WordPress Multiple Menus

[Jacek]

I have been asking Mr Google for help but hours spent in front of the screen didn’t solve my problem clearly (by which I mean I’m a beginner and understand simple language only ;))

I have a WP website with a menu at the top (ex. 1, 2, 3, 4)
I would like to have a separate menu (5, 6, 7, 8) when I’m on page 4.

Do you know any simple way of going about it? :)

[TheDoc]

You want to change your main navigation when you switch pages? Simply due to usability I highly recommend you not do that.

But perhaps I’m not understanding you correctly! Perhaps you want a sub-navigation to show under it?

[Jacek]

You understand what I mean – I want a different navigation when I switch pages.

To make it clear – it is a page of a local church and I want a subpage for the youth ministry. This is why I want to change the navigation from the main to one connected with the youth only (separate gallery, news, etc.) and still I want it to work under the same domain and layout.

Any ideas?

[Jacek]

And what about a conditional?

[Jacek]

For example:

if ( is_page('page_with_second_menu') ) {wp_nav_menu('menu' => 'menu-second-whatever-the-name-is');



}

?>

I have come across such things and I’m wondering how to make it work.

[cjk]

Custom post types?

That second section could be custom post types yeah?

Codex

So, you could set up a custom post type for your youth pages, a “single-type” template for custom posts and then call a custom header.php from that custom post single template that contains the navigation menu.

Whenever a post is made by youth, it will be made on the custom post type “youth” (not page, or post, there will be a new option in the dashboard for “youth” posts or whatever you decide to call it) .

Hope this makes sense to you.

[Jacek]

It makes sense but I still have no idea how to go about it ;)

[Jacek]

I made it!

1. I added a new menu in functions.php in my theme.
2. Then I created a new template (by simply copying page.php) where I replaced the name of the menu with the new one.
3. Finally using Appearance -> Menu I created a new menu and in widgets I used my new custom menu.

Now when I use any page connected with the youth I simply use the template.

That was all I needed and didn’t know it could be that simple :)

Thank you all for your help!

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