Question for future Ghost user

Hello

I am currently messing around with Ghost options. I see that I can create drop-down menus.

When I do this, then the main page becomes inaccessible, correct?

Ideally, I would be able to replicate the drop-down structure that I’ve got on https://www.philsimon.com. It’s a WordPress site.

Note how you can click on the blog page and all of the subpages. The same is true for the speaking page and the subpages. Other words, the parent page is not just a #.

Does that make sense?

I’m not sure what you mean by “the main page becomes inaccessible”. Do you have an example?

Otherwise, what you want to do is create drop-down menus as seen in this Ghost theme?

Thanks for the response, @Stromfeldt.

I’d like to be able to store content on both the parent page and the child page.

In other words, I don’t want the equivalent of this Free Resources page.

You mean to say you want your Ghost site to exist on a subdirectory of your domain?

No. I really don’t know how else to explain it.

I’m not looking for the parent page to be xyz.com/#.

Hey Phil,

I think the confusion here is that there’s no page hierarchy in Ghost. What I think you’re actually asking is all about your dropdown menu, and is “How can I have the item that appears at the top of the menu be a clickable link with a destination, not just a toggle for the dropdown items?”

It’s certainly possible to set this up. Ghost doesn’t have any built-in support for customizable dropdown menus, so I’m guessing you’re using a theme that has some, or some code injection that provides it. Ahha, just peeked at your site, and you’re using @Raki 's code. I’m not sure if that package supports having a separate dropdown toggle or not, but I’ve definitely seen (and written) code that does.

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