Version 8.3.0 of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin is now available and ready for general use. The purpose of this version was to add translation support for both French and Spanish languages. Expanding Supported Languages Although several languages have been available from wordpress.org for quite some time, until now the only languages supported internally within the plugin have been English and German. When I say "internally" I mean the complete language files ship with each version of … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar Menu – Version 8.2.0
Version 8.2.0 of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin is now available and ready for general use. This version polishes the UI from the ground up as well as adding support for hover styles, border widths, and more. The primary focus of this release was to make the widget settings clean and intuitive on any device or within any page builder. More than 60 commits were completed as part of this release, which makes it the most robust minor version release we have done in years. Note: Both the … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar Menu PRO – Accordions
All Advanced Sidebar Menu PRO widgets and blocks include support for accordion menus. Each menu has its own accordion settings which look something like this: Available Settings Enable accordion menu This option turns on the accordion functionality for this menu. It also opens up all available options to configure the accordion. Here are a couple of examples of what a menu may look like with accordions enabled: Icon style When accordions are enabled, you may select … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar Menu PRO – Navigation
Advanced Sidebar - Navigation The navigation widget and block is only available on the PRO version. Select Menu Select the menu from Appearance -> Menus which will be used in this widget. Any menu may be selected for use. Display the current item's section only If this option is selected the widget will not display items which are not related to the page you are viewing. For instance, if you have a menu which has multiple top-level items, only the top-level item above the … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar Menu PRO – Categories
Advanced Sidebar - Categories The categories widget and block supports all options available in the basic version as well as these additional options. Order By Order the categories by: Order Ascending or Descending. Display assigned posts under If this option is selected, posts which are assigned to the selected levels of categories will display in the menu. You may select any of these levels to display: Post Type Works in conjunction with "Display assigned posts … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar Menu PRO – Pages
Advanced Sidebar - Pages The pages widget and block supports all options available in the basic version as well as these additional options. Display levels of child pages This option allows you to select how many levels down you would like the menu to go. For instance, if you select 2 as the level it will show the top level parent page (if selected to show), the child pages, and up to 1 level of grandchild pages. Even when you are on a grandchild page, the menu will not display the … [Read more...]