Is it possible to create variable navigation menus

  • bigvibes

    (@bigvibes)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    Does anyone know of a plugin that can solve my problem or is it possible to have development work to do this… I have a website that has multiple topics, each of which I’d like to have a different navigation bar configuration for. e.g.:

    Topic A: dogs
    Topic B: cats
    Topic C: snakes

    On the homepage I’d like to have the above three topics listed on the main navigation bar and About us, Contact, Privacy Policy, etc on the top navigation bar.

    When a user clicks on any of the categories, say, cats, that then takes them to articles in that category… here I’d like to have the navigation bar totally change from dogs-cats-snakes to breed A, breed B, breed C on the main navigation bar so that it just shows cat breeds (nothing about dogs) and then I’d like the top navigation bar to then have dogs-cats-snakes and the About Us, Contact, Privacy Policy move down to the footer navigation.

    Then on each of the other categories the main navigation bar changes to the respective breeds for each animal (top and footer navbars stay the same as with cats).

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  • RossMitchell

    (@rossmitchell)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    Yes I have done this.
    In one case I had a different menu for each category, this works when the content is organised around posts. In another case the menu was different for each user role, but in your case you would want to use custom page templates, this will work for a page based content.

    All of these require using a child theme, details here:
    creating a child theme http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

    Create your menus in your functions.php of your child theme.
    Copy the page or category template files from the parent theme and customise them to used the distinct menus.

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