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Use # hyperlinks?

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Requested: 1 year and 11 months ago

Hello,

Love your Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin!

Have a question…not sure if this is possible though.

Example:

About (this is the item in question)
– Mission
– History
– Staff

Is there some way to display ‘About’ but not actually be hyperlinked? I’ve got some sites where we’d rather not create pages but just use a placeholder (like ‘#’). If we have to use parent/child relationships for it to appear in sidebar, it’ll just be a blank page – not something we want visitors to view.

We built a bunch of sites using this abandoned plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-menu-widget/. The big difference between that plugin and yours is that it extracts the current location from the actual menu – it doesn’t use parent/child page hierarchy.

Here’s an example site/page using it – https://mosthrs.org/contact-us/. You’ll see there is no page called ‘About’.

Anyways, if you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them. Also, if it’s some functionality that you think can be added, I’d be willing to donate to the endeavor.

Thanks!
Craig

  1. Hi Craig,

    There are 2 approached which may be used to accomplish this:

    1. Use the “Advanced Sidebar Navigation Menu” widget
      1. This will allow you to create your menus using Appearance Menus .
      2. You may add custom items to the menus which link to #.
      3. The downside is your menus will not auto generate and must be created manually.
    2. Use a plugin which lets you change the link of a page
      1. Page Links To is a good one which lets you specify a page link such as #.
      2. You may add placeholder pages to fill in these menu items that you want to link to #.
      3. The only downside is you still have to create the placeholder pages, although they don’ t actually need any content.

    Have a great day!

    Mat Lipe

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