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1. CarnageAsada
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Greetings all - first time poster. I've customized a handful of sites using Bblog and MT previously and am taking a stab at WordPress. Really like what I've seen so far but I'm trying to figure out how to do the following:

   I have a navigational structure for a website that looks like the example below:

   I. HOME
   II. SECTION I
   ----- A. SubNav I:1
   ---------- 1. SubNav I:1:A
   ---------- 2. SubNav I:1:B
   ----- B. SubNav I:2
   III. SECTION II
   ----- A. SubNav II:1
   ----- B. SubNav II:2

   Basically, a combination of sub-navigation. What I'm trying to do is create a dynamic menu allowing the user to access the various sub-sections functioning almost identically to the menu seen here:

   http://www.mattkruse.com/javascript/mktree/

   You'll notice when you click "Calendars/" in that example menu, it doesn't go to a "Calendars/" page - one may not even exist. It merely expands the sub-sections of Calendar so you can navigate directly to a sub-section. I want to do something similar dynamically in WP but I'm not sure how to organize the site to manage this. I.E. I can organize the site into Main Pages, Sub-Pages, and Sub-Sub-Pages, but is there a way to dynamically generate a menu based on the pages / sub-pages where the parent page doesn't link to an actual page but, rather, just expands the sub-navigation below it on a list? In MT, you'd do it using folders and pages within folders. I'm just trying to figure out the WP equivalent. Thanks in advance for the help.

2. Ivovic
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   there's no wordpress equivalent for this, unfortunately...

   if your script requires a basic unordered list and that's it, then you won't be able to dynamically generate this using a built-in wordpress function without having the top level link to something.

   However, with PHP anything is possible, and so there's definitely going to be a way for you to code around this by generating your own list of pages and sub-pages using a combination of wordpress functions and your own little php gems.

   It's going to depend largely on your comfort-level with PHP.

3. CarnageAsada
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks for the reply, Ivovic!

   That's what I thought but figured it couldn't hurt to ask. I'm not a php guru at the present, but have been coding in other languages for a while so I can get around in it. I started to hack something together using Rob Schumann's "Fold Page List' plug-in as a starting point.

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