Managing the Menu

carthagod
May 15, 2012 at 7:46 am #4550

Hello,

I am struggling to do what I want with the WP menu. I want WP to automatically add child pages to a top level page (for this I use the pluggin Gekka submenu), and I want to make a second level menu element non clickable. For example if I have :

About Us

—->Who we are

—->Where we come from

—->History

>Early days

>Present

—->Statistics

I want to make the element “History” non clickable. For this I can use custom links and put # instead of an URL. The problem if I use this is that I cannot define anymore the order of my links : if all the pages “Who we are”, “Where we come from” and “Statistics” are automatically added thanks to Gekka Submenu while “History” is in fact a custom link, my menu will look like this :

About Us

—->Who we are

—->Where we come from

—->Statistics

—->History

>Early days

>Present

And I want to decide of the order of menu elements !

Anyone knows how to solve this ?

Thanks,

Thomas

Anonymous
May 15, 2012 at 11:34 am #28511

For non clickable menu items, you have to create custom menu and add each page and sub pages to it. It is a time consuming task, but it gives you more control over menu items.

PS: You cannot add a blank menu item (no URL) in your custom menu, but you can delete the URL of a menu item and make it non clickable once it is added to the menu.

How to create custom menus in WordPress – http://blog.kjodle.net/2011/08/25/how-to-create-and-use-custom-menus-in-wordpress/

carthagod
May 15, 2012 at 12:59 pm #28512

Yes, this is what I already do. However I’m looking for an automatic solution, I want pages to be added automatically in the menu and not do it manually.

John McCubbin
May 15, 2012 at 1:12 pm #28513

I don’t thing there is any way to do this you will just have to do it manually.

carthagod
May 15, 2012 at 3:18 pm #28514

Don’t like that ! Nobody else could have a clue ?

Anonymous
May 15, 2012 at 4:07 pm #28515

It is a “Custom menu.” So, you alone have to add things to it!

carthagod
May 15, 2012 at 4:35 pm #28516

Yep it’s a way of looking at things :-). Thought WP has improved its menu features I feel that some obvious features are still missing…

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Kenneth John Odle
May 16, 2012 at 11:07 pm #28517

Thought WP has improved its menu features I feel that some obvious features are still missing…

Well, 99.9% of WP users don’t really want this, which is why it’s not configured that way. We like having the control.

Have you tried looking for a plugin that will accomplish this?

Anonymous
May 17, 2012 at 3:17 am #28518

I don’t know if it works, but try checking Automatically add new top-level pages

in custom menu just below the Menu Name.