Always showing the second level of menus

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  murraycu · Member · Apr 25, 2015 at 12:05 pm

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  Is there any generic way to always show the second level of menus instead of only showing them in a popup? Or are there any themes that do this?

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Apr 25, 2015 at 8:30 pm

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  If you’re using the default page menu you can display your page hierarchy in a sidebar with a pages widget. If you’re using a custom menu, then you may display the menu, with the generations revealed, in a sidebar area with a custom menu widget. However, how these widgets display in a sidebar may be theme dependent (I’m not sure).

  I don’t recall an instance in which a theme displays child pages or subcategory items in a header area menu, though I wouldn’t be surprised to find one.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Apr 25, 2015 at 8:32 pm

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  I meant, “I don’t recall an instance in which a theme displays child pages or subcategory items by default (that is, without prompting) in a header navigation menu.”

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  murraycu · Member · Apr 26, 2015 at 8:12 am

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  Yes, it looks like it would need custom PHP to show only the second level for the current page. I am surprised that no theme seems to offer this.

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  designsimply · Member · Apr 27, 2015 at 1:54 pm

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  There is a shortcode that will display child pages only. You can find out more about it at https://en.support.wordpress.com/list-pages-shortcode/

  It doesn’t solve the original request, but it may get you a step closer to what you wanted.