sidebar sub-navigation

Hi Les,

So basically you want a different sidebar menu for each page?

If so maybe try these two plugins?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-specific-menu-items/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/menu-swapper/

It might help if you can provide an example of what you are after.

Here's an example of a website that has the side-navigation like I'm referring to.

http://www.bayoupreservation.org/About/Stewards-of-Our-Bayous

I want to avoid using something like menu-swapper because with that, you have to create multiple menus.

Thank you!

Hmm then you can try using CSS and target each page and menu item. So something like this:

.page-id-## .inside-right-sidebar .menu-item-## {
    display: none;
}

It will be a bit of work to go through each page but you should be able to keep it to one menu.

Thank you for the feedback Leo. I was hoping there was something that would be a little more automated. Like to where it would programmatically know what section of the site was the current one; and hide the others.

Kind of like how WP is able to set the current page class on the li in the menu so you can have the current page/section be a different color. e.g. li.current-menu-parent

Thanks again!

This plug-in does (did!) what I want, but it's very old > https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-section-navigation/screenshots/

You got me thinking and I'm close to getting it to work with CSS...I think...

Thank you again Leo! I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Also, I stumbled across this which may be another option:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bu-navigation/faq/
http://developer.bu.edu/bu-navigation/
https://github.com/bu-ist/bu-navigation/wiki/Content-Navigation-Widget

All told Leo, I love the idea of a simple CSS solution. Looking forward to what you find out!

Any updates on the CSS solution? Thank you!

I'm not sure this is possible with CSS, unless Leo has thought of something?

I did find these though:
https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/be-subpages-widget/
https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/flexi-pages-widget/
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-a-list-of-child-pages-for-a-parent-page-in-wordpress/

If Tom doesn't think it's possible with CSS then it's definitely not possible. sorry to get your hopes up! Looks like a plugin would have to do.

Thank you Tom!

I'd like to avoid another plug-in, so I'm trying the WP Tutorial you linked.

Added this to my child-theme functions.php:

//sub-page display from -> http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-a-list-of-child-pages-for-a-parent-page-in-wordpress/
function wpb_list_child_pages() {
global $post;
if ( is_page() && $post->post_parent )
$childpages = wp_list_pages( 'sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&child_of=' . $post->post_parent . '&echo=0' );
else
$childpages = wp_list_pages( 'sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&child_of=' . $post->ID . '&echo=0' );
if ( $childpages ) {
$string = '

' . $childpages . '

';
}
return $string;
}
add_shortcode('wpb_childpages', 'wpb_list_child_pages');

I attempted to create a new page template by duplicating the GP page.php file and adding it to my child theme directory... but since this is related to the sidebar, I think that I'll need to hunt for a different tutorial.

I also tried to add the shortcode [wpb_childpages] to my left sidebar widget, but nothing displays on the front-end.

http://www.vwnaus.com/themeone/sub-navigation/

Thank you again for the assist!

Looks like you got it working&gt? I see the submenu in the sidebar now.

Using [wpb_childpages] in your text widget would be the way to go for sure :)