I only want to show the pages that do not have parents, and link the other pages from their parent pages.
I want to have a simple main menu: Home | Pages | About | Contact
About 8 pages are linked from the Pages page. At the moment, the menu has 12 items, which deforms the layout pretty badly.
I have tried making the pages private, unpublished, and other options, but that doesn't seem to be the way to do it. Is there a way I can just have only parent pages linked in the main menu?
You can edit the menu (under the appearance tab in the dashboard). (you may need to add a new menu and assign it to the main navigation menu. It sounds like you have the defaulted menu set-up.
Once you've added a menu and assigned it to the main navigation, you can uncheck "automatically add top-level elements" or its equivalent, and add/remove menu items. You can also change their hierarchy (independent of actual page hierarchy).
It's all so easy these days. Just Go to appearance>menus>click the little triangle next to the listed page name>click remove> don't forget to save ... all done!
Maybe you didn't set up a custom menu yet. Set up a custom menu first with the desired pages / links. If it doesn't show on your site, check custom memus are enabled in your theme.. this will help you setting up a custom menu: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-add-custom-navigation-menus-in-wordpress-3-0-themes/
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I would like to be able to create a navigation menu in WordPress in which the top-level nav items are not pages, but rather menu headings, which expand the sub menu when clicked.
The default WP menu behavior is that all menu items are links to content (pages, posts, etc), and that sub-items are viewed upon hover.
I'm looking for a way to make it work more like the menu behavior built into Twitter Bootstrap (and for the same usability reason).
I'm looking for a solution that either already exists as a plugin, or which I can build into a plugin, so that anyone can create a new menu like this in the WordPress menu editor.
checkout this tutorial :
https://digwp.com/2011/11/html-formatting-custom-menus/
If you dont want any custom html structure than you can simply add the classed to menu and for top level menu create a custom link with # as href.
I have a Wordpress theme which has been designed, however, the links are wrong at the top
For example:
About Us should go to here
Furniture should go to here
The link to the blog is here
I have already tried adjusting the position, and the width of each menu item, but to no avail.
In Wordpress Admin console there is the option Appearance>Menu. Create a new menu, add the items you want (you can add pages you made, create custom items with links to other pages, etc), save the menu. Now go to Appeareance>Themes>Customize current theme and change the navigation path.
I have following navigation structure, which i want to implement in wordpress:
(Home / About / news / Contact) are in top navigation, whereas all sub links are in sidebar.
How can i create this type of navigation in wordpress. i.e. How can i display first level navigation in header and second level navigation in sidebar.
Follow these steps:
First create a main Navigation to your site without child pages and
add it to the theme.
Then create a new menu with child menus only and save it.
Now goto widgets section and from there drag Custom Menu from left
side and add to your sidebar.
Then select your child menu and click save.
Thats all. :)
Check this WordPress Codex section for creating menu tutorial
Cheers!!!
I found these plugins helpful:
Simple Section Navigation
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-section-navigation/
It allowed me to create the side nav based on the hierarchy of the pages and their children.
I wanted a bit more control though because I didn't want some of the parents to have their own page ... just a heading for their children. So instead, I'm using this plugin (for the Genesis Framework).
Genesis Simple Sidebars
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-simple-sidebars/
This allows me to create as many sidebars as I want and add custom menus to those. I'm new to this, so maybe I'm taking a long route, but so far it seems to be doing what I want it to.
I'm using the default Wordpress theme Twenty Eleven.
I was wondering if it's possible to add a menu in the sidebar, that leads to "hidden pages", pages that are not listed in the classic menu bar on top.
I want these menu voices to be on every page, in the default sidebar.
Any useful plugin that does this, or any other method? I wasn't lucky to find one until now.
Thank you!
create one custom menu for hidden pages
use this plugin Exclude pages from menu
and checked all hidden page, so, this will show only the pages which are checked..
this question belong on https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/
There is a default widget -called custom menu- in which you can select a menu to display.
Do remember to make a sperate menu
I'm using 2 different menus in 2 different blocks. They are enabled / disabled depending on the the pages users arevisiting.
Now, I have an issue with the breadcrumbs: they only work with the main menu and not the second one.
I need to automatically have the breadcrumbs the other menu as well.
thanks
Drupal's menu system sets only one active menu at a time: if you're trying to have two breadcrumbs at the same time on the same page, you're going to need to use menu_set_active_menu_name() to do some juggling back and forth.
However, if you're just trying to have one show up, consider using the Menu Breadcrumb module, which automatically sets the active menu based on the page. You also have the ability to set menu priority for pages that exist in more than one menu.
This question is not strictly programming related, however:
Drupal breadcrumbs follow the menu-items as they are enabled. Regardless of whether the menu-items are visible, and regardless of what menu(containers) hold the menu. Items that are not in the menu (such as nodes!) will not have a breadcrumb.
That said, there is an exception, modules can override the breadcrumb with drupal_set_breadcrumb(), if they do so, the last one to set the breadcrumb gets to set the breadcrumb. E.g. taxonomy module sets the breadcrumb on taxonomy-pages.
You could set the breadcrumbs hardcoded in a module.
You should investigate why breadcrumbs don't follow your menu's in this case.
You could investigate modules that allow tweaking the breadcrumb behaviour, such as hansel