How to have a top level navigation item that doesn’t link to a page in Thesis

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www.byobwebsite.com Sometimes you may want the top level menu item of your navigation bar not to link off to anything. This member wanted to be able to hover over the menu item, have the submenu items drop down, but not actually have a page named for the top level menu item. By default the Thesis Navigation Menu doesn’t allow that, however the WordPress 3.0 menus do allow it. In this video I show how to substitute the default Thesis Navigation Menu for a WordPress 3.0 menu and then make one of the top level items link to the current page, no matter what page you happen to be on. Video Transcript I’d like to just jump on to the question we answered Saturday about how to make this tab up here not go any place but stay on the same place and only let the drop down elements go places. And so I demonstrated that here on this website which is www.categories.byobwebsite.com which is a site that I use for demonstrating answers to questions that I’ve given mostly on the DIY themes forum. So we’re just going tocome over here to the WP Admin and log in to this. And the way we do that is by using the WordPress 3.0 menu system. The WordPress 3.0 menu system allowed or is made possible outright in Thesis 1.8 if we’re using a version of Thesis that is not Thesis 1.8 then this is not going to work. But first we’ll start off by coming over here to Thesis site options and under this navigation menu, what we’re going to do is, we’re going to select the menu type. Right now, I have the thesis

One Response to “How to have a top level navigation item that doesn’t link to a page in Thesis”

  1. Mark Volansky says:

    Truly speaking seeing the video tutorial I couldn’t figure out what actually was happening. Could you please simplify it a little bit. It’s really tough to understand if you are new to this subject

    Thanks
    Mark
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