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Manually adding to a menu

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Requested: 9 months and 4 weeks ago

Most of our site works perfectly with dynamic menus using your plugin, however I’d like to manually add a menu item to a couple of areas.
Is it possible to add an item in the structure without having to manually build a new menu?

Thanks in advance.

  1. Hi Daisy,

    The most straightforward way to accomplish this would be to:

    1. Add the menu items to all menus.
    2. Hide the menu items via custom CSS.
    3. Show the menu items on areas you want via CSS.

    For example lets say we have a menu item with the id of 8 , you would hide it via the following CSS:

    Then in an area which has a unique body class (for example page-home), you could show the menu item like so:

    Hope this helps!

    Mat Lipe

     

     

  2. Thanks for the response, perhaps more info will help.

    We have a well structured site and I want to add a menu link from deep in the structure in one area to a page deep in the structure in a different area. Obviously the content is in a different part of the site, so the dynamic menu won’t add it.

    In your response 1) adding the item to the menu is exactly what I want to do, but I’d like to add to the 5th tier of the menu.

     

     

  3. Hi Daisy,

    The only way to add an item from a different area/structure is to use the Navigation Menu widget with a custom menu.

    Otherwise, the dynamically generated Page widget relies on a the parent/child hierarchy to generate the menu and is not able to pull items from other hierarchy.

    Have a great weekend!

    Mat Lipe

  4. Hi Daisy,

    I forgot to mention earlier, there is a way to add a page to a structure which links to another area of the site:

    1. Install and activate the “Page Links To” plugin.
    2. Create a new page titled whatever you would like and assign it’s parent page to where you would like it to show up.
    3. Using the “Page Links To” settings, assign “A custom URL” to point to another area/page in your site (really anywhere you like).

    This will add a page into your dynamic menu structure which points to another location which is not related to the pages in the menu.

    Have a great night!

    Mat Lipe

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