Title: Site navigation problem
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Site navigation problem

 *  Resolved [kitfreeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kitfreeman/)
 * (@kitfreeman)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-navigation-problem/)
 * Hi
 * I have an academic website, which is divided into sections — Books, Articles,
   Conferences, etc — some of which have several subpages (e.g., for individual 
   books). Where a section has subpages, I used to have a parent page, with links
   to the subpages. However, I decided that these parent pages were redundant, since
   the menu bar displays direct links to the subpages on hovering over the parent
   menu item. So I deleted the parent pages and made the parent menu items not clickable.
   All good!
 * *However*, I now want to add a front page to the site with short introductions
   to each section and clickable icons (for Books, Articles, etc). This will only
   list the main sections, not the individual pages. So here’s my problem: Where
   a section has subpages, what can the section icon link to? For example, what 
   can the Books icon link to? It can’t link to the page for an individual book,
   and there’s no generic books page any more.
 * Does anyone have any bright ideas, please (short of re-instating the redundant
   section pages)? 🙂 It would be really cool if hovering over the Books icon brought
   up a small popup menu of the Books subpages, but I can’t find any way of doing
   that. (To make matters more complicated, the front page is in a table layout 
   created with Tablepress.)
 * I’d be very grateful for any help. Thanks!
    Kit

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 *  [lauraoneill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lauraoneill/)
 * (@lauraoneill)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-navigation-problem/#post-5366286)
 * Have you tried creating a category for each (books, articles, etc)?
    The generic
   book icon, for example, could link to a display of that category.
 * If categories aren’t in place, might be a lot of work to go through and add them
   to everything, depending on how many pages.
 *  Thread Starter [kitfreeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kitfreeman/)
 * (@kitfreeman)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-navigation-problem/#post-5366296)
 * Thanks! That’s a neat solution. I hadn’t thought of it since pages don’t have
   category tags, but I found a plugin that adds them, and your suggestion works
   a treat.
 *  [lauraoneill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lauraoneill/)
 * (@lauraoneill)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-navigation-problem/#post-5366324)
 * Great! Could you mark this as resolved then?
 *  Thread Starter [kitfreeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kitfreeman/)
 * (@kitfreeman)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-navigation-problem/#post-5366330)
 * Sure! Thanks again.

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## Tags

 * [menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/menu/)
 * [navigation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/navigation/)
 * [parent](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/parent/)
 * [subpage](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subpage/)

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-navigation-problem/#post-5366330)
 * Status: resolved

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