Getting Vertical Submenus for Horizontal Top Menus

Hi,

I’m having a terrible time trying to get my menus to work.

I have four top level pages on the horizontal menu bar, with one of them being the static page Home and another the static page: “Blog Central”. I have a lot of pages lower in the page hierarchy for different blog pages. (I’m using pages and not categories).

All I want is for when the user clicks on Blog Central, the submenus below it immediately appear, dropping down vertically from the Blog Central menu item in the header. Instead, all it does is go to the Blog Central page, without showing any of the menu options for lower hierarchy pages.

For example, a submenu below Blog Central is called Book Reviews. Another submenu below Book Reviews has 11 different genres for book reviews.

I tried using the Custom Menu widget, creating a large new menu of menu items and submenu items. I couldn’t find a place to put this at the top of the header. Instead, it would only allow me to put it in the sidebar. Once in the sidebar, all the menu items appeared in the sidebar, including all the submenu items. I had about 24 pages listed in the sidebar. That’s not what I want. I don’t want the submenu pages to show unless the user clicks on the tab of the menu item that the submenu is under.

I also tried the Dropdown Menu Widget, but didn’t have any luck with that either.

Any ideas anybody?

David Craig