Hi,
I need to create a custom menu that combines lists of pages, categories and posts. I’d like the posts to be automatically added. like the are in the Advanced Sidebar Category Menu but I don’t see how to do that in the Advanced Sidebar Navigation Menu which allows me to combine categories and pages through the default WP nav menu. Is there a plugin to add to the WP default menu? I found an old plugin that automatically updates the nav menu with posts but the newer ones all use shortcodes. Help? Thanks.
Pam
Good Morning Pam,
I don’t know off hand of any plugin that automatically adds items to the nav menu.
The closest thing I think of is if you add the following filter to your active theme’s functions.php file, you will be able to use the category widget to automatically display both pages and posts which are assigned to the displayed categories:
If you need to add category support to pages so you can assign them to categories, you may do so with this filter:
Hope this gets you closer!
Mat Lipe
The problem was that I wanted a combined category menu with automatic posts AND static pages because categories need to have at least one post to appear in the menu. I was able to style a series of category and navigation (so I could pick the pages) menus to appear as one menu.