Sort menu items to top based on category

Hi Dion,

There are 2 approaches to sorting specific items to the top:

Change order to “Page Order”.

This will allow you to place items in whatever order you would like using the page attributes. You may also use the Simple Page Ordering plugin if you would like to using drag sorting.

The upside is you can put pages in whatever order you like. The downside is you have to manually adjust orders as ordering automatically by “Page Title” will no longer be available.

Using a filter.

If your pages or post type support categories, you may use the id of category to automatically move assigned pages to the top of the menu by adding the following filter to your active theme’s functions.php file and changing “66382” to your category’s id:

function asm_move_category_items_to_top( array $pages ) { $top_category = 66382; usort( $pages, function( $a, $b ) use ( $top_category ) { if ( has_term( $top_category, 'category', $a ) ) { return -1; } if ( has_term( $top_category, 'category', $b ) ) { return 1; } return strcasecmp( $a->post_title, $b->post_title ); }); return $pages; } add_filter( 'advanced-sidebar-menu/list-pages/first-level-child-pages', 'asm_move_category_items_to_top' ); add_filter( 'advanced-sidebar-menu/list-pages/grandchild-pages', 'asm_move_category_items_to_top' );

If your pages do not support categories you may add support with the following filter:

add_action( 'init', function(){ register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'category', 'page' ); });

Have a great day!

Hi Dion,

It appears you are using a move-to-top custom taxonomy. If you change the provided filter to use move-to-top instead of category it should work as expected.

function asm_move_category_items_to_top( array $pages ) { $top_category = 443; usort( $pages, function( $a, $b ) use ( $top_category ) { if ( has_term( $top_category, 'move-to-top', $a ) ) { return -1; } if ( has_term( $top_category, 'move-to-top', $b ) ) { return 1; } return strcasecmp( $a->post_title, $b->post_title ); }); return $pages; } add_filter( 'advanced-sidebar-menu/list-pages/first-level-child-pages', 'asm_move_category_items_to_top' ); add_filter( 'advanced-sidebar-menu/list-pages/grandchild-pages', 'asm_move_category_items_to_top' );

Have a great day!