Comments on: Dynamic Multi-level Page Menus in WordPress

By: Curtis Henson

Curtis Henson — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:50:42 +0000

Not the way it is currently written, but could be possible. Maybe if you put the child menu into a variable and then called it somewhere else in the template or passed it into another function.

By: Simon Duun

Simon Duun — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:45:44 +0000

Thank you so much. However, I have a question.

Is it possible to move the childmenu to a different block(div) than where the mastermenu is?

By: Curtis Henson

Curtis Henson — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:21:30 +0000

The CSS is to absolutely position the children under the parent.

If you can’t see the children in the HTML then something else is the problem.

By: Josh Teague

Josh Teague — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:56:11 +0000

what kind of CSS do I need to do to make it behave right? I can not even get the first level child pages to show up.

By: Glenn Geiger

Glenn Geiger — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:10:14 +0000

Thanks, that makes sense. Still working on the array concept that would build a list of child and grandchild pages for the current parent, then only show those child pages of the current parent, and only show those grandchild pages of the current child. I’ll post back if I come up with anything.

By: Curtis Henson

Curtis Henson — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:02:16 +0000

Sebastian's code was mangled I think that first line should read something like: $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=". $post->ID ."&echo=0");

By: Glenn Geiger

Glenn Geiger — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:44:58 +0000

Are you using this in addition to the function, or on it’s own?

Also, does the first line:
ID.'&echo=0');
have to do with the menu?

By: Glenn Geiger

Glenn Geiger — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:42:34 +0000

It’s true that the function currently shows all child and grandchild pages of the active parent. I like the idea of building an array, but using page ID’s would not be a ‘dynamic’ solution to the problem. If I could write this myself, believe me, I would! So thanks for the function and the discussion.

By: Ollie

Ollie — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:29:24 +0000

Awesome!

Just what I was looking for. You’re the best man!

Thanks so much, works perfectly.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:21:26 +0000

Hey,

I like to keep things simple.
What I am using is this:

ID.'&echo=0'); if($children) { $has_children = true; } // case: child page if(is_page() && $post->post_parent) { // This is a subpage $menu = wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&depth=0&echo=0');


	// case: parent page

	} else if($has_children) {

		// This is a parent page that have subpages

		$menu = wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&depth=0&echo=0');

	}

	// case: not a parent page and not a child page

	else {

		$menu = wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&depth=1&echo=0');

	}

?>

And the rest is just CSS.

Of course it is a different style of navigation but it works fine for most websites I am developing.