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1. motherbirdbirth
   Member
   Oct 5, 2012, 1:34 AM

   I don't know how best to describe this, so I'll try it this way. I have the following pages:

   Services
   - Service 1
   - Service 2
   - Service 3
   - Service 4

   Each of these five pages is a unique page in my Dashboard, and the 4 services all have "Services" as the parent page. When you go to my blog, you can hover over "Services" and a dropdown menu appears for the four services underneath.

   Here's my question: how do I make it so that someone can hover over "Services" but NOT have it be a clickable link? I don't want anything on the "Services" page - I don't even want it to be a page. I just want it to be the category under which users can access the pages that drop down.

   Is this possible?

   The blog I need help with is motherbirdbirth.com.

2. raincoaster
   Member
   Oct 5, 2012, 3:25 AM

   You make those all Posts, and you make "Service" a category. Then you use a custom menu to put a link to the Service category in your header.

3. justpi
   Member
   Oct 5, 2012, 4:04 AM

   See here:
   http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/
   (under "Other options, special cases and tricks" > "Submenu with non-linking top level tab".)

4. 1tess
   Moderator
   Oct 5, 2012, 4:08 AM

   @ raincoaster:

   No no!

   You make a custom menu with a non-linking top level tab:
   From the whole article about Common mistakes and misconceptions (about custom menus):
   http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

   ❇ Submenu with non-linking top level tab
   A tab that’s just a heading for a submenu, not a link, is created in the Custom Links module: type anything after “http://”, type the name in the Label field, click Add to Menu; once it’s added to the menu, click the arrow to open it, delete everything in the URL field, click Save Menu.
   Note: In some theme this produces a differently looking tab; in that case replace the content of the URL field with a # instead of deleting everything.

   Also here is a link to the wp.com support document about custom menus:
   http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

5. 1tess
   Moderator
   Oct 5, 2012, 4:09 AM

   ~~panos, g'evening…
   My typing is s l o o o w …

6. justpi
   Member
   Oct 5, 2012, 4:23 AM

   ~~

   Would be faster if you cut the frills...

   (And my article isn't about "Common mistakes and misconceptions", it's a thorough guide to custom menus in general!)

7. 1tess
   Moderator
   Oct 5, 2012, 4:31 AM

   :(
   First line quoted:

   A. Common mistakes and misconceptions

   Frills???!!!
   Shrug…
   The links we each gave to the OP are useful.

8. raincoaster
   Member
   Oct 5, 2012, 4:56 AM

   Ah, I didn't read that, thanks.

9. 1tess
   Moderator
   Oct 5, 2012, 5:08 AM

   You are welcome from lil'mzsunshine…

10. 1tess
    Moderator
    Oct 5, 2012, 5:10 AM

    Sorry, it is really something useful to know about and not especially obvious to make happen.

11. justpi
    Member
    Oct 5, 2012, 1:58 PM

    @Tess: By "frills" I meant the bold and the italics and the quotes...

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