Advanced Sidebar Menu

WordPress plugin which uses the parent/child relationship of your pages or categories to generate menus based on the current section of your site.

Advanced Sidebar Menu

So What exactly is the Advanced Sidebar Menu?

As the web grows so does the size of website’s sitemaps. As these grow to be 30, 100, 0r even 500 pages, the traditional single navigation becomes too cluttered. We try to make it a little cleaner by adding an additional navigation in the sidebar, but we can’t display every page the site has in the sidebar. We could create custom menus for each page or section and register different widget areas but this ends up being way too much work and impossible to maintain.

This is where this handy little plugin comes in:

The Advanced Sidebar Menu creates normal widgets that can be added into a widget area like any other. When viewing the page, the menu display only the pages that are parents of the page you are currently viewing or children of the highest level parent page of the page you are currently viewing.

Here is an example:

1. Let’s say you have a page called “About”, this will be our parent page.
2. We have 3 other pages “Contact”, “Services”, and “Hours” . Each of these pages will be have “About” set as the parent page.
3. We add another level of pages “Office”, and “Field” and we assign “Contact” as the parent page for these two pages.

We now have a page structure that looks like this:

This process will continue on any pages the widget is displayed on. Just like that, it makes your huge sitemap manageable and easy for your viewers to navigate.

This works the same way for categories. By selecting the Advanced Sidebar Categories Menu widget you can have the same parent and child generated menus for your categories. Any categories the widget is displayed on will automatically generate the menu. You may optionally select to have the categories show up on your single posts as well.

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Features

• Page and Category menu widgets.
• Page and Category menu Gutenberg blocks.
• 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, or 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 the same list.

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• Navigation menu widget.
• Navigation menu Gutenberg block.
• Ability to customize each category or page link title with a simple text field.
• Click-and-drag styling for page, category, and navigation menus.
• 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.
• Ability to exclude a page from all menus using a simple checkbox.
• Ability to exclude category from all menus using a simple checkbox.   New
• Link ordering for category menus.
• 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.
• Ability to display category post counts.   New
• 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 menu on every page (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.