Different vertical menus for each page

  • Hi All,

    I have a consistent horizontal menu but I would like to create different custom vertical menus for each page. So for example, when on the home page I want options of page H,I and J on the vertical menu, when on the about page I want options of X, Y and Z on the vertical menu.

    Does anyone know of a good plugin for this? I have been looking at Y Tree Menu (https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/yt-tree-menu/screenshots/) but I’m not sure if this is the best one to use for this.

    Any advice would be gratefully received!

    Thanks!
    Jen

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  • If you can’t find a plugin…

    If you have a limited number of menus that you want to create on a few specific pages you should be able to add page specific menus to your theme and manage them from wp-admin->Appearance->Menus. By “should be able to”, I mean that I haven’t actually tried it but I can’t think of any reason it wouldn’t work. That should be relatively easy.

    More dynamically created menus could be tougher but helping with that would take more information about what you want to do.

    The easiest solution is to set the menu_order appropriately for all of your nested Pages, and then to call wp_list_pages(), using the child_of array parameter.

    ^^^ Yeah, that’s a good idea. ^^^

    Thread Starter jen0148

    (@jen0148)

    Thanks for the suggestions, I couldn’t see how I could set different menus for each page in the menu in the menus area but I did find a plugin called Custom Page Menus which so far seems to do the job well.

    Thanks Chip and Apljdi!

    You can’t create per page menus via the menu control panel, you’d have to edit theme files.

    @apljdi,

    And how would one display a specific menu within a theme if the menu isn’t assigned specifically to a theme location?

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