Make parent menu item clickable

Hi @phoenixim,

I apologize for the late reply- seems we didn’t receive a notification of your post for some reason.

There isn’t currently an option to change this behavior, but if you’re using a child theme it’s possible with a bit of tweaking.

If you have an active child theme and are comfortable making a couple of careful edits to the code, let me know and I can write up the steps required.

Thanks for getting in touch, and I apologize again for the delay!

Hello Steven,

I have a child theme and can edit it so any steps would help. Thanks!!!

Rob

Hi Rob,

I am so sorry- we didn’t receive a notification again, even though we’re subscribed to the topic.

If you still need this functionality, here are the steps to achieve it:

1. Copy (not move) /includes/wp_bootstrap_navwalker.php from your parent theme into the same location within your child theme.

2. In the child copy of this file, replace this code around line 128:

// If item has_children add atts to a.
if ( $args->has_children && $depth === 0 ) {
	$atts['href'] = '#';
	$atts['data-toggle'] = 'dropdown';
	$atts['class'] = 'dropdown-toggle';
	$atts['aria-haspopup'] = 'true';
	$atts['aria-expanded'] = 'false';
} else {
	$atts['href'] = ! empty( $item->url ) ? $item->url : '';
}

With this code:

//For clickable parent nodes
if ( $args->has_children && $depth === 0 ) {
	$atts['class'] = 'dropdown-toggle';
	$atts['aria-haspopup'] = 'true';
	$atts['aria-expanded'] = 'false';
}
$atts['href'] = ! empty( $item->url ) ? $item->url : '';

3. In your child functions.php, add this line just after the opening PHP tag:
require get_theme_file_path('/includes/wp_bootstrap_navwalker.php');

If you have any trouble, just let us know- I’ll try to manually keep an eye on this thread since we’re not receiving notifications.