Remove a Parent page and delete it from the Main Menu

Modified on Fri, 6 Jan, 2023 at 11:53 AM

Remove a Parent page and delete it from the Main Menu (written instructions)

Ensure that you are logged into your website. The black admin toolbar should be visible at the top of the screen.

The Home page of a GPsurgery.net website, with the admin toolbar visible at the top of the screen.

Go to the Parent page that you would like to remove. For this example, we are using the COVID-19 Parent page.

The Main Menu, with the COVID-19 page selected.

In the admin toolbar, click Edit Page.

The admin toolbar, with Edit Page selected.

In the Page editor, click the Move to Bin link.

The Page editor, with the Move to Bin link highlighted.

It will now appear that the Parent page has also been removed from the menu. It is important to follow the next steps, however, to ensure that your menu remains correctly organised.

The main menu, with COVID-19 now not visible.

Hover your mouse over the name of your website in the admin toolbar, and select Menus from the drop-down menu that appears.

The drop-down menu from the website name in the admin toolbar.

In the Menus editor, ensure that the Main Menu has been selected from the Select a menu to edit drop-down. Click the Select button once this has been done.

The Select a menu to edit drop-down menu, with the Select button.

Once you have selected the Main Menu, you will see a warning message (There are some invalid menu items...) The Parent page that you have just moved to the bin will appear in red in the list of menu items.

The warning message and invalid menu item (COVID-19)

Check the Bulk select checkbox at the top of the list.

The bulk select checkbox.

Mark the checkbox next to the Parent page that you have just removed.

The Bulk select checkbox

At the bottom of the list, click the Remove selected items link.

The Remove selected items link at the bottom of the Menus editor

Click the blue Save Menu button at the bottom of the screen to save the changes you have just made to the menu.

The save menu button.

The Parent page will now have been removed from the site, and from the Main Menu.

The Main Menu, with the old Parent page removed.

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