Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me here. I maintain a very simple website for my artist building, which I only update once a year as we get ready for an annual event. The event didn’t happen in ’20 or ’21, which means I’m looking at the site for the first time in almost 3 years and I can’t remember how this worked. I am not a web designer, and am quite a novice; I’m just the person in the building willing and able to make and maintain a basic wordpress site.
The first thing I did when I came to do this year’s edits was update WordPress and the Theme – Vantage – to their newest versions. Everything looks good still except that I’ve lost my hover-over menus.
We have a static page as our home page, with a single Menu at the top listing four Pages.
It used to be that hovering over the menu items popped up a drop-down list, but now that feature is gone. The links to the four pages still work correctly.
see: madoysterstudios.org
The landing page is a static page madoysterstudios.org/artists
The sidebar lists all the artist pages, but it used to be that hovering over ARTISTS on the menu bar also created a drop-down list, which I think I remember having edit manually separately from the sidebar list that simply lists active pages. The MEDIA item on the header navigates to a /media but I used to have a list of the media headers in a dropdown that allowed visitors to jump ahead to a particular section on that page that interested them.
Can anyone tell me / remind me how to set up those hover-over drop-downs again?
thank you!
(Since posting this question I changed what our landing page is. Nothing about the question changes, it just doesn’t line up with what the above says exactly)
Hi, thanks for reaching out.
Head over to AppearanceMenus. Use the small drop-down, select field to choose your main menu. Once editing the menu assigned to the theme’s main menu location, you can add links or pages and drag them a level deep to create a drop-down.
Oh, yes! Thank you Andrew. I had forgotten about nesting menus. Easy-peasy, now that you remind me.
This might be a new question, but maybe it’s easy, too- I have a long list in the drop down, and only the first 1/3 or so appear on the screen, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to scroll down through them. It’s also awkward. I’ve seen menus that tier out in stages when they get to the end of how many fit on a screen. Is that possible, or do I need to make “Artists A – K” etc.? That feels less ideal, since different screen sizes will fit different amount of items.
If this is more properly a new question I’m fine to post it as one.
thanks again!
Thanks for the update; I’m glad to hear you’re making progress.
Using Vantage, you could perhaps restructure your menus to avoid your described issue. Alternatively, a plugin like Max Mega Menu allows for mega menus.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/megamenu/
UberMenu is a popular commercial option. Max Mega is free with a premium version.