menu dropdowns - sub-subcategories

crockny

Hi - I have a menu bar with multiple categories and then a dropdown bar with subcategories - within my subcategories are secondary categories ... is there a way for the dropdown list to include the secondary subcategories? Hope this makes sense ... here's my link:

http://untamednewyork.smugmug.com/

AceCo55

If I understand you correctly, then yes it is possible.
Customise > Entire site (I'm assuming you want the menu bar on every page?) > hover over the menu bar until it shows red box > click on wrench > click the "links" tab

Now for each new menu item there is a two step process:
1) create the link
2) move the link to desired position

1: To create link
At the bottom of the links list is a "+" button ... click that
Add the name you want to appear in the menu
Add URL (by navigating to that page/gallery)

2: Move to desired position
Once the link is created, it will appear at the bottom of the links list.
Click and drag it up the list until it is just below the category you want it to belong to ... THEN drag it to the right a little bit. It will become indented.
This means it will appear in the menu as a sub-category to the category above it


Repeat these two steps for all of the new menu items you want to create.


So in the menu list above, "Kingston Football" and Kingston Netball" are subcategories of GALLERIES
Within "Kingston Football", there are a further 4 sub-catergories (A Grade / B Grade / Senior Colts / Junior Colts) ... notice that these four are indented just a bit more to the right than the parent category, "Kingston Football"

crockny

Hmmm not sure what I did, some customization someone gave me, I guess ... In the menu bar I only have the main items - Home, Recent Work, Galleries, etc. - when I hover over Galleries, say, I see Nature, Fine Art, Places etc.

In the links panel I only have the main categories of Home, Recent Work, Galleries etc., so following your method I cannot places "Butterflies" under Nature because it does not appear in that customization panel!

Now what do I do?

AceCo55

If I am understanding you (and at my age that isn't always the case!) ... your menu system looks like this
HOME
RECENT WORK
GALLERIES
>>> Nature
>>> Fine Art
>>> Places

Are "Nature", "Fine Art", and "Places" galleries or are they folders?
If they are folders, then you can most certainly add a link for Butterflies" and then move it to be a sub-menu of Nature.

On my site, I don't include galleries in the menu system as they change every week.
What I add are my site's main folders, then the sub-folders for them and ... if necessary sub-sub folders within those.
So the final links in my menu system takes the viewer to a folder of galleries

So under "Galleries" you could have sub-folders for Nature, Fine Art, Places
Under Nature you could create sub-folders for say Butterflies, Birds, Mammals, Insects, Flowers
If you wanted to break one of these up further you could create folders within those (eg In Birds >>> Water, Birds of prey, Finches, Hummingbirds etc)

Under "Places" you might create sub folders for say Oregon, Florida, Ohio, Texas, Kentucky etc

What might be helpful, if you haven't done it already, is to map out the folder structure/categories of your web site.
Then you can make sure you have created all of these folders before you start linking them in your nav menu.

I'm sure you will end up with what you want.

crockny

Galleries is a folder, Nature is a folder, Butterflies is a gallery ... Nature does not show up in my customize link list ... even though when I hover over Galleries I get the dropdown list starting with Naure ...

AceCo55

???? Beyond my feeble mind - I don't know how that is possible.
If it were me - and it may well not suit you - I would delete all my links in the customise list and then rebuild the menu system again (I would just make sure I had all the required folders all set up in Organizer first)

Sorry I can't help you further

ChancyRat

So I also may not understand, but I think you need to:
- add each sub-folder as its own link, drag it up to under your Galleries folder link, and set the "open subfolders" for each sub-folder.
- If you also have galleries in "Galleries," those then need to be added as individual links.

In other words don't set the "Galleries" folder's "open subfolders" open on. It needs to be off. It's the sub-folder links where you turn on the "open subfolders" option.

basflt

there is an option ; automatically create sub-links ( click the > )
switch it off and manually add the links

crockny

I see what you're saying - I will try that ... thanks!

crockny

Great - got it now - thanks all for your help!