Creating Separate Menus in Pages

  • Hello,

    I am trying to create the following menu structure:
    The primary menu top bar with 10 pages. Once you click on a page, a page will open which should have a separate menu on a side with links to a number of different pages. And each page from this submenu should have links to separate pages, so it creates a three-tier structure, so to speak.
    For example:
    Menu Top Bar: Africa (Page)
    Once you click on Africa (Page) and open this separate page, it should have a menu of individual countries on the side (i.e. Angola, Morocco, South Africa, etc.) all different pages. And each of those pages (for example, Morocco), once opened should have a separate menu, for example: history, books, music, etc.
    My only wish and requirement is that all these sub-menses should NOT be in the main menu bar, but inside the individual pages.
    How can I make this happen? Please help!!

    Thank you very much,
    Dariya

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  • Sounds like you just want to show a simple parent-child relationship on the side.

    For each WordPress Page, you can set a Parent under the Page Attributes option block. If you don’t see the Page Attributes option block on your Page editor screen, you can enable it from the Screen Options pull-down at the top.

    In your example, you would set the Parent page to “Africa” for each individual country’s Page (e.g., Angola, Morocco, South Africa).

    Then, to display the child pages on the side for the “Africa” page, you have a few options:

    Thread Starter globalsb

    (@globalsb)

    Thank you very much Adam! I was actually able to create the sidebar menu for the first level (i.e. individual countries). However I am now struggling with the second. What I am trying to do is to create a page with a menu of category pages, for example:
    page – Morocco
    category 1- Books
    category 2 – Music
    category 3 – recipes
    etc.
    I can add the sidebar category menu to the parent page (Morocco); however once you click on the category page (let’s say ‘Books’), the individual category page does not list the menu (i.e. the rest of the categories – Music, Recipes, etc.). So if I need to switch to another category, I would have to use the “back” button, instead of clicking on the customized menu. Can you please advise if this is possible to create? I am new to WP, and I am building my first website… Thanks again!

    Let me see if I understand how you set up your sidebar category links:

    Sounds like you’ve set up “Books”, “Music”, and “Recipes” as your WordPress Categories? Then you’ve linked to the WordPress categories in the sidebar menu?

    For that second menu, are you using the Categories sidebar widget?

    What that widget does is, when you click a category, you’ll see all the Pages (and Posts) under the Category you just clicked, not just the ones for say, Morocco.

    Does that sound right?

    Thread Starter globalsb

    (@globalsb)

    Yes, I set up “books”, “music” and “recipes” as categories, and they are located in a page specific to them (let’s say “Morocco”).

    But no I did not use the Categories sidebar widget because it’s not page specific, as from what I understand I can set it up on the main page, but not on a specific page, is that correct? To set this menu up, I used a plug in which allowed me to set up a menu specific to a page, but it does not work with categories.. I researched similar plugins for categories but so far could not find anything.. Ideally, I would love those categories to show on the page (“Morocco”) as horizontal tabs that always stay there, regardless which category you’re on, but I am not sure at this point if that is even possible.. and no, unfortunately, they cannot be part of the main menu tab as it lists general continents (“Africa”, “Asia”, etc.)..

    Thank you so much for the assistance!

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