http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Mon, 20 May 2013 15:48:53 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-placeholder-in-the-menu#post-9794 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:34:36 +0000 TimR 9794@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Just as an update, I used #1, Page links to, and it worked a treat. Thanks for the advice. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-placeholder-in-the-menu#post-9381 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:40:25 +0000 TimR 9381@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Many thanks for that - I shall give it a try</p> <p>(actually its a usability issue that is prompting the query!) </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-placeholder-in-the-menu#post-9320 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:03:54 +0000 hyermish 9320@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>So as a follow-up to this, you can make the "null link" parent page direct to the first subsidiary page using the "Page Links To" plug-in. (As a usability guy, I'm not a fan of "null links" but that is off topic.) </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-placeholder-in-the-menu#post-9319 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:46:18 +0000 hyermish 9319@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I use a combination of plug-ins to basically handle anything that I would want menus to do:</p> <p>1. Page Links To - <a href="http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/page-links-to/" rel="nofollow">http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/page-links-to/</a><br /> This one allows you to create a page for the navigation, and have it point to anything: page, post, category, other site, etc. You still create the page as always, but the plug-in makes a permanent redirect so you don't need to put any content into the page that you make.</p> <p>2. Page Menu Editor - <a href="http://www.stuffbysarah.net/wordpress-plugins/page-menu-editor/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stuffbysarah.net/wordpress-plugins/page-menu-editor/</a><br /> This allows you to edit the text found in the navigation to something short like "About Us" but have the title of the page be "About XYZ Industries, Inc."</p> <p>3. Exclude Pages from Navigation - <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/</a><br /> This allows you to have pages that will not appear in the navigation, good for privacy, terms/conditions, etc. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-placeholder-in-the-menu#post-9318 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:33:47 +0000 TimR 9318@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Evening all,</p> <p>Apologies if this has been covered, but as always its knowing how to phrase the question. I would like to create a 'placeholder' menu item on the drop-down menu. For example, if a parent page has children pages (so that a drop down menu appears), the parent page can easily be missed. I would like to make that parent a 'null link' so it doesn't actually link to anything, it just initiates the menu. I know its possible with a CMS like Joomla, can this be done with the thematic theme? </p>