Sidebar help

You might want to try the “Fold Page List” plugin. It’ll help a lot, if I’m understanding what you’re trying to do. (I might not, but I think I am.)

I tried the Fold Page List plugin, but it brings in all the pages. The code I had before only brings in the parents/children of the page parent I select.

I’m not sure what you mean? The Fold Page List plugin will call in all pages of the sidebar, but fold out the parent of whatever child you’re on. The rest will just show the parent.

So, if you had a bunch of bookmarks like:

Animals
– cows
– chickens
– pigs
Vegetables
– corn
– peas

If you were on “Pigs”, then the “Animals” list would be open, but Veggies wouldn’t.

Unless you didn’t edit your stylesheet properly? The Fold Page List plugin sets the IDs and classes of the lists to match what page you’re on – then you just use your stylesheet to format it properly. So, if you left it as-is, without editing your stylesheet, then yeah – it’d list *everything*, because that’s the default.

I see.

Still, Fold Page List would do this – it’s just a matter of editing your stylesheet. FPL provides the classes and ID’s you need to make this happen.

You’d just set the regular lists to “display:none;”, and set the “current page” class lists to “display:block;” in your stylesheet. Then whatever page you were on, the parent and child would be the only ones shown – the regular ones wouldn’t show up at all.

No – you want to set the LI to display:none.

So if your code outputs like this:

<ul>
<li class="current_page">Link 1</li>
 <ul> //subnav here
 <li>sublink</li>
 </ul>

<li>Link 2</li>
 <ul> //subnav here
 <li>sublink</li>
 </ul>
</ul>

you’d set your stylesheet like so:

#sidebar li {
display:none;
}

#sidebar ul li.current_page {
display:block;
}

That will set all the LI’s in your sidebar as “invisible” by default. But the *second* call sets the LIs with the class of “current_page” to visible.

Sublinks will follow suit with the parent LI – so regular sublinks will also be gone, but the ones under “current_page” will appear.

`<li class=”current_page”>

<?php wswwpx_fold_page_list (‘sort_column=menu_order&’. $arglist); ?>`

No, this is not how you do it.

You activate the plugin, and then you need to go into your sidebar.php file and put in:

<?php wswwpx_fold_page_list ('sort_column=menu_order&'. $arglist); ?>

You might have to double-check that with the documentation – they tell you how to set up the sidebar using the plugin. I’m telling you from memory, so I may be forgetting something – so read the documentation on how to install and use.

Once you get it installed and implemented on your site, then view your source code on the page, and check what classes are added to the current page. As I said, I’m telling you form memory – but I *believe* the ID’s (or classes – you have to check which it uses) are “current_page” and “current_page_parent”.

After you’ve found that out, *Then* do your CSS styling to match, use the above example as a reference.

li.sidebox li#pagenav li.page_item {
display:none;
}

li.sidebox li#pagenav li.current_page_item {
display:block;
}

Add that to the bottom of your stylesheet.

It gives the parent, but no none of the children associated with it.

I don’t see any children.

Your sidebar is made up of parent li’s – none with a corresponding “child”. What is a child of what? And if that’s how it’s supposed to be, do you have it set up that way in your admin panel? It’s all based off of how you have it set up in your admin area. For example, if I have a category of “Socks”, and I want to add a subcategory of “red socks” to it, I create the category and make sure the proper” category parent” is selected. When I do that, I see the tree in my admin panel – it’ll look like so:

1 Socks
– 2 red socks

Does yours look like that? because form what I see here, I’m *guessing* you’re setup in your admin panel looksl ike this:

1 Socks
2 red socks

Let me know if I’m guessing wrong.