Title: Custom Link bug
Last modified: September 21, 2017

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# Custom Link bug

 *  [jwwdj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwwdj/)
 * (@jwwdj)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-link-bug/)
 * In my main menu I have a menu item called “Our Mission” that is supposed to be
   a heading with sub-menu items under it. I don’t want “Our Mission” to link to
   anything so I set it up as a Custom Link with a blank URL. This technique works
   fine on every other theme I have ever used. But the Experon theme is generating
   a link [https://www.msch.org/our-mission/](https://www.msch.org/our-mission/).
   There is no /our-mission page so the 404 page is displaying. Why does Experon
   generate a link for a Custom Link with a blank URL?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcustom-link-bug%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [tsuzan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsuzan/)
 * (@tsuzan)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-link-bug/#post-9515891)
 * Hi @ jwwdj
 * Please update the permalinks from dashboard once.
 * Hope this works.
 * Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [jwwdj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwwdj/)
 * (@jwwdj)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-link-bug/#post-9526175)
 * Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but no luck. Still seeing urls for pages
   that do not exist. When I switch to another theme, the menu and the custom links
   work as expected. Experon seems to be the culprit.
 *  [emranemranx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emranemranx/)
 * (@emranemranx)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-link-bug/#post-9527683)
 * Hi Jwwdj,
 * When you create a custom link, then ensure to add # in the URL field:
 * [http://prntscr.com/gpfpqv](http://prntscr.com/gpfpqv)
 * Thanks!

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