Creating a non-clickable dropdown menu helps streamline your site navigation and avoids the need for unnecessary landing pages. Your visitors will see the parent page in the main menu, but it won’t be clickable, with only the dropdown subpages being clickable.
Follow these simple steps to set it up:
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Log in to your Rocketspark Dashboard.
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In the left-hand menu, click Manage Pages.
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If you have not already, click "Add a dropdown menu" at the top of manage pages and choose a page you want the dropdown to sit under (add a new page if the page does not yet exist).
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Add pages to this dropdown to make them sub-pages.
Sub-pages must be set to Online for them to appear in the dropdown menu. You can view the eye icon next to the page to see if the page is set online or offline.
- Choose to make the parent page of the dropdown not a clickable link. Toggle the button "is a clickable link" (grey means this page is non-clickable, green means this is a clickable link).
- Save your changes.
Note: If you have made a parent nav non-clickable and then further delete all sub-pages in the dropdown, the parent nav will automatically become a clickable link.
What About Redirects and Google?
The non-clickable menu page will automatically redirect to the first sub page in the dropdown.
If your parent menu page was previously a normal page (i.e., clickable) and had been indexed by Google or linked to elsewhere:
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You won’t get a 404 error when someone visits that old URL.
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Rocketspark automatically creates a redirect to the first sub-page in the dropdown.
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This ensures any previous links (including those from Google search results, emails, or bookmarks) still work and smoothly take visitors to a live page.
Please contact support@rocketspark.com if you have any questions.