Different sidebar widgets/navigation for each section

  • MrPurplz

    (@mrpurplz)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m really looking for a bit of architecture help. I’m porting a website over from Drupal to WordPress so I can really structure the internals any way I want.

    The website has three main sections, with links going to each in the main navigation section.

    Each section has several subsections (pages) of text, some with further subsections.

    Basically what I’m looking to do is have the sidebar widgets display a link to each post/page from within that section.

    I.e the ‘Services for you’ section will have a sidebar with links to each page within that section.

    I’ve currently structured this as pages, with each sub page using that one as inherited, but I’m open to using posts/categories.

    The main issues I have are:

    1) I need a different navigation/hierarchy widget to display in the sidebar dependant on what section they are in. The sections can either be accessed by a main nav menu, or just direct links. These won’t change/be added to so it doesn’t really matter how it’s done.

    2) The best way to actually display this sidebar menu? Make navigation menus? Find a widget?

    I’m using the Suffusion theme if that’s relevant.

    Any suggestions would be massively appreciated

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  • bhonn

    (@bhonn)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Hi MrPurplz,

    I like using a plugin because I like quick and simple setup. Here are a couple of options I have used on different sites.

    • Flexi Pages Widget (free plugin) for links of parent and sub pages. Easy to set up.
    • UberMenu (paid plugin) more complex but easier to style.

    There are lots of other plugins as a search of sub-pages on the plugin section shows.

    Someone else may have suggestions for doing it within the theme itself.

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