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Display all top level pages in menu

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Requested: 2 years and 9 months ago

I just purchased this plugin but run into slight problem. I was using the GD Pages Navigator plugin but it did not have accordian navigation so I purchased yours because I was too lazy to right my own js for the GD plugin. The GD plugin does what I describe below but not in an accordian menu style, just a static full list type menu style.

Your plugin does what I want it to in terms of the accordian navigation but one thing it does not do is display all top level posts when I am using the widget to display on all pages. To be clearer this is what I have;

1. Custom Post Type PositiveFamilies
2. Top Level posts in this custom Post type – lets call them TopA and TopB for ease
3. When I show your widget on other pages I would like TopA and TopB to be shown as an accordian menu with all the sub pages underneath the menu, however I cannot get this to work. No matter what settings I use, I do see the accordian menu, unless I navigate to say the post TopA then it starts to appear. Essentially I wan the accordian menu to always be showing a full accordian menu of the PositiveFamilies posts (ie showing TopA and TopB) no matter if I am on other pages/post types ie the menu should look like below on all pages/posts

TopA
TopB

If I am on a PositiveFamilies post (eg TopA-SubPage1) then the accordian menu should be expanded along the current path eg

TopA
SubPage1
ToB

How can I get this to work the way I need it?

  1. The menu requires a parent page to generate the parent/child hierarchy.

    If you assign a shared parent page to both TopA and TopB and uncheck the “Display highest level parent page” option in the widget , the menu will display as requested.

    The page hierarchy would look like this:

    SharedParent
    -> TopA
    -> -> SubPage1
    ->TopB

    Let me know if you have any questions.

     

     

  2. Hi Matt,

    I realise I can do that but that will create a URL structure for those custom Posts that I don’t want?

  3. There is a way to do this using a template override.

    1. Create a folder in your active theme called ‘advanced-sidebar-menu’
    2. Inside the folder create a new file ‘page_list.php’
    3. Add the following code to that file
    4. Select the “Include highest level parent in accordion” option in the widget
    <?php
$menu        = Advanced_Sidebar_Menu_Menus_Page::get_current();
$list_pages  = Advanced_Sidebar_Menu_List_Pages::factory( $menu );
$child_pages = $list_pages->get_child_pages( $menu->get_top_parent_id(), true );
$content     = '';
$widget_args = $menu->get_widget_args();

$menu->title();

$content .= '<style>#' . $widget_args['widget_id'] . ' .parent-sidebar-menu{margin-bottom:0 !important;}</style>';

//Display parent page

$ids         = get_posts( array(
   'post_type'   => $menu->get_post_type(),
   'numberposts' => 100,
   'fields'      => 'ids',
   'orderby'     => $menu->get_order_by(),
   'post_parent' => 0,
) );
$parent_args = $list_pages->get_args( 'parent' );
$list_args   = $list_pages->get_args( 'display-all' );
foreach ( $ids as $_page_id ) {
   $content                .= '<ul class="parent-sidebar-menu" >';
   $parent_args['include'] = $_page_id;
   $content                .= wp_list_pages( $parent_args );

   $child_pages = $list_pages->get_child_pages( $_page_id, true );
   if ( ! empty( $child_pages ) ) {
      $content               .= '<ul class="child-sidebar-menu">';
      $list_args['child_of'] = $_page_id;
      $content               .= wp_list_pages( $list_args );
      $content               .= '</ul><!-- End .child-sidebar-menu -->';
   }

   $content .= '</li></ul><!-- End .parent-sidebar-menu -->';
}


return $content;

  4. Hi Matt,

    Yep that seems to have worked perfectly.  I can make any extra tweaks from there but I would think that would be a useful option to include in the base code rather than require a plugin override.

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