Using plugin on Category page

  • Resolved jadtaylor

    (@jadtaylor)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    Is it possible to use this plugin on a category page while having it pull the child pages from a different, non-category, menu section?

    For example, our top-level “Events” menu redirects to the “Events” category posts archive, not a page. However, we would like for the plugin to display the child pages for original “Events” menu, which currently are “Calendar,” “The Gathering,” and “Meal Sign Up.”

    See link: http://clemsonumc.org/category/events/

    Thanks for your thoughts and help on this. ASM is consistently one of the best and most helpful plugins we use.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-sidebar-menu/

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  • Plugin Author Mat Lipe

    (@mat-lipe)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Hi jadtaylor,

    There is currently no built in way to accomplish this. However the plugin is highly extendable and this could be achieved by creating an add-on plugin or tapping into the filters via your theme’s functions.php file.

    Hope this helps.

    Cheers.

    Thread Starter jadtaylor

    (@jadtaylor)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for such a quick response Mat.

    Do you have any suggestions for resources to learn about using filters or creating an add-on plugin?

    And any hope that this function might be included in future updates? I’m sure you have much on your plate, so I understand if not.

    Plugin Author Mat Lipe

    (@mat-lipe)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Hi jadtaylor,

    Here is a post that may help you get started.
    http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-beginners-guide-to-wordpress-actions-and-filters/

    There are many other good tutorials on that site.

    Sadly, there is not much for official documentation for this plugin. It is on my ever growing to-do list.

    Most likely the filters you want to work with will be located on the /wp-content/plugins/advanced-sidebar-menu/widgets/page.widget.php file.

    As far as adding this to a future release, I would say it is a long short. When you started breaking away from the standard page structure this plugin starts to loose its “right out of the box” use. I would like to keep it simple to use and easily extendable for those interested in writing addons.

    If you do find you really want this feature, I do take contract work of this nature. Otherwise, I’m sure any intermediate level WordPress programmer can build an addo-on for you.

    Cheers

    Thread Starter jadtaylor

    (@jadtaylor)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Wonderful. Thanks Mat!

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