Custom Menu Widgets?
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I am not having any luck figuring out how to make a list appear in the sidebar that has a heading Playlists, and then under that has each post in the category Playlists.
I saw a site where the person has some things in the sidebar with bulleted lists, and some with a double-spaced list.
I experimented with the Categories widget and the Archives widget, and I can get the headings to appear in the sidebar but not the lists.
now the Custom Menu widget, which seemed the most likely to work, but no go. I just found that if I click Visibility in there, I can set it to Show if Category is Playlists. But I selected this and it didn’t work.
Am I l completely off track?
I would like for it to be a list of actual Post Titles, not Categories, but perhaps to do that I have to first add the whole post title in the Categories or Tags to get them to appear that way? So confused.
Thanks so much for any help!The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Sorry, I forgot to mention that the theme is Quintus, and that the blog I saw was also using Quintus.
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You can add a Text Widget and add the following Display Posts short code to it:
[display-posts category="playlists"]By default above short code displays 10 posts titles. You can specify how many posts you want (in this example, 3) to show as following:
[display-posts category="playlists" posts_per_page=3] -
now the Custom Menu widget, which seemed the most likely to work, but no go. I just found that if I click Visibility in there, I can set it to Show if Category is Playlists. But I selected this and it didn’t work.
You’re on the right track here. A Custom Menu widget will do exactly what you envision, except that the menu will not appear as a drop-down menu in the sidebar, as it does when used in the header navigation area. Another topic for the Ideas forums I guess.
What you are missing in the equation is that no item will appear in a Custom Menu, regardless of the visibility settings, that isn’t placed there. From the Custom Menus support page:
At any time, you can change the order and placement of menu items by simply dragging and dropping the items to change their order. To create sub-menus or “drop-down” style menus, drag individual items to the right to “nest” them under a given parent tab. You can undo this by dragging them to the left.
You can name your custom menu “Playlists,” and add each post containing a playlist within the Menu Structure area using the “Posts” add to menu tool on the left side of the Menus page.
I saw a site where the person has some things in the sidebar with bulleted lists, and some with a double-spaced list.
Alternatively, you can create an ordered or unordered link list in a draft post or page and copy and paste it into a text widget. The bullets you’ve seen in other sidebars may have been created in this manner, or they may be due to the nesting of submenu items, or the presence of page hierarchies assigned by the Page Attributes module.
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In the quote from the Custom Menus support page, the term “drop-down menus” doesn’t apply to a menu in custom menu widget . There you will see bullets to mark submenu items.
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Thank you both for your lightning-fast replies! I finally got the time to try both methods.
I didn’t know I could use shortcode without having the Premium! I think for this I am going to use that method because as I post new playlists it automatically will add them to the sidebar list.
But the custom menu I am glad I learned too because I can use that for something else. I like the feature with the hierarchies. And I don’t need the drop-down menu so that will be fine.
You guys are awesome! Thanks so much!!
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