How to Add Non-WordPress Pages to the Headway Navigation Menu

This tutorial requires you to have AIOSEO disabled. You can reactivate it afterward if you want.

If you’re building a “static website” then you may want to link to some HTML pages that weren’t converted to wordpress, or to a blog that may be off-site. Luckily, the headway theme makes this process easy.

How to Add Non-Wordpress Pages to the Headway Themes Navigation Menu

Follow these steps to add your page to the navigation menu:

  • Create a new page. Name it anything you want.
  • Scroll down to the “Search Engine Optimization (SEO)” panel while editing this page and expand it if it is not already expanded. It looks like this:

  • Insert the URL to the page you want to link to in the “Redirect URL” field (shown above in green)
  • Update or publish the page.

That’s it! The new page should now link to an external page or website.

Any Questions?

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Digital Pure 5 pts

This is a great tip, but would it not be easier to just add a custom menu item via the WP menu builder, and reference the site directly so there is no 301 redirect. Since you are not pulling the content into your page there is no on-page value from a seo standpoint to having the link, even with a nice permalink. Also, if you did a custom menu item you could pass rel=author values to the link and possibly signal to the engines that you are going to a page that is yours also, and actually get some juice from it.

Just another idea.

Great tips thanks. I am loving these tutorials.

Hey Corey,

I want to thank you for visiting my blog and leaving your insights.

I was thinking about converting one of my static websites with html pages into a WordPress site. I get on an average of 45-50 visitors a day in that site just from the search engines....Is there any way I can transfer the site into a headway site without loosing my search engine ranks and what would be the easiest way to doing this?

Thank you Corey..

Use a custom permalink structure and keep all the page names and URLs the same. Use 301 redirects when necessary.