[mburk]

mburk

#2514

I just switched over to the graphene theme from another theme that uses categories and sub-categories in the navigation menu. Currently I have my parent pages in the main menu, and, using the custom menu feature, I have my categories in the secondary menu. I would like to add the child categories as drop-downs in the secondary menu. How do I do that without changing my categories to pages?

[Kenneth John Odle]

Kenneth John Odle

#20594

You can do that with your custom menu. Just add the categories and then move them to where you would like them to appear.

[mburk]

mburk

#20595

I don’t think you understood my problem.

My website is wowdogsofwar.com. The menu structure I have now is what I want to re-create.

If I add the categories to a custom menu in the graphene theme, I get a menu that looks like an unordered lis.

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member chat screenshots guides stories current news professions

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What I want is a menu containing my parent category where the drop down menu contains the child category.

The Professions category is a child category of Guides. Screenshots and Stories categories are child categories of Member Chat. Right now graphene does not recognize the child categories. If I re-structure everything to be PAGES instead of CATEGORIES the menus work. Right now the only way I see to get it to look like I want, is to re-write my content to be pages instead of categories.

There has got to be a simple coding solution to get graphene to recognize the child categories and put them in the drop-down list. I have not been able to do it using the custom menu interface.

[Kenneth John Odle]

Kenneth John Odle

#20596

You have to add the child categories on their own to the custom menu and then move them so they are under the parent category, but indented a bit. Check out my tutorial: http://blog.kjodle.net/2011/08/25/how-to-create-and-use-custom-menus-in-wordpress/

It will work, you just need to arrange things to be the way you want, and then remember to tell Graphene to use your custom menu in the “theme location” pane.

[mburk]

mburk

#20597

Ok, I followed your tutorial. The child categories do not show up in the custom menu as indented. They are the same level as the parent category.

[mburk]

mburk

#20598

Ok NVM. I see how you can move them.