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1. Matthew Trust
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello,

   I have spent the past few hours trying to solve a seemingly very simple problem, but to no avail. I have a left sidebar on my page that consists of an unordered list that I'm using for navigational purposes (these are my "pages" in WordPress-speak). I am using the following code to call my left sidebar:

   <div id="sidebar-left">
        <ul>
           <li>
           <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Home</a></li>
   	<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&depth=0'); ?>
        </ul>
   </div>

   Currently, this code makes my list to appear as follows:
   Parent Page
   Parent Page
   Child Page
   Child Page
   Child Page
   Parent Page
   Child Page
   Child Page
   Parent Page
   (etc...you get the idea)

   I have lots of child pages within the parents and want to hide these on my main page, except for when my audience clicks on one of the parents. It should look as follows, assuming the second parent has been clicked:

   Parent
   Parent
   Child
   Child
   Child
   Parent
   Parent
   (etc.)

   I've tried changing the "depth" field to "1", but all this does is permanently hide all the child pages (which makes me wonder, why bother to include child or sub-pages at all if they're simply going to disappear if depth is 1). I also tried changing the CSS around, but I must've not done something right because it didn't work. Again, I want the list of child pages to be available only when the parent page is displayed.

   Thanks!!

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Try googling on "jQuery accordion menu".

3. Matthew Trust
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks Esmi, but isn't there a simpler way to do this without downloading any widgets? I installed the jquery accordion menu plug-in but it's not working correctly since my theme "doesn't support menus."

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   It's normally something that is built into a theme. So you'd need to edit your theme to suit.

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