Uses the parent/child relationship of your pages or categories to generate menus based on the current section of your site. Assign a page or category to a parent and this will do the rest for you.
Keeps the menu clean and usable. Only related items display so you don’t have to worry about keeping a custom menu up to date or displaying links to items that don’t belong.
Check out Advanced Sidebar Menu PRO for more features including accordion menus, menu colors and styles, custom link text, excluding of pages, category ordering, custom post types, custom taxonomies, priority support, and so much more!
PRO version 8.4.0 is now available with accordion options to use links for open/close!
Features
- Page and Category widgets.
- Option to display or not display the highest level parent page or category.
- Option to display the menu when there is only the highest level parent.
- Ability to order pages by (date, title, page order).
- Exclude pages or categories by entering a comma separated list of ids.
- Option to always display child pages or categories.
- Option to select the levels of pages or categories to display when always display child is used.
- Option to display or not display categories on single posts.
- Ability to display each single post’s category in a new widget or in same list.
Page Widget Options
- Add a title to the widget
- Display the highest level parent page
- Display menu when there is only the parent page
- Order pages by (date, title, page order)
- Exclude pages
- Always display child Pages
- Number of levels of child pages to display when always display child pages is checked
Category Widget Options
- Add a title to the widget
- Display the highest level parent category
- Display menu when there is only the parent category
- Display categories on single posts
- Display each single post’s category in a new widget or in same list
- Exclude categories
- Always display child categories
- Levels of Categories to display when always display child categories is checked
PRO Features
- Ability to customize each page or navigation menu item link’s text.
- Click-and-drag styling for page, category, and navigation menu widgets.
- Styling options for links including color, background color, size, hover, and font weight.
- Styling options for different levels of links.
- Styling options for the current page or category.
- Styling options for the parent of the current page or category.
- Blocked styling options including borders, border width, and border colors.
- Option to choose from 7 bullet styles or no bullets.
- Accordion menu support for pages, categories, and navigation menus.
- Accordion icon style and color selection.
- Accordion option to keep all sections closed until clicked.
- Accordion option to include highest level parent in accordion.
- Accordion option to use links for open/close. NEW
- Ability to exclude a page from all menus using a simple checkbox.
- Link ordering for the category widget.
- Number of levels of pages to show when “always display child pages” is not checked.
- Ability to select and display custom post types.
- Ability to select and display custom taxonomies.
- Option to display only the current page’s parents, grandparents, and children.
- Option to display child page siblings when on a child page (with or without grandchildren available).
- Ability to display the widgets everywhere the widget area is used (including homepage if applicable).
- Ability to select the highest level parent page/category.
- Ability to select which levels of categories assigned posts will display under.
- Ability to display assigned posts or custom post types under categories or taxonomies.
- Ability to limit the number of posts or custom post types to display under categories.
- Support for custom navigation menus from Appearance -> Menus.
- Ability to display the current navigation menu item’s parents and children only.
- Option to display the top-level navigation menu items when there are no child items or not viewing a menu item.
- Priority support with access to members only support area.
Translations
This plugin includes the following languages:
* English (en_US)
* French (fr_FR)
* German (de_DE)
* Spanish (es_ES)
Developers
Developer docs may be found here.
Contribute
Send pull requests via the GitHub Repo
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.