{"id":850588,"date":"2008-09-05T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/dropdown-menus\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T02:05:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T02:05:19","slug":"dropdown-menus","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/dropdown-menus\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropdown menus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine this gets aired often, because there are lots of questions and half-solutions on the forums and with plugins: Ability to show and hide page children in page menus of a web site in the web browser (I am not talking aobut hiding them from the backend, which is well supported via wp_list_pages). For those of us who use WP as a CMS this is extremely important! I suggest:<\/p>\n<p>* Ability to specify flyout menus (in horizantal menus these would be drop-down)<br \/>\n* Ability to create show and hide sub-categories on vertical menus (Click on a page link and it&#8217;s children appear below).<br \/>\n* This functionality could be managed from Settings where you could chose various optiosn:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Auto show\/hide page children on click<br \/>\n&#8211; Insert shown children inline<br \/>\n&#8211; Show children in flyout (drop-down)<br \/>\n&#8211; Keep children visible on subpages of same parent (this provides a mini-menu)<br \/>\n&#8211; Children are shown by hover on parent<br \/>\n&#8211; Children are shown by click on parent (second clic opens parent page)<br \/>\n&#8211; Children are only shown on pages of same parent.<\/p>\n<p>etc.<\/p>\n<p>I realize there are various plugins out there, but they are all designed with the horizontal drop-down in mind and I also find them somewhat difficult to custumize, being more of a cut-and-paster and modifier than a coder. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-850588","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/850588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/850588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}