Potential Bug = Click – Menu Item

[Gary]

Hi Guys

I think I have found a bug in GeneratePress Premium.

My clients site was using:

Navigation Drop-down
Click – Menu Item

But I have had to change it to hover as when ‘Click – Menu Item’ is selected the top level page is no longer clickable, when you click it, it simply opens up the dropdown menu.

My client particularly wants the ‘Click – Menu Item’ so it’s a bit of an issue.

Cheers

Gary

[David]

Hi there,

how would that work ? Clicking on a Menu item can only do one thing – its not possible to have it open a sub menu and navigate to a new URL….

Am i missing something ?

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[Gary]

Hi David

Yes mate you are missing something, perhaps I haven’t explained myself very well.

So here is the problem:

• In the customiser under layout I had set the primary navigation to Navigation Drop-down = Click – Menu Item
• When this setting is enabled the top level links do not work. In this case the links I mean are The Fund, The Centre, Charity Shop, Help Us, Community
• Clicking on these links does nothing other than open the sub menu even though the top level links are pages
• In the customiser under layout if I set the primary navigation Navigation Drop-down option to either ‘Hover’ or ‘Click – Arrow’ the top level links The Fund, The Centre, Charity Shop, Help Us, Community work again

I hope that makes sense buddy.

Cheers

Gary

[David]

Nope i think i got that 🙂

What i don’t get is the expected result of clicking a top level menu item that has a submenu. How can clicking a top level menu ( with a sub menu ) perform both actions ? ie. link to its own page as well as open the sub menu.

Or does the client want the submenu to only be available if you’re on the parent page?

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[Gary]

OK can you try clicking on the link in the menu named ‘The Centre’ please mate. You will see it takes you to a page. Once you have done that let me know and I will change the setting for you to see the change.

[David]

Ok – i am on /pear-tree-centre-halesworth page

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[Gary]

Right Mate, I have changed the setting under ‘Navigation Drop-down’ to Navigation Drop-down = Click – Menu Item. Now go back to the home page and try clicking on that link again.

[David]

Thats the intended behaviour of the Click - Menu Item option.
Generally users will add a dead link where the URL is just a # for those top level items. Then put all the links as sub (-sub) menus

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[Gary]

Right OK mate, but this used to work, that is the bit I’m not getting. I have changed it back to hover now.

[Gary]

It also works on the Click – Arrow

[Gary]

Obviously this could be me going mad mate 😉

[David]

Could be both of us 🙂

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[Jennifer]

I’m having this same issue. This functionality worked fine before but is no longer working.

[David]

Hi there,

can you raise a new topic where you can share a link to your site so we can take a look?

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