[Support request] Using menu styles in sidebar?

[wekhter]

Currently we’re using a plugin to display menus in the sidebar that have toggleable/expandable nested items, but I actually prefer the way GeneratePress handles toggleable nested menu items in the slideout navigation. Is there any way to get menu widgets in a sidebar to use the slideout menu toggle functions?

[Leo]

Hi there,

Not sure if I understand this.

Are you wanting a slideout navigation on desktop or a menu in sidebar?

Let me know.

[wekhter]

@Leo

Sorry, I guess I didn’t really describe this well enough.

Right now I’m using a plugin to show a menu in the sidebar that has toggleable menu items: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpb-accordion-menu-or-category/

But I actually prefer the way the slideout menu handles toggleable menu items, since it’s styled like the rest of the theme. Since the toggle styling/scripting is already included in the theme for slideout menus, is there any way I can get that to apply to sidebar menus?

[Tom]

Are you using another menu on the page? If not, I would just move the primary or secondary navigation to the sidebar, and then set the dropdown type to “Click – Arrow”.

[wekhter]

@Tom Already using both primary and secondary menus, unfortunately… any way to get a tertiary menu? :p

[Tom]

Currently there isn’t unfortunately. I believe it would need custom javascript as well.

[wekhter]

@Tom Gotcha, I figured but it was worth an ask. A little feature request, then: Right now, with the Menu Plus addon you can style your primary & secondary menus as far as color (link/background, hover link/background, current page link/background), font size, spacing, and behavior for dropdown menus.

It would be very cool if the “Menu Plus” add-on let you have some more control over menus in sidebar widgets, with the same set of options–so you can also style the link for the current page and set a behavior for nested menu items (so you can choose always expanded or toggleable like how it works in the slideout menu).

[Tom]

Definitely a good idea. The menu generates a lot of CSS, so I’ve always tried to keep it to a minimum. I’m happy to help with styling if you need it with the widget menus 🙂

[roadlink]

Hi,

I arrive here while ı was trying to edit my sidebar categories.
Is there any update to edit it like regular menu?

[Leo]

Is there any update to edit it like regular menu?

Like to use customizer options?

If so unfortunately not.

[Author]

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