Title: Dynamic sub-navigation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Dynamic sub-navigation

 *  Resolved [nateeanes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nateeanes/)
 * (@nateeanes)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-sub-navigation/)
 * Hi All,
    I am building a site using WordPress as a CMS (it only has pages, no
   posts). It’s in development now at [http://nugonutrition.com/wp/](http://nugonutrition.com/wp/).
   I’ve got a few questions:
 * 1) If you go to “nutrition info” or “about us” on the site, you’ll see a left-
   hand column that’s currently empty; this will be populated with sub-nav links
   which will change depending what area of the site you’re looking at. I know one
   way to do this would be to make several different page templates and hard-code
   the appropriate sub-nav items into the left column of each one; however, is there
   a way to do this dynamically, such that if I add a page to a section or change
   a page’s title, the sub-nav will automatically update to reflect this? Is there
   a specific plug-in that might do this?
 * 2) How do I change the URL strings for pages, so that instead of, for instance,
   having “page_id=2” or something like that, I can use customized page name rather
   than an ID number?
 * 3) What is the code to call a specific page to a particular place on your site’s
   Index template page? On my site’s homepage (Index template), I want to have 2-
   3 sections that can be updated automatically, but how do I get the template to
   call those pages to the right spots?
 * Thanks!
    Nate

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