wizzud

Using my suggestion should have resulted in a shortcode equivalent of

[cmwizard menu=329 branch=current start_at="1"/]

However, seeing as you only have 2 levels in your menu, it makes no difference because the parent of a root level item is still that root level item. And with a setting of depth 2, in a 2-level menu, CMW will show both levels.

Using your settings, given that one branch of menu #329 looks like…

• Page A (at root level, level 1)

• subpage 1 (at level 2, immediate child of Page A)
• subpage 2 (at level 2, immediate child of Page A)

…then if Page A is current, CMW should show 2 levels of #329, starting with Page A‘s parent (there isn’t one so it uses Page A), ie. Page A, subpage 1 & subpage 2.
If subpage 1 is current, CMW should show 2 levels of #329, starting with subpage 1‘s parent (Page A), ie. Page A, subpage 1 & subpage 2. Likewise if subpage 2 is current.

My understanding of your requirement is that CMW should show Page A, subpage 1 & subpage 2 – and only those items – if any one of those 3 pages is the current page?
Does the CMW widget Assist produce the output you are after, using the settings you have given?

Let me put it this way :

IF you have a custom menu defined
AND you now want to show, somewhere on a page or in a sidebar, a menu that (for example) only contains the top level items of that custom menu
THEN Yes, CMW will do that for you.

CMW does not affect any other menus, it merely filters the items of its own configured custom menu according to the options set (either in the widget or the shortcode).

If you need CMW to change the behaviour of something that is already producing menus throughout your site, then No, it won’t/can’t do that.

Setting to CMW to only (and always) show the top level items of a custom menu simply requires you to select the custom menu, and set For Depth=1 in the Secondary Filter section (assuming you leave all other settings alone, ie. unchanged from their default).

Placing CMW in a sidebar : just create an instance of the widget in the appropriate widget area.

Placing CMW within a post’s content : use the CMW shortcode (which you can produce using a widget instance’s Assist, and copy-paste into content).

Good.

You might find this support thread useful?

Branch = Current Item, For Depth = 2 (ie. current item + immediate children); include Branch Ancestors to Level 1 (root), and Level 2 and above.

Shortcode resembles :

[cmwizard menu=NN branch=current depth=2 ancestors=1 include_level="2-"/]

Yes.

Equivalent shortcode resembles…

[cmwizard menu=N branch=current depth=1 include_level="1" siblings=1/]

If you want the root items displayed even when the current page is not one of the pages contained within the menu then use an Alternative.

Equivalent shortcode resembles…

[cmwizard menu=N branch=current depth=1 include_level="1" siblings=1 alternative="no-current,menu"]depth=1[/cmwizard]

If I look at the sidebar menu on the Facilities Department page, there are a number of items – Administration, Business Office, Human Resources – which have links like .../?page_id=nnnn instead of fancy links. Clicking any one of those 3 sidebar links gets me to a page that doesn’t have a sidebar (such as the Business Office page you mention).

May I suggest that you modify those links in your menu structure so that the actual link is a fancy URL, not a ?page_id URL, and see if that solves your problem?

I’m sorry but No. CMW only filters existing menu items, it does not modify them.

If it were me, I would look at this slightly differently …
You are currently trying to modify a custom menu item’s target URL on-the-fly (ie. at runtime) so as to get the same menu item to load a different page/post depending on the date.
However, I would call one page and get that page to include different content (ie. another post) depending on the date.

For example :
Let’s assume that the slugs of your daily lessons are something along the lines of daily-lesson-1, daily-lesson-2, daily-lesson-3, etc, where the number is the day-of-the-year (one-based, 1 thru 366 – leap year?).
Using plugins Post Snippets and Include (there are no doubt other alternatives available!)…
– set up a new page, “Today’s Lesson”
– add that page to your menu
– set up a Post Snippet as a shortcode, with PHP code that constructs and echoes an Include shortcode to bring in the relevant daily lesson
– put the Post Snippet shortcode into the Today’s Lesson page, along with whatever other text you might want, such as “Here’s today’s lesson…”

You might call the Post Snippet todayslesson, and the PHP code could be something like
echo '[include slug="daily-lesson-' . (date('z') + 1) . '"/]';
with the ‘Shortcode’ and ‘PHP Code’ checkboxes checked.
The content of the Today’s Lesson page might then be

Here's today's lesson...
[todayslesson/]
See you tomorrow!

I hope that helps.

Can you set start_at=”2″ (assuming that your sub-pages are at level 2)?