Creating a Redirect (Link) to an External Website - Advanced

School Webmasters ONLY Last updated 9/24/19

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Notes	•

You must add the Redirect in TWO places: the actual page dynamic nav and the mega menu dropdown.

Page doesn’t exist yet? Adding a new page:

Click Add Page in the black bar.

Below is a list of all your internal pages of your website and the sections they live in (should be pretty much the same as the mega menu bar categories)

Click the GREEN Plus (+) sign button to add a page to that category.

Clicking these arrows will show all internal pages within the section.

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New Content Page

If you want your new page
	
	to be hidden in the side
		
	navigation area, uncheck
		
	this box.

The Show page in dynamic nav is auto checked for you.

This will hide it from anyone whom doesn’t have a direct link or know the exact URL of that page. “Hidden Page”

Type the title of the new page

SAVE to create
the page	4

Go to the General Settings of either the new page or an existing page you’re wanting to now Redirect.

Remember, you have not added the page to your mega menu drop down yet.

	To change the page title

A friendly URL will auto generate based off your title!
When redirecting to a new site, leave
	
	this be.

Copy the URL of the website you want users to be taken to and paste it here: (ie: www.peachjar.com/23048029)

SAVE

Keep in Mind:

• When you add an internal page and add it to the mega menu, it automatically goes to the bottom of the dynamic navigation (side nav)
list and the dropdown list.

• To change the order of the page in the dynamic side navigation, you must click Add Page, click the arrow next to your desired section, and
drag the page into the order you want.

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THEN: Go to your mega menu to add the URL there too

1.	Click your name in the black bar 2.	Click “Admin Tool”
3.	Find your school’s name on the right 4.	Custom Drop Down Menu

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Find the section you created your page under

Add an Item

To edit, delete, or re-order your dropdown menu, you can use the controls on the right.

To re-order, simply drag them into order.

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Some schools have multiple sections of a category:

Each break is a new column

HOWEVER, You cannot move menu items from one column to another. They have to be re-added from scratch.

You can move columns up or down in order
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To connect your new page to the drop down:

	
Paste the URL you want users to be taken to here.

Title of your page (ie: Peachjar)

CHANGE this to New Window so that they don’t fully leave your website.

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	Redirect

	Own website

Find the item you just added.

For redirects to new websites, it will say NEW WINDOW

To change the order it appear, simply drag the item into the order you like.

**You can not drag menu items into new sections (ie: Volunteers from Parents to Students sections). Instead, you must delete it from one section and re-add it to another one.

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To test the link of the redirect:

	

Go to the dropdown and click the new page. If it takes you to your new page, it works!

Go to your homepage (easiest way to get out from the back end is to just type it in the url)

Then, check if the dynamic nav link takes you to the redirect as well.

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