Title: Menu placeholders
Last modified: April 24, 2020

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# Menu placeholders

 *  [grabro384](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grabro384/)
 * (@grabro384)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-placeholders/)
 * Hi
 * I have created a menu with various items on it and these items are pages. Some
   of the main items are just place holders for sub-menu items. In this case the
   main parent item should not do anything except highlight the sub-menu items. 
   It should NOT open a page. So how do I arrange for this to occur?
 * Thanks for being there and helping.
 * grabro384
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmenu-placeholders%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Matias Mann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/developress/)
 * (@developress)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-placeholders/#post-12727509)
 * For the main placeholder item you can create a Custom Link Menu item and in the
   url put a #.
 * See screenshot: [https://snipboard.io/kwjRph.jpg](https://snipboard.io/kwjRph.jpg)
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-placeholders/#post-12727512)
 * Use a “custom link” and put in `#` as the link content.
 *  Thread Starter [grabro384](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grabro384/)
 * (@grabro384)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-placeholders/#post-12730178)
 * Matias & Steve
 * Thanks for you help although I am still having difficulty. Matias sent me a screen
   shot which appears to show the menu structure and the ability to highlight/expand
   a specific parent item to add a custom link. I don’t appear to be able to do 
   that.
    On my screen there is column listing pages,posts, custom link and categories.
   Expanding the Custom link item gives me a URL box https:// and another box Link
   Text. I don’t appear to be able to relate this to any specific menu item.
 * The menu structure of all the items is in another column. Expanding any parent
   item does not give access to a custom link. Navigation label is the only additional
   item.
 * I hope you are able to understand this,a screen shot would be better but I cannot
   do that yet either.
 * grabro384
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-placeholders/#post-12730320)
 * Overtype “[https://&#8221](https://&#8221); with “#” and add the menu item. See
   [https://i.imgur.com/rrZwKAt.png](https://i.imgur.com/rrZwKAt.png)
 * [[
 *  Thread Starter [grabro384](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grabro384/)
 * (@grabro384)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-placeholders/#post-12732548)
 * Thanks Steve
 * I think I did this before but it created anther item on the menu bar so I thought
   it was wrong. I had to move all my sub-menus to the new items and delete the 
   original items. Anyway it is sorted now so thanks for your help.
 * grabro384
 * PS Steve
    I am going to have a question later about security of my site e.g to
   stop it being hacked can you tell which forum to use when the time comes.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [grabro384](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grabro384/)
 * Last activity: [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-placeholders/#post-12732548)
 * Status: not resolved

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