Greyzed theme- how many pages can I put in custom menu?
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As I cannot have 2 categories with different info I am trying to do a custom menu. How many pages can I have in a menu? I believe i will try with the main topic then have drop down imbedded in that one topic, but curious how many I can have with the greyzed theme?
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This is not a theme issue. There is no limit to the number of items (Pages with drop downs to sub-pages, and/or Categories with drop downs to sub-categories, and/or Custom links) you include in a custom menu. What’s critical is:
(1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
(2) a clear comprehension of the fact that there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages. Note: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.
A custom menu allows you to display Categories with drop-downs to sub-categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages with drop-downs to sub-pages and/or custom links in your custom menu as well. You are in charge of what appears in a custom menu. You choose the order in which to display any and/or all the foregoing in your custom menu. You choose which to display and which to hide. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus
More here > WordPress.com custom menu walk-through -
There is a practical limit, and that is related to the available space for top level menu items. In some themes there is more room than in others, and some themes go to two lines of tabs more gracefully than others.
The other limit is related to ease of use for the visitor. If you have 200 tabs at the top of the site, people’s eyes are going to glaze over the they will likely not spend the time scanning through all of them to see if they can find what they are looking fo,r and may decide to go elsewhere. In this short attention span, instant-gratification web world we live in, keeping your navigation as simple as you can while still allowing ways for people to find your stuff is paramount.
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The other limit is related to ease of use for the visitor. If you have 200 tabs at the top of the site, people’s eyes are going to glaze over the they will likely not spend the time scanning through all of them to see if they can find what they are looking fo,r and may decide to go elsewhere.
I agree with your observations. I have seen blogs that have a HUGE number of tabs in custom menus and I could not locate what I wanted to with ease. I clicked out never to return again.
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I don’t really want 50 tabs, but 1 of my tabs I would like 50 sub-page tabs in the drop down.
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You can do that and the instructions are above > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/greyzed-theme-how-many-pages-can-i-put-in-custom-menu?replies=5#post-782529
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Here will be the issue you will run into. To maintain the widest compatibility with all the different systems and browsers/browser versions out there, the menus here are pure HTML/CSS, not Javascript. That means that there is nothing to make decisions (javascript can make decisions, HTML/CSS cannot). If you have 50 second level tabs or even just 25, and someone has a smaller monitor, such as 1024 x 768, many of the tabs are going to be hidden down below the bottom edge of the browser window. This would also apply to anyone using a smartphone or a tablet computer.
If it was a javascript-based menu system, then things could be coded so that the menu would scroll up or down when your mouse went to the top or bottom of the list (where part of it was hidden at the top or bottom). The problem is though, some browser/javascript combinations are seriously finicky, and some users keep javascript turned off for security reasons, so in those cases a javascript based menu system would not work at all.
If you have only 5 or possibly 10 second level menu items off of a top level item, and then off those were sub-submenu items, then you might be able to get 50 and have it work with smaller screen sizes, but it will be tough.
Do keep in mind your visitors when designing this menu system up and do your best to keep it clear, logical and not too complex or you will lose visitors.
What about the possibility of using a custom menu widget in the sidebar for part of your navigation system to keep from having to load the top navigation so heavily?
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