How to show ONLY top-level pages in the menu?

  • When I create a “Tennis” page as a child of a “Sport” page, “TENNIS” appears next to “SPORT” in the main menu. I absolutely do not want this, because there are so many sports pages under the parent “Sport” page that the main menu would be very cluttered.

    On the “Sport” page there are links to the numerous sports child pages, so I don’t want them to be displayed on the main menu as well.

    I want only the “Home” page and the top-level pages to be displayed as links in the main menu. I can’t see any option in the WordPress interface to do this. How can it be done, please?

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  • When editing the Tennis page and other child pages, on the right hand side under page attributes select sport as is parent page.

    I’m guessing you’re not using custom menus.

    See the “depth” option on this page. setting depth to 1 will restrict you menu to top level pages only.

    Thread Starter abacusdata

    (@abacusdata)

    Thanks for the replies, pals.

    ironfenix, I did exactly that when I created the Tennis page. I was surprised, then, to see it displayed in the main menu. That’s what prompted me to seek help. If, indeed, this action should suppress the Tennis menu item, it’s just not happening. Could the choice of theme have something to do with it? I’d have thought that it’d be a global WordPress rule, unaffected by a theme. I may be wrong there. I’m using the German Newspaper 1.2.33 theme.

    dfunkydog, no, I’m not using Custom menus, because the description says that the menu would appear in the side bar. I want it where it is now, i.e., at the top.
    “The current theme does not natively support menus, but you can use the “Custom Menu” widget to add any menus you create here to the theme’s sidebar.”

    I’ll look into your “depth” suggestion and tell you how I got on.

    Thread Starter abacusdata

    (@abacusdata)

    Setting ‘depth’ to “1” instead of the default “-1” did the trick. Genius! Thanks again.

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