When it comes to creating a site that has multi-level navigation, a drop down menu is often your best means of keeping the navigation simple and uncluttered. There are a few plugins that you can use to achieve this, but I’ve found that many of them make too many assumptions and don’t work exactly how I’d like them too. For that reason, I’ll detail a simple means of making your own WordPress drop down menu.
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Make your own WordPress drop down menu
Creating a dynamic select menu
I think more of an explanation is required on the title of this post to properly convey what we’re going to accomplish here. We’re going to setup 2 form selects. The 2nd select menu will be dynamically populated based on the selection made in the first drop down. Practically, lets say you want a user to choose from a list of main categories, and then use the second select to choose a sub category of the category chosen in the first select. Make sense? Cool.. here’s how…
Displaying child pages of the current page
A prime feature of most CMS systems is that pages have a strong hierarchy – plenty of pages, sub-pages and sub-sub-sub pages. Depending on exactly what you want to accomplish, there’s a main means of doing this that will help you have a nicely dynamic navigation area.
