I ready Larry’s thread titled “Secondary Nav Issues”; downloaded Andrew’s child theme (suggested near the end of the thread) and am very pleased with the results. I am wondering now if that Footer menu in the child theme could be expanded to include a second level.
I am working in a development environment at photosbylorena.com/wumc on a church site. Visitors to the church may also visit the site if they have questions about joining the church. A two level footer menu would improve their chances of getting to the information they need quickly.
Love your themes and your support is indispensable for me, a WP newbie.
Thanks for all you do.
Bob
Hi Bob
Thanks for your support.
Did you specifically try this child theme: https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/vantage-child-footer-nav-02.zip. Number 02. I just took a look over it now and it looks like there is no restrictions on drop down menus, there also looks to be styling for drop downs present in the style.css file.
I downloaded and installed it and it does support multi-level menus, however the lower level menu doesn’t display until I mouse over the menu item at the upper level. I would like to display two levels at all times so that a visitor has a greater number of options (without clicking) when he enters the site. I would like for it to look and perform as http://www.stpaulshouston.org/
I appreciate your help.
Hey Bob
I’m not sure we can help with that particular setup. It’ll look a bit funny if we just turn on the drop down visibility. Things won’t space evenly. It’ll also require a re-write of how the floating of those elements work. The child theme you’re trying was quite a big custom job for what we do here at the support department.
Just looking at this site here: http://www.stpaulshouston.org/. It would be very easy to add columns to your footer as this site does. You could use a Custom Menu widget or a pages widget the footer widget are at Appearance > Widgets > Footer. Each widget added to the footer will add a column. If that’s what you’re looking for then Vantage already can help without any custom development.
Thank you, Andrew. Let me give that a try. I really appreciate your advice.
For sure. Let us know if we can assist further.
I have been able to use the custom menu widget in the footer and am able to create a menu. I sure would like to have all of the elements of the menu visible so that visitors could find what they are looking for more easily.
Is there any way?
Thanks again for your help,
and your patience.
What I’d recommend at this stage is not using the footer menu assignment, you could abandon the child theme. I’d recommend inserting a Custom Menu Widget into the widget area at Appearance > Widgets > Footer. It will show a vertical list of your site’s pages. You can see one in use here:
http://chandlinghotelsupplies.co.za/
See the Browse column.
Does this just use the basic Vantage theme?
Vantage Pro with a few customisations. Let me know if you need anything.
I thought I tried what you were suggesting but Vantage Pro didn’t support a menu in the footer. Is that one of the customizations?
Hopefully we’re on the same page. Vantage, regular Vantage Pro, has a widget area in the footer, you can reach that from Appearance > Widgets > Footer. One of the core WordPress widgets you can add to that area is the Custom Menu Widget. Add that to the footer widget area, select your menu and it will be displayed in the footer as a simple vertical list.
OK! I think this is going to work. Thanks again. Are you up early?
For sure, let me know if you need a further hand there.
Up late :) We’re at GMT+2.
I will work this weekend. I knew you were in S. A. I am in Houston, TX. We are at GMT-6.
I really appreciate your help. Think I might have this under control.
Bob
For sure, glad we could lend a hand. All the best for the weekend.
Chat soon.
Andrew, gave up on the Custom Menu Widget in the footer and went to multiple text widgets with the menu columns and used href to move about the site.
I would like to move the church name, address, etc to the left side of the footer below the Home menu_item. Is there any CSS to do this
Sure, you could either add those items to the same Text widget.
OR
For complete control over your footer layout you could try the Layout Builder widget. That’ll let you build a Page Builder style layout within the Footer widget area. It can be useful for this type of situation.