Title: Using plugin on Category page
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Using plugin on Category page

 *  Resolved [jadtaylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jadtaylor/)
 * (@jadtaylor)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-plugin-on-category-page/)
 * Is it possible to use this plugin on a category page while having it pull the
   child pages from a different, non-category, menu section?
 * For example, our top-level “Events” menu redirects to the “Events” category posts
   archive, not a page. However, we would like for the plugin to display the child
   pages for original “Events” menu, which currently are “Calendar,” “The Gathering,”
   and “Meal Sign Up.”
 * See link: [http://clemsonumc.org/category/events/](http://clemsonumc.org/category/events/)
 * Thanks for your thoughts and help on this. ASM is consistently one of the best
   and most helpful plugins we use.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-sidebar-menu/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-sidebar-menu/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mat Lipe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mat-lipe/)
 * (@mat-lipe)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-plugin-on-category-page/#post-3795885)
 * Hi jadtaylor,
 * There is currently no built in way to accomplish this. However the plugin is 
   highly extendable and this could be achieved by creating an add-on plugin or 
   tapping into the filters via your theme’s functions.php file.
 * Hope this helps.
 * Cheers.
 *  Thread Starter [jadtaylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jadtaylor/)
 * (@jadtaylor)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-plugin-on-category-page/#post-3795947)
 * Thanks for such a quick response Mat.
 * Do you have any suggestions for resources to learn about using filters or creating
   an add-on plugin?
 * And any hope that this function might be included in future updates? I’m sure
   you have much on your plate, so I understand if not.
 *  Plugin Author [Mat Lipe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mat-lipe/)
 * (@mat-lipe)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-plugin-on-category-page/#post-3795976)
 * Hi jadtaylor,
 * Here is a post that may help you get started.
    [http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-beginners-guide-to-wordpress-actions-and-filters/](http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-beginners-guide-to-wordpress-actions-and-filters/)
 * There are many other good tutorials on that site.
 * Sadly, there is not much for official documentation for this plugin. It is on
   my ever growing to-do list.
 * Most likely the filters you want to work with will be located on the /wp-content/
   plugins/advanced-sidebar-menu/widgets/page.widget.php file.
 * As far as adding this to a future release, I would say it is a long short. When
   you started breaking away from the standard page structure this plugin starts
   to loose its “right out of the box” use. I would like to keep it simple to use
   and easily extendable for those interested in writing addons.
 * If you do find you really want this feature, I do take contract work of this 
   nature. Otherwise, I’m sure any intermediate level WordPress programmer can build
   an addo-on for you.
 * Cheers
 *  Thread Starter [jadtaylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jadtaylor/)
 * (@jadtaylor)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-plugin-on-category-page/#post-3796135)
 * Wonderful. Thanks Mat!

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 * [category](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/category/)
 * [child](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child/)
 * [page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/page/)

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 * Last reply from: [jadtaylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jadtaylor/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-plugin-on-category-page/#post-3796135)
 * Status: resolved