Link to Static Page (megamenu instead of category page)

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Hi there!

I love the way megamenu looks with post categories, but I don’t like the fact that when you click on the name of the category on the left side of a megamenu, it takes you to an empty page with just the posts on that category. I’ve made nice custom pages that are much better than simply a collection of the posts in that category, and I would like to link to those. Is this possible with custom coding? If so, where?

http://httvus.net/en/ –> the “original shows” menu item at the top, when you click on the category of the show, I want it to go to the static description page for that show.

Thanks for your help!

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Hello jorbified.

If you want to modify a sub-menu, you can link it to whatever you want with the custom link widget: http://screencast.com/t/y6rLoyVr4z
If you want to change the links in the mega-menu to static pages, you will have to modify the core files of the theme here: http://screencast.com/t/7IiQqadNWq

Thanks!

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Thanks for your prompt reply Bogdan!

For the sake of clarity, I want to change these links on the side to static information pages, while keeping the video content as it is (generated automatically from post categories): http://www.screencast.com/t/MIyGRNhy2iC

Not the links to the videos themselves. Is that the line you pointed towards, or is the line a few above which also generates links?

Thanks!

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Hello,

I understood the request. On the same line I pointed out, the link is generated automatic for all subcategories. http://screencast.com/t/iIlQXzgRc8
You need to change that function with your own custom one so it can generate a link to your pages.
You will need a bit of coding know-how to get this done because it will be no easy task. If not, you can hire a freelancer to do it for you, as we cannot offer custom work. Sorry!
I hope this points you in the right direction.

Thank you!

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Appreciate your answer! I have one small question, but if it’s too specific please ignore this message. If I know the proper variable, I can do it myself. I know that $td_category->catID is the cat number (ie 62), and that get_category_link returns the full link (ie http://httvus.net/en/category/episodes/crepisodes/), but in $td_category, is there a value for just the last part of the link, in this case, just “crepisodes”? If I have that, it would be very easy for me to generate the proper static links.

Really appreciate your help!
Ross

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Hi,

You could use try one of it’s parameters, use print_r($td_category); to find the contents of this object – http://screencast.com/t/uWn7dnK3kPzMhttp://screencast.com/t/9UkpQsG0pp

 print_r($td_category);
 echo "<br /><br />";

Once you’re done remove or comment the print_r and the echo.

Thank you!

  • This reply was modified 10 years by Emil G.
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Thanks Emil, I was able to get it to work perfectly! Appreciate the help guys 🙂

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Ok, so now I’ve fixed the first issue, but it’s not yet fixed on mobile. Where’s the code I need located to do the same fix I applied for mobile?

Thanks!

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Hi,

Here you can change it for mobile menu – http://screencast.com/t/IoqxNmyLeOG

Thanks!

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Can you please help. I’m not sure what code I need to replace to redirect the category within the Megamenu to a static page. My static page is http://biz190.inmotionhosting.com/~segund7/mucho-gusto/.

This is what i got when I ran the print code.

WP_Term Object ( [term_id] => 45 [name] => Mucho Gusto [slug] => mucho-gusto [term_group] => 0 [term_taxonomy_id] => 45 [taxonomy] => category [description] => On each category you can set a Category template style, a Top post style (grids) and a module type for article listing. Also each top post style (grids) have 5 different look style. You can mix them to create a beautiful and unique category page. [parent] => 44 [count] => 11 [filter] => raw [cat_ID] => 45 [category_count] => 11 [category_description] => On each category you can set a Category template style, a Top post style (grids) and a module type for article listing. Also each top post style (grids) have 5 different look style. You can mix them to create a beautiful and unique category page. [cat_name] => Mucho Gusto [category_nicename] => mucho-gusto [category_parent] => 44 )

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Hello marcop,

Please notice that all the above explanations are only for advanced users. If you are not aware of the steps in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to helps you because we cannot provide customization services at the moment, sorry! Another possibility for you would be to try to make a 301 redirect from WordPress, according to this documentation, here -> http://www.inboundnow.com/how-to-properly-set-up-wordpress-301-redirects/

Thank you for your understanding!

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