How-To set Custom Menu's collapsed as default

Can you paste here code of your sidebar.php from your theme.

Yes indeed, here it is … from sidebar.php in Mandigo v. 1.42

<?php
    // this file defines the default sidebar
    // if you are using widgets, you do not need to edit this file

    global $mandigo_options;

    // heading level for widget title (h1, h2, div, ...)
    $tag_widget = $mandigo_options['heading_level_widget_title'];
?>
    <td id="sidebar1">
        <ul class="sidebars">
<?php
    // if wp doesn't support sidebars, or if we are not using any widget in sidebar 1
    if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar 1')) {

        // our search widget, defined in functions.php
        widget_mandigo_search();

        // our calendar widget, defined in functions.php
        widget_mandigo_calendar();

        // if we are browsing a category archive
        if (is_category()) {
            $what_youre_doing = sprintf(
                __('You are currently browsing the archives for the \'%s\' category.', 'mandigo'),
                single_cat_title('', false)
            );
        }

        // if wp supports tags and this is a tag archive
        elseif (function_exists(is_tag) && is_tag()) {
            $what_youre_doing = sprintf(
                __('You are currently browsing the %s weblog archives for posts tagged \'%s\'.', 'mandigo'),
                sprintf(
                    '<a href="%s/">%s</a>',
                    get_bloginfo('home'),
                    get_bloginfo('name')
                ),
                single_tag_title('', false)
            );
        }

        // if this is a daily archive
        elseif (is_day()) {
            $what_youre_doing = sprintf(
                __('You are currently browsing the %s weblog archives for the day %s.', 'mandigo'),
                sprintf(
                    '<a href="%s/">%s</a>',
                    get_bloginfo('home'),
                    get_bloginfo('name')
                ),
                get_the_time(__('l, F jS, Y', 'mandigo'))
            );
        }

        // if this is a monthly archive
        elseif (is_month()) {
            $what_youre_doing = sprintf(
                __('You are currently browsing the %s weblog archives for %s.', 'mandigo'),
                sprintf(
                    '<a href="%s/">%s</a>',
                    get_bloginfo('home'),
                    get_bloginfo('name')
                ),
                get_the_time(__('F, Y', 'mandigo'))
            );
        }

        // if this is a yearly archive
        elseif (is_year()) {
            $what_youre_doing = sprintf(
                __('You are currently browsing the %s weblog archives for the year %s.', 'mandigo'),
                sprintf(
                    '<a href="%s/">%s</a>',
                    get_bloginfo('home'),
                    get_bloginfo('name')
                ),
                get_the_time('Y')
            );
        }

        // if this is a search result
        elseif (is_search()) {
            $what_youre_doing = sprintf(
                __('You have searched the %s weblog archives for %s. If you are unable to find anything in these search results, you can try one of these links.', 'mandigo'),
                sprintf(
                    '<a href="%s/">%s</a>',
                    get_bloginfo('home'),
                    get_bloginfo('name')
                ),
                '<strong>\''. wp_specialchars($s) .'\'</strong>'
            );
        }

        // otherwise, not sure when this is triggered
        elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) && !empty($_GET['paged'])) {
            $what_youre_doing = sprintf(
                __('You are currently browsing the %s weblog archives.', 'mandigo'),
                sprintf(
                    '<a href="%s/">%s</a>',
                    get_bloginfo('home'),
                    get_bloginfo('name')
                )
            );
        }

        // make sure the variable has been set
        if ($what_youre_doing) {
?>
            <li><?php echo $what_youre_doing; ?></li>
<?php
        }

        // the list of pages
        wp_list_pages(
            array(
                'sort_column' => 'menu_order',
                'title_li'    => sprintf(
                    '<%s class="widgettitle">%s</%s>',
                    $tag_widget,
                    str_replace('&', '%26', __('Pages', 'mandigo')),
                    $tag_widget
                ),
            )
        );
?>

            <li><<?php echo $tag_widget; ?> class="widgettitle"><?php _e('Categories', 'mandigo'); ?></<?php echo $tag_widget; ?>>
                <ul>
<?php
        // the list of categories
        wp_list_cats(
            array(
                'sort_column'  => 'name',
                'optioncount'  => 1,
                'hide_empty'   => 0,
                'hierarchical' => 1,
            )
        );
?>
                </ul>
            </li>

<?php
        // if wordpress supports tags
        if (function_exists('wp_tag_cloud')) {
?>
            <li><<?php echo $tag_widget; ?> class="widgettitle"><?php _e('Tags', 'mandigo'); ?></<?php echo $tag_widget; ?>>
                <?php wp_tag_cloud(); ?>
            </li>
<?php
        }

        // if this is the frontpage
        if (is_home() || is_page()) {
            // put the blogroll
            get_links_list();
        }

        // our meta widget, defined in functions.php
        widget_mandigo_meta();
    }
?>
        </ul>
    </td>

That option can be created but it will take some time.

For now you can tell me which menus you want to keep collapsed i’ll tell you that exact code.

Ok great. All of them would be the short answer. In the Demo site I gave in my opening message this would be:

• Search
• About Us
• Worship Services
• News and Events
• Links
• We are members of
• Services
• Map & Directions

And that if any thing else is added it too by default would be collapsed. Personally I think this is an option that should be included with the “Custom Menu” feature in 3.1 .

Thank you

One of our guys came up with a quick and dirt way of doing this. In the footer.php file we inserted

// induce a click to force the widgets to be displayed collapsed

                jQuery(".widgettitle div").hide();
                jQuery(".widgettitle, .linkcat *:first, .wpg2blockwidget h3").trigger("click");
});
// ]]> -->
</script>

<?php
	// HTML Inserts: very end of the page
	echo get_option('mandigo_inserts_veryend');
?>

This is slow but for now, for demonstration purposes it works.