Understanding navigation options

  • VitualBob

    (@vitualbob)


    15 years ago

    Hi,

    I’m new to WordPress and I’m just fiddling round with a basic install. I see the classic top-level menu can be linked to Categories but how do you deal with sub-categories? For example, if you have a top-level menu item called “Technology” and have over 100 posts under this category how can you create different subcategories (say 4-6) or link common topics together? Is this possible?

    Thanks

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  • Thread Starter VitualBob

    (@vitualbob)

    15 years ago

    This is also an example of submenus or subcategories I’m interested in:
    /categories/computers_technology/office_networking/index.html

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years ago

    That depends upon your theme.

    Thread Starter VitualBob

    (@vitualbob)

    15 years ago

    Oh OK – so its built into the Theme template or Dashboard?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years ago

    The theme.

    ixwa

    (@ixwa)

    15 years ago

    Yeah, and having just spent a week working very hard on this precise problem, just be warned that if you end up combining more than just categories and subcategories, but start using individual posts and pages for submenus etc, it can get really tricky.

    I ended up ditching the whole concept of using WP’s categories to drive a menu (which became a headache), and instead started working on a conditional, pages only version (and child pages). (Not using WP’s menu builder)

    Now I only use categories essentially as database tables, so that info can still be entered using WP’s dashboard, but the site is driven by its own logic.

    …that is, unless somebody has a better idea!

    This is info I found that helped my decision (notice how everyone asks about categories…it’s really difficult):
    http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/02/12/creating-two-tiered-conditional-navigation-in-wordpress/

    Thread Starter VitualBob

    (@vitualbob)

    15 years ago

    Thanks – that’s very informative. I’ll look into it.

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