My left sidebar consists of eight site top-level category links (just one link per block) that are visible on nearly all my pages, and dynamically visible Menu Block blocks that show a tree structure for any given category. These Menu Block blocks only show up when users navigate to specific categories, and replace the other standard category single-link blocks when a user is browsing relevant pages. I've also styled the title of the Menu Block blocks the same as the category single-link blocks.

I recently realized that I've created a pretty significant usability issue. When users are browsing a given category on the site, they can jump to other categories just fine but they also want to click on the title of the Menu Block blocks to jump back up to the top of the category for the content area they are in at the time. But of course, the title is just a title, not a hyperlink. As a result, users are faced with the choice of either going to the front page or using the breadcrumbs. Of course, not everyone likes to use breadcrumbs and I prefer to make that a second choice if possible. If I could render the title of a Menu Block block as a link, that would solve my problem beautifully, but of course that's not yet possible.

I have no idea how many other users of this great module set up their sites as I have, but I imagine this enhancement would be a pretty sensible addition if this is a common scenario.

Also open to alternative suggestions to help me address this issue, if anyone has any.

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heh. Have you downloaded the latest 6.x-2.x-dev release?

This is a duplicate of the already-implemented #345419: Add option for menu title as link.

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Sorry, I had not actually. I was still on 6.x-2.2. My mistake!

However, even though I see the option now in 6.x-2.x-dev, the title does not appear to be linkified after checking the link box, even though I've cleared out the contents of the title field. Is there another step I missed?

After more thought, I realized this may be my own issue. The top levels of my menus - which is what each Menu Block block points to - do not have associated paths because they cannot (so far as I can tell). So Menu Block doesn't actually have a path that it can use. When I created this issue as a feature request, I was actually envisioning a means of entering paths into the block settings for each given Menu Block.

I suppose the thing to do now is to create a new second level in each menu, with the same names, and point the respective Menu Block blocks to that instead of to the top? (I think that's how it is supposed to work but I may have misunderstood).