Sub pages

Try search: “fold page menu” and similar keywords.

I found the fold page menu one I think and the plugin page didn’t exist anymore.

Certain themes have them by default. The best one I’ve seen is K2 It puts your main pages up top and once your click it, it shows the subpages in the sidebar of that page. That is if your willing to change your theme. I’ve also seen others in the codex’s theme directory that do it exactly as you’ve listed but I can’t remember which one’s. You could do some cutting and pasting into your theme if you good at that kind of stuff. I haven’t tried it.

Just use this code:

<?php wp_list_pages(‘sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&depth=1’ ); ?>

It will only show the first top level (depth=1)

Check out these: https://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/cat/wp-plugins/30/ and https://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/cat/wp-plugins/31/ and see them doing a fine job at my site. ??

(Note that I modified both of them in order not to create links to the currently displayed page.)

Ok, I got it to work but how do you get the hidden pages to open up?

I had success achieving this without a plug in (sorry plugin makers). What I did is download an existing theme that had this sort of set up (in this case K2) and either use it or copy the code (which I did). It worked quite well for me.