How to efficiently show “sub” content?

  • Ok the titles pretty bland but i really need help here and my last title must have put people off…

    https://margaretdrinkall.co.uk/MD/
    This website is to be looking at an author and their books. All the usual boring stuff like about, contact info, blog etc. But i need some sort of sub section for the “about the books” section, where more links open up to special “sub-areas” for each book. I tried doing this using the “title bar” but it seems that isn’t possible in WP. Is there any possibility of some sort of directory tree approch? even though that doesn’t fit in with the context of the site very well?

    The long and short of it is i need multiple pages on each of these (currently fictional) books which doesn’t clog up the main menu by appearing untill absolutely necessary!

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  • Are they going to be pages or posts?

    If pages, then you can select the parent menu item from the drop down on the right when creating a page. So if you have an About menu item, you can select that as the “parent” and then that page will be listed within that menu item.

    If it’s a post, you can set up sub-categories by selecting a parent category when creating a new one.

    Thread Starter chriscrinkle

    (@chriscrinkle)

    Yes but setting the “parent” property does little exept change the font if you go three layers deep! that is what i’ve been doing and as you can see, the result is a mess!

    The only way to edit this would be via CSS styles. Perhaps even going into the code and replacing the text menu with drop down selects? I think in the codex there is some code for doing that, but I’m not sure where I came across it, sorry! But ya, would have to be done via stylesheets I think.

    Thread Starter chriscrinkle

    (@chriscrinkle)

    Lol i was hoping for something that didn’t require megabrainz(tm)! I’m not an expert as i should perhaps have mentioned!

    I may be able to put together some CSS for you at some point during the weekend, if you don’t mind waiting! I’ll try and see what I can do for you.

    Michael

    Ryan S

    (@ryan_accuwebhosting)

    You can show them as a drop down menus. There are so many plugins available.

    Thread Starter chriscrinkle

    (@chriscrinkle)

    Thats rather nice of you! But im not sure i will know how to implement it, i do know a little about css, but not that much. I have a feeling the menu system has something to do with the theme (open sourcerer), other themes have roll over menus quite like what i want, but the rest of their theme is pretty much unwanted!

    Thread Starter chriscrinkle

    (@chriscrinkle)

    @ ryan

    Yes there are plugins but you have to know how to use them. I followed the install instructions for ( https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wordpress-css-drop-down-menu/ ) but it ended up ruining the website even worse : https://margaretdrinkall.co.uk/MD/?page_id=2 : the “about the books” submenu is unreachable because of formatting problems!

    Ryan S

    (@ryan_accuwebhosting)

    If you face any issue.. let me know. I will install and set up the plugin for you.

    And yes, if there is anything else can happen with the help of codings, you can go for that.

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