[Support request] Display Child Menu Page Items on Parent Pages

[Nic]

Assume I have a store section of my site and each section has Amazon product items in their respective categories.

How can I have a customer click on parent category such as Wheels and it displays the subcategory items contained in both child menu pages of Aluminum and steel. As of now if you click on Wheels it will just take you to a blank Wheels page. I would rather the Wheels page display all products listed on the child pages.

CAR PARTS STORE
  Exhaust
  Wheels
    Aluminum
    Steel
  Exterior
    Roof Rack

[Leo]

Hi there,

I believe you are looking for something like this:
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/additional-menu-in-sidebar-active-item-opened/#post-1060386

If you are looking for the primary navigation, then replace:
.sidebar .secondary-navigation

with
.main-navigation

[Nic]

Sorry, I am new to working with wordpress but that does not to seem to accomplish what I am trying to do.

Say I click on ‘Wheels’ parent menu page from my example. I want the ‘Wheels” page to have on it Aluminum and Steel product items hopefully with a heading for the category. Does that make sense?

I do not want the customer to have to click on Aluminum or Steel necessarily if they want to see all options.

[Leo]

Any chance you can link me to the current site so I can take a look at your setup?

And do you have an example of what you’d like to achieve?

Thanks 🙂

[Nic]

Thanks for the offer, here it is. I am just getting started and trying to test my method of building this out.

This is the Electrical category page. I want when a customer clicks on Electrical and goes to Electrical page for it to display the items listed in child pages such as Charge Controller.

https://diyvanbuild.com/?page_id=17

[Leo]

Are you going to be selling something/using WooCommerce?

A structure like this?
http://gpsites.co/seller/

[Nic]

Each category will have products listed when you click on them will be a product page with user reviews, photos, tech tips, and an Amazon Affiliate link.

Here is a perfect example of the menu behavior I want. When user clicks on ANTENNAS you are take to a page that displays the sub-categories as links if the user wants to narrow down the products they are viewing.
https://www.americanradiosupply.com/antennas/

ANTENNAS
Base Station Antennas
Handheld Antennas
Mobile Radio Antennas
Ham Sticks
Dipole Antennas
GPS Antennas
GMRS Antennas
Scanner Radio Antennas
Wide Band Antennas
Whips & Stingers
4G/3G LTE Antennas
WLAN Antennas

[Leo]

A plugin like this is the closest solution I can think of:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-categories-widget/

You would need a use a plugin like widget shortcode:
https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/widget-shortcode/

And insert it using a hook element:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/hooks-element-overview/

[Nic]

Amazing Leo! I’ll look into those options.

[Leo]

Sounds good 🙂

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