PROBLEM Child Menus

[JonBoy49]

Can someone please point me to some documentation or examples of how the menus are _supposed_ to work.

I want (for example) under the menu item "About" to have three pages. One is the basic "About" for the company - this should link directly from the menu bar. The other two are pages for each of the principals - "Fred" and "Barnie" and they should be children of "About".

For the "About" page I selected <No Parent> and "Add to menu". So far so good - it appears in the menu bar. I then set "Fred" to have "About"  as its parent.

If I then select "Add to menu" it doesn't appear as a sub menu item but rather appears on the main menu bar. OK - so I deselect "Add to menu" and refresh the page. There is now no menu item for "Fred" at all.

If I go back and select "Add to menu" again - but change the page's priority to be 1 higher than its parent page - whoopppeee - a little down arrow appears on the "About" menu item and "Fred" is correctly positioned as a child item.

That joy is short-lived however. If I make the same change to "Barnie" the page is not added as a child to the "About" menu item but rather appears as a separate main menu item AND - to make matters worse - "Fred" is now a child of both "About" and "Barnie" which makes no sense to me. I have tried setting the priority to the same value as "Fred" - I have tried it one higher - no difference.

I understand that I can get other menuing plugins - but I just want to get an understanding of the basics before moving on.

Can somebody point me in the right direction please.

[shawn_a]

Getsimple does not support multilevel menus, you have to write your own functions or use a plugin

[JonBoy49]

Getsimple does not support multilevel menus, you have to write your own functions or use a plugin

OK - thanks.

Any recommendation for a suitable candidate for a newbie with basic needs?

Also can I take it that the fact that I _am_ seeing a secondary level menu, albeit one that is incorrect when more than one child is added, is a function of the SimpleBootsstrap theme and I need to ask the authors of that theme?

[Timbow]

Getsimple does not support multilevel menus, you have to write your own functions or use a plugin

OK - thanks.  

Any recommendation for a suitable candidate for a newbie with basic needs?

Also can I take it that the fact that I _am_ seeing a secondary level menu, albeit one that is incorrect when more than one child is added, is a function of the SimpleBootsstrap theme and I need to ask the authors of that theme?

We need better guidance for this because it comes up again and again and it isn't always easy to understand. I am going to write something in the wiki. 

In the GS backend you see in Page Options the option to define a page a the child of another. That will give the page the url parent\child but it won't sort out your site navigation. 

In your page template, GS's get_navigation() tag inserts a simple html list of links to pages marked for inclusion in the nav menu regardless of their child/parent status. You need a plugin to do anything more. Typically you might want to make nested <ul> elements for levels of navigation, but not always. Sometimes you might need different levels displayed in different places, maybe by full page title, maybe as <p> elements.

To display the nested lists (or separate lists or whatever) you then need the right css in your theme.

I18N is the most used plugin for multi-level navigation, but there are also a couple of simpler plugins in extend. The I18N instructions are here:
 http://mvlcek.bplaced.net/get-simple/mul...navigation

[JonBoy49]

Getsimple does not support multilevel menus, you have to write your own functions or use a plugin

OK - thanks.  

Any recommendation for a suitable candidate for a newbie with basic needs?

Also can I take it that the fact that I _am_ seeing a secondary level menu, albeit one that is incorrect when more than one child is added, is a function of the SimpleBootsstrap theme and I need to ask the authors of that theme?

We need better guidance for this because it comes up again and again and it isn't always easy to understand. I am going to write something in the wiki. 

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Thank you Timbow - perhaps when you have written it up you could post back here. In the meantime I will follow up on your suggestions.

Not a suggestion to you as much as a general thought. But it would be nice if any theme developers could identify more clearly when they support things like multi-level menuing options, use Bootstrap, etc.

Thanks again.

[Timbow]

http://get-simple.info/wiki/multi-level_navigation

Feel free to edit. An image or two would improve it .