Sometimes while writing continues posts in various categories we found that we do not have enough space for more categories. In that case we have an option of adding one more menu in our wordpress theme so that we can manage other categories but this would not be a good idea to add several menu on your wordpress theme. If your requirement needs more than one menu for different setup or for another requirement, you can refer to my previous post How to add multiple menu in wordpress.
Here we will learn how to implement multi-level menu in wordpress so that we can combine our several categories in one place. This results more space and all our content is managed.
Wordpress provides very simple and easy to implement plugin called – Multi-level Navigation Plugin. This plugin allow us to manage menu with lots of options including display format, number of item to display and their order.
Features
The plugin produces W3C valid XHTML and CSS. The options page allows you to choose from a range of options including:
* What content will be displayed in the menu
* Animation speed (how fast the dropdowns appear)
* Mouseover delay
* Hide delay
* Add a second menu
* Hover sensitivity
* Keyboard accessibility
Installation
1. Upload the complete multi-level-navigation-plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Add following code in your header.php (where you want to display your menu).
<?php
if (function_exists('pixopoint_menu')) {pixopoint_menu();}
?>
4. Visit the “Multi-level Navigation” page in your WordPress options menu
For more information, help and support, you can visit pixopoint.
You can download plugin from here.
Download
Hope this multi-level menu tutorial help you to manage your blog categories easily.
Source : wordpress.org
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