I have the same issue only able to link to the blog post topic, which once selected I am unable to remove, the link is now permanently set to the blog post topic.
Additionally when entering an external URL – works fine until you come out of the customise function, the URL seems to disappear and reverts back to the blog post topic.
Can you please let me know how I can get around the problem.
Great theme though – can’t wait until you fix the issue