Secondary Navigation in Sidebar

[jbsolutios 0]

Dear All I would like to move the secondary navigation to sidebar 1 (which is on the right) so that it works in the same way that the "PageLines Pro - Grandchild" one does, with the same formatting, box around it etc. Is this possible? I have tried adding a custom menu and selecting this on a per-page basis, but it doesn't achieve what I want. I would like someone to be able to click on a menu item and then see everything which is at the same child level as it, rather than just what is below it. Is this possible please? Thanks

[Sourena 2]

Create your menu under "Appearance". Then go to "Widgets" and drag and drop "Custom Menu" widget to the widgetized area you want it to appear there. Chhose the menu you want to appear from the drop-down menu in "Custom Menu" widget.

[jbsolutios 0]

This only allows me to have a single menu for all pages though, whereas I need to be able to select a different menu for each page. In addition, it doesn't have any of the nice border or separators which the Grandchild Nav does. It would be great if I could create a Child Nav which showed all items at that page level, along with grandchildren. Is this possible please? Thanks

[Sourena 2]

To take care of the first issue you need to install a plugin called "Widget Logic". That enables you to specify a certain page for the widget to show up. For the second issue you need to customize the style (CSS) for that widget.

[jbsolutios 0]

Thanks Sourena, but I don't see how widget logic is going to help? I need to be able to have a different menu for every page at a certain level, e.g. all pages at the Internet level would want to show Broadband, Hosting, VoIP. I just feel that this is a big hole in PP at the moment. If you don't want to use secondary navigation in the header, you are stuck! Can I suggest that as a new feature, you are able to have secondary navigation within the side bars please? Thanks

[Sourena 2]

You have the secondary navigation within the sidebar. I showed you in the picture how to place it there! It is just a drag and drop. "Widget logic" enables you to show a certain feature on a page (or post or a category archive, etc) and hide it on other pages. You said "I need to be able to select a different menu for each page." "Widget logic"is the solution for that issue.

[jbsolutios 0]

The Custom Menu only allows you to select a single menu. I have dozens of different menus which I created for secondary navigation. I need to be able to change the menu, depending on the page, not just hide or show it.

[cmunns 16]

Yes, but that is what widget logic gives you the ability to do.

[jbsolutios 0]

I can see how I can hide a menu, but how can I tell it to change the custom menu please?

[Sourena 2]

You need to use "Conditional Tags" in "widget logic". More about "Conditional Tags" here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags Here you can read about how to use "Conditional Tags"in "widget logic": http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/faq/

[jbsolutios 0]

Thanks - can you give me a practical examples please as although I can work out how to determine the page, I don't know how to then tell WP to change the menu? Thanks

[cmunns 16]

I believe you would just want to add more menu widgets to the sidebar and continue with the widget logic.

[rapidform2011 0]

We also need a child-level nav like John, and we can do it by making a custom menu in Appearance>Menus. But we have to manually construct these nav menus, as opposed to PP's built in grandchl nav, which conveniently contructs the nav menu for us. Is there a way to have a child nav widget, just like the grandchild nav widget (specifically, that it's automatically created/updated)?

[cmunns 16]

You could just grab a plugin like this one: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flexi-pages-widget/

[peterluit 0]

This one is even better: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-vertical-mega-menu/ In combination with widget logic you have all flexibility. But to use both in the right way, you have to make additional menus in custom menus.

[rapidform2011 0]

Thanks cmunns & Peter. We're trying both plugins out and we'll see how it goes.

[kevinlearynet 0]

This function will check if the current page has children, or is a child with siblings, and display the child pages and/or siblings right above the primary sidebar.

/**
	*	List child pages in content area
	*/
	function base_list_children() {
		global $post;
		$page_ID = $post->ID;
		$ancestors = get_post_ancestors($page_ID);
		$children = wp_list_pages("child_of=$page_ID&echo=0");
	
		if( $children ) {
			$parent = $post->ID;
		} elseif ( $ancestors ) {
			$parent = $post->post_parent;
		}
		if( isset($parent) ) {
			$section = get_the_title($parent);
			$childlist = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=$parent&echo=0");
			if( $childlist ): ?>
			<div id="child-pages" class="widget">
				<div class="widget-pad">
					<h3 class="widget-title"><?php echo $section; ?></h3>
					<div class="textwidget sub-nav">
	
	

• <?php echo $childlist; ?>

</div> </div> </div><!--// end #child-pages --> <?php endif; } } add_action('pagelines_before_sidebar_primary','base_list_children');[/code]

A client liked the sidebar navigation example on RichRelevance.com, this achieves that functionality in a PageLines Pro child theme, just drop it into your [b]functions.php[/b] file.

[catrina 103]

John, is this issue resolved or do you still need a solution?

[saasagency 0]

Kevin, I used your code and it gave the best results! - Thank you. It is only missing one thing: the style of the grandchild format. I have this screen shot: your code is on top in the left colum and the grandchild style is below it. How can I (and anyone else with this idea) attach the styling of the grandchild to the code your provided? while I am here. It seem like an oversight to not display (prominently) any level of navigation because all navigation is there for good reason and its never filler. so should always be easily visible. my 2cents

[catrina 103]

You can use CSS to attach the styling. Can you provide a link to your site?