Can I use this plugin, and if so how ?

  • I want a sidebar menu that:

    1) Is made up by predefined custom menus in the WordPress menu-editor so that I can have different menus for different parts of the site

    2) Only shows the subpages that is one level under the page (parent page, subpage, etc.) that is viewed/clicked on

    3) Shows the subpages by expanding the menu, instead of a vertical dropdown menu, so that it is possible for the students to see where I am on the site all the time in the classroom

    Can I use this plugin for that, and if so how ?

    Or can anyone recommend a plugin for that ?

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  • Plugin Author wizzud

    (@wizzud)

    Apologies for the [very!] delayed response.

    1. If you’re using multiple custom menus, and the determination of which menu/menus is/are displayed is page-dependent, then something like Dynamic Widgets might be more appropriate.

    2. Yes, CMW could easily do that. But the same effect – of just hiding low sub-levels of a menu – can be achieved with some CSS?

    3. The presentation of the menu items is more to do your theme than anything else. CMW can reduce the number of items sent to the page, but it has no front end styling (at all!).

    CMW is all about filtering one menu’s items based on certain criteria, often involving the page currently being shown. I get the impression that you are more concerned with which [of several?] menus get displayed when, how many levels of any particular menu are visible, and how what’s visible gets displayed. So while CMW can probably do the 1st, definitely the 2nd, but not the 3rd, I suspect that it might have more specific functionality than is required here, and that WordPress’s own Navigation Menu widget, with Dynamic Widgets (or similar) plugin, plus some CSS rules added to the theme, might suit better.

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