http://wordpress.org/support/topic/364851?replies=2
is a thread currently going on about using conditional sidebars, maybe that is a route you’d like to take?
Or something like this from my notes:
For use in sidebar, display only top level Pages, but when viewing a Page that has children (or is a child) show only children of that parent
When visiting main page, all top level pages are listed in the sidebar.
When click on a top level page with no children, all top level pages are listed.
When click on a top level page with children, just the children pages are listed.
When click on a children page, just the children of that parent are listed.
<?php
$output = wp_list_pages('echo=0&depth=1&title_li=<h2>Top Level Pages </h2>' );
if (is_page( )) {
$page = $post->ID;
if ($post->post_parent) {
$page = $post->post_parent;
}
$children=wp_list_pages( 'echo=0&child_of=' . $page . '&title_li=' );
if ($children) {
$output = wp_list_pages ('echo=0&child_of=' . $page . '&title_li=<h2>Child Pages</h2>');
}
}
echo $output;
?>
MichaelH,
Do you have a live sample that I can see?
If you don’t want to put that in your sidebar.php, consider downloading and installing Otto’s PHP Code Widget.
Then put this in one of those widgets:
<?php
global $post;
$output = wp_list_pages('echo=0&depth=1&title_li=<h2>Top Level Pages </h2>' );
if (is_page( )) {
$page = $post->ID;
if ($post->post_parent) {
$page = $post->post_parent;
}
$children=wp_list_pages( 'echo=0&child_of=' . $page . '&title_li=' );
if ($children) {
$output = wp_list_pages ('echo=0&child_of=' . $page . '&title_li=<h2>Child Pages</h2>');
}
}
echo $output;
?>
It would be very useful if this sort of menu structure would be available with WordPress’ new drag-and-drop menu admin system. Right now I only see child pages display as drop-downs. This puts every page available on every page. That is not always the best system.
I want different menus on different pages as well, I’ve just solved it with the new nav_menus and a little bit of theme tweaking. It’s worked out nicely as I won’t have to fiddle with the theme to add a new page and menu combination.
In the theme I have:
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( ‘container’ => ‘none’, ‘container_class’ => ‘menu-header’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’, ‘menu’ => get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘MenuName’, true) ) ); ?>
Then in the page I simply have a custom field called “MenuName”, which is set to match the name of the wordpress nav_menu I want used on that page.
If a custom MenuName is not defined then it will fall back to the nav_menu assigned to that theme_location.
