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Primary menu drop down options
5 replies · Started by Cecilia on June 21, 2021
I do hope you can help me. I have about 6 categories on the menu bar but each of them only display 4 blogs on drop-down. However all the articles are listed under the BLOG drop-down. How can i get the drop-downs to display all articles for each category separately even if all are listed under the BLOG drop down. I would really appreciate your kind assistance on this as I do not understand or know how to write code :-)
Thamk you
Hi Cecilia,
You can add in more posts to the menu item's submenu on Appearance > Menus.
Select the menu you want to edit and add in most posts on the list of the left side to the category it belongs to.
Note: I don't recommend putting links to posts on the menu bar, (even as dropdown/submenu). Your site will eventually grow and have more posts. In time, if a specific category has more than 100 posts, the dropdown will be too long and it's not a good user experience.
Thank you so much Elvin! I do get your point!
I am now thinking of just having the Categories listed as a submenu of Blog Articles as the Parent. Would this be a better option?
That might be a better experience for the user as i feel they don't realize that I have up to 10+ articles for some categories. Unsure though. Will this change pull all the articles of a selected category up for the user when they click on that category submenu? I guess that I will have to arrange them all manually under "Customize"> Menu.....
If I were a user, I would want to see ALL articles under a Category when I click on it. Is there a simpler way than my long method above.
Once again, thank you for your kind assistance
I am now thinking of just having the Categories listed as a submenu of Blog Articles as the Parent. Would this be a better option?
That's definitely the better option. That's actually what most sites do. It's either they have the categories only as a menu item or they add a sidebar and place the category listing there. :)
That might be a better experience for the user as i feel they don’t realize that I have up to 10+ articles for some categories. Unsure though. Will this change pull all the articles of a selected category up for the user when they click on that category submenu? I guess that I will have to arrange them all manually under “Customize”> Menu…..
If I were a user, I would want to see ALL articles under a Category when I click on it. Is there a simpler way than my long method above.
This shouldn't be an issue assuming the category links you've placed as the menu items are the actual links to the each category's archive page because an archive pages' main purpose is to literally the list of all existing post articles under the queried category. :D
Thank you so much for your kind assistance. I have included a Categories widget in the sidebar and this pulls the information.(:-)
No problem. Always glad to be of any help. :D
