate that page on your blog. So for example, if you add a sub menu item for North America to your menu, it will not create a duplicate page called North America.

  A little confusing I know, but hope it makes some sense now? Do ask if you have more questions though. Always happy to help! :)

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  communalroutes · Member · Oct 28, 2014 at 6:49 am

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  Got it. Thank you so much.

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  lastnode · Member · Oct 28, 2014 at 6:51 am

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  Not at all. Glad to have helped! :)