Custom Navigation Pages lets you add up to 10 custom pages to your Learner Hub's primary navigation, giving you full control over what your learners see and where they can go in their learning experience.
Applies to:
- Plan: Plus
- Role: Site Owner, Site Admin
- Platform: Web
What's New with the Custom Navigation Pages in the Learner Hub
- Add up to 10 custom navigation pages to your Learner Hub alongside the default pages.
- Choose your page type — create an internal page where you add widgets, or add an external URL that opens a linked page or website outside the hub.
- Embed external content directly in the Learner Hub using the Web page widget — display any web page as an iframe within your hub.
How Custom Navigation Pages in the Learner Hub Work
Custom Navigation Pages extends the Learner Hub's primary navigation with pages you define. Each custom page can either be hosted in the Learner Hub or be opened in a new tab as an external URL that redirects learners to any web address you specify. Custom pages hosted on the Learner Hub use the same widget layout editor as the Learner Home page. All custom pages are visible only to logged-in learners, and you can reorder, show, or hide any page at any time from your Navigation settings by following the steps here: How to Customize Your Learner Hub.
Getting Started with Custom Pages in the Learner Hub
How to Add a Custom Navigation Page
- From your Admin Dashboard, select Learner Hub
- Select Customize learner hub
- Select Navigation
- Select Add custom page
- Enter a label for the page — this is what learners see in the navigation menu
- Choose your page type:
- Select Learner hub page to build a widget-based page hosted in the Learner hub
- Select Open in new tab to link learners to a page or website outside the hub
- If you selected Open in new tab, enter the destination URL.
- Click Save.
How to Build and Edit a Custom Learner Hub Page
When you first create a custom page hosted in the Learner Hub, it will appear blank and hidden from your learners. Before the page can be made visible to learners, you will need to build the page. To do so:
- From your Admin Dashboard, select Learner Hub
- Select Customize learner hub
- Select Navigation
- Find the custom page you want to edit
- Click on three ellipses (three dots)
- Select Edit page
- After the custom page opens, select Edit layout
- Drag and drop desired widgets to the custom page. Select widgets from the list of default ones or create a custom widget to include on your custom page!
Add the Web Page Widget to the Custom Learner Hub Page
Custom pages allow you to select any widgets from the list of default ones or create a custom widget to include on your custom page. The custom learner hub page allows you to add a widget unique to custom pages: a web page widget.
The web page widget allows you to embed and display any web page on your custom page. Note that the widget requires a URL that allows embedding — some websites block iframes and will not display correctly inside the Learner Hub.
To add the web page widget:
- From your Admin Dashboard, select Learner Hub
- Select Customize learner hub
- Select Navigation
- Find the custom page you want to edit
- Click on three ellipses (three dots)
- Select Edit page
- After the custom page opens, select Edit layout
- Drag and drop the web page widget to your page
- Click Publish changes
- In the web page widget, select which Thinkific page or an external URL the widget should display
- Select Fetch
To edit the web page widget:
- From your Admin Dashboard, select Learner Hub
- Select Customize learner hub
- Select Navigation
- Find the custom page you want to edit
- Click on three ellipses (three dots)
- Select Edit page
- Find the web page widget you added
- Select the cog icon
- Change the URL or the page that is displayed
- Select Update
Important Considerations
- You can add up to 10 custom navigation pages. This is in addition to the default navigation items (Library, Catalog, Community, etc.).
- Custom navigation pages are visible to all logged-in learners on your site. There is currently no per-learner or per-membership visibility control for custom pages.
- Custom navigation pages are part of the logged-in Learner Hub experience only. Public-facing site navigation is managed separately in Site Builder.
- Note that the custom pages do not support multicolumn widget layout. At the moment, widgets must be placed in one column and can be moved around but cannot be resized.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I show different navigation pages to different learners?
Can I add more than 10 custom pages?
Related Articles
- Prerequisites: How to Customize Your Learner Hub
- Next step: Introducing Custom Widgets: Build Rich Page Experiences in Your Learner Hub
- Learn more: The Learner Hub