Custom Side Menu

[d_enajetic]

Hello All,
While coming up with new ideas for my tutorial / community site, I think I found a missed opportunity for the devs. I love the idea of a side menu, but there’s only one that can be site for the entire site. How about the ability to set a custom side menu per page? In my case, I have video tutorial series and would like to have all of the videos in that series in the side menu. I’m currently using a full width page on a boxed layout so a sidebar would kill the design. A side menu where I can create the menus in advance, then select one for each page would be incredible. Of course I’m no coder, so I don’t know how difficult it would be to implement, but I think a lot of people would gravitate to that feature.

Just my thoughts. Thanks.

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[sharmstr]

Try this plugin https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/menu-items-visibility-control

You can use this code: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_page

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[sharmstr]

moving to feature requests forum

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[d_enajetic]

Thanks for the response, Sharm. I’ve installed it and looked over the options, but I’m unclear how to implement this for my purpose. I’ve thought about the page ID example, but each video is on it’s own page. That would mean possibly listing 30+ IDs. I’m also unsure of how this would actually trigger the side menu to open on those pages. Any guidance you’re willing to offer is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[sharmstr]

I think you are thinking about that backwards. The page id is for the page to show the link on. Its not the id of the video page.

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[d_enajetic]

I appreciate you responding, Sharm, but I’m very confused. Let’s go at it this way.

I have a video series that contains 10 pages. Menu A contains all of those pages. How would I get side menu A to show on those pages?

[d_enajetic]

Let me also add, there’s another series that has 15 pages and needs to display side menu B.

[sharmstr]

You only use 1 menu.

in menu items 1 – 10 (assumes page ids are 1-10, obviously not so change to suit)

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is_page(array('1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7','8','9','10'));

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[d_enajetic]

I think I understand you now. Create 1 menu containing all items for Menus A, B, etc. In those menu items I want to display in Menu A, use the page array code. Correct?

[sharmstr]

Yep. That’s why its called Menu ITEMS Visibility (LOL). See if this makes sense. Notice the difference between Series A and Series B as far as the page IDs go. I havent tested this but I think it should work ok.

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[d_enajetic]

Dude, you’re a genius. Makes perfect sense. I’m going to try it out now.

One final question: Is there a way to make the side menu pop automatically? Or will you have to click the side menu icon every time?

[sharmstr]

I vaguely remember seeing that asked before. Do a search.

Also, let me know if that doesnt work. I have another idea, but I like this menu items approach better.

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[d_enajetic]

Man, I was so hopeful. It’s not working. Any other suggestions? I’m still researching on my end as well. I thought about this, but I haven’t heard back from the creator yet.

http://codecanyon.net/item/popping-sidebars-and-widgets-for-wordpress/8688220

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[sharmstr]

So, it works perfect on my site. I think the issue is that you’re also using Nav Menu Roles. It’s even popping up a warning about it in WP Admin

“Nav Menu Roles has detected a possible conflict with the following functions or classes: Menu_Items_Visibility_Control”

The other idea I had was to use widgets. Create a new sidebar, add a text field for each series, put links to each page in each series, use a plugin like conditional widgets to control display then add the sidebar in theme options > side menu.

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[d_enajetic]

Ahh, I wondered if that would be an issue. Ok. I’ll try your other idea. I also heard back from the creator of that other plugin I spoke of.

“The plugin has Visibility settings that will help you choose on which pages/posts/etc you want your overlay to be visible on.”

Worst case scenario I’ll go with that. I’d still suggest implementing this into Kleo though.

Thanks for the help, Sharm. I greatly appreciate it.

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