clarer1

Can someone advise me about this please?

Can someone advise me about this please?

Thanks for your help. I’d wondered if categories would be involved. What I’m after isn’t quite that straightforward so I need to refine it more.

What I’ll have are some pages:
1. how can I use a stethoscope with behind-the-ear hearing aids?
2. how can I use a stethoscope with completely-in-canal hearing aids?
and so on.

Then some articles (could be posts or pages):
A. do I need an amplified stethoscope?
B. using adapted earpieces for stethoscopes
C. using headphones with stethoscopes
D. using direct audio input with stethscopes
and so on.

My menu is to pages, not to posts. A top level page is stethoscopes, child level are 1, 2 & so on.

Page 1 needs to show articles A, C & D
Page 2, articles A, B & C

Several things I’m not sure about doing this with categories:

To get the page I need, I think I’d need a way of combining categories. I’d have categories stethoscope, behind-the-ear, completely-in-canal etc and need a page that shows eg categorised stethoscope AND behind-the-ear. Is that possible?

And then, how do I direct people to the page? I have a navigation bar at the top of the page with tabs to top-level pages and it drops down to show child pages. I also have Pages widget in the side bar. But for this, I’d need a top-level Stethoscopes page. But the pages with several articles on aren’t top-level. They’re probably 2nd level. So I don’t want links to them to show until you’re on the top-level Stethoscopes page.

Is there a more straightforward way?

Is there a way to write a page and insert something like specific links that will call up the teasers for each article I want?

I’m struggling to explain what I’m after and hope it’s a bit more clear now.

Clare

For anyone looking for the same thing, I’ve found a theme that does this. dket3‘s own Pages widget has an option to do just this.

And it has a drop-down menu bar.:)

For anyone else looking for the same thing, I’ve found the theme dkret3. It has drop-down menus and you can set how deep to go.

The theme’s Pages widget is excellent too. You can choose not to have the child pages showing, then when you move to a page with child pages, the list opens up to show that page’s children too.

Makes for clear and easy navigation.

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Does anyone know a plugin that will make these navigation menus for me?
Thanks.

Thanks for your quick response.
That definitely helped: I’ve now got the grandchild pages appearing in the drop down. But not right yet:
– some of them overlap so they aren’t all visible
– it isn’t heirarchical (sp?). The child and grandchild pages are in the same block so there’s no indication of which generation they are, nor which child the grandchildren belong to.