A menu that opens on hover opens by accident as often as on purpose — and on a phone it does not open at all, because there is no hover to give.
Switching the trigger to click makes the menu behave the same way for every visitor and every device.
For every Circle Menu setting in one place, see the Circle Menu feature guide.
Before You Start
- Edition: Pro — the Circle Menu block needs Nexter Blocks Pro.
- Block to enable: Circle Menu, switched on under Nexter > Blocks in your WordPress dashboard.
Steps
- Add the Circle Menu block and set Layout to Circle.
- Add your links in the Menu List and choose a Direction.
- Go to Extra Options and set Icon Trigger to Click.
- Save the page and check it on the front end — the trigger does not preview in the editor.
How It Behaves
| Icon Trigger | Measured on a published page |
|---|---|
| Hover (default) | Hovering the toggle opened the menu; clicking opened it too. |
| Click | Hovering did nothing at all; clicking the toggle opened the menu. |
- Click is the safer choice whenever the page matters on phones and tablets, where hover does not exist.
- It also stops the menu springing open as a visitor’s pointer crosses the corner of the screen on the way to something else.
- The open and close behaviour does not preview inside the block editor — the editor says so on the control itself. Save and view the page to see it work.
Limitations
- Icon Trigger only applies to the Circle layout. Measured: the Straight layout opens on click regardless, and the setting is not offered for it.
- The trigger is a block-level setting, so every item in one menu shares it.
- There is no separate “close” trigger — the same toggle closes the menu again.
- The behaviour cannot be previewed in the editor; it has to be checked on the published page.
Troubleshooting
The menu still opens on hover
Check Icon Trigger is set to Click under Extra Options, and that you are looking at the published page rather than the editor — the trigger does not preview while editing.
I cannot find the Icon Trigger setting
It lives under Extra Options and only appears for the Circle layout. A straight menu already opens on click.
It works on desktop but not on my phone
That is the symptom of a hover trigger. Set Icon Trigger to Click — measured, a hover-triggered menu cannot be opened without a pointer.
