Change of Theme has Different Menu Structure Parent/Child

CMS & WordPress
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Hello,

I want to change themes and it has presented me with a puzzle.

In my current theme a parent page takes the top-level menu item and the child pages are the sub-level items in the drop down. The new theme uses the parent page but it’s not a link.

So, I like my new theme and I have to make some changes to accommodate the new navigation structure. I can see I need to make an empty parent page and move the current parent to a child of that.

This means I guess, that I will have an empty page but will that be an SEO problem?

If it is OK to have that empty page to have as the top level menu item, should I have a redirect for that page, to the child page that it becomes? But if I do that, navigating to its parent will redirect to it. Oh my, I’m going round and round!

Thanks

Martin

The theme by the way is Reactor which is built on Zurb Foundation.

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OK I’m going to have another go at this.

I realise now that I can just add a link to make the top level of the menu. This leaves another problem.

I am styling page elements on page ID (no child) and Parent ID (child). If use a link as the top-level menu item, I have no parent. I can create a parent but keep them all as sub menu items of the link but I am wondering if that will create any difficulties further down the line?

Thanks

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