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Hi there!
I’m using the “Westview” theme and am trying to put in submenus and have tried following the instructions by going to customise and customising the menus and indenting the ones I want as a submenu, but it doesn’t seem to work. Can anyone please help with this? The menu also isn’t appearing at all when I preview the page through the dashboard, even though it is there when I am customising the page… Very strange!
Thank you in advance for your help.
Best,
Angelina
Hi Angelina-
Thanks for the question, I agree that’s very strange. I double-checked a Westview installation on my end, and the drop-down submenus are working as expected:
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Hi Jesse,
Thanks for your help so far
My site is currently under construction so I haven’t published it yet (it’s learningwithlina.com) – I seem to be able to get it working now though, but only if I use the menu in the “primary menu” location. If I click header/ footer top/bottom the stacking disappears and each menu item is just shown separately – is this normal?
On a side note – how do I toggle which pages the menu is shown on please? Or is it just on all pages?
Thanks for your help!
Best,
Angelina
Hi Angelina-
Yes, it’s normal that drop-down menus only work in the Primary Menu location. There is a way to change which menu area is treated as the “Primary,” check out this support thread for instructions. It is a bit technical and requires some PHP coding.
Your menu will appear on every page of the site, this is the most common way to provide your users with a consistent navigation experience. You can hide your menu on specific pages using Custom CSS. Here’s another post explaining how to accomplish that.
Found this thread on menus and Westview. I am also trying to create an uncommon site (Motorcycle themed) that I have been frustrated with for almost two years….(rebuilding now). What is funny is that although I appreciate some of the incredible tools (For a non-techie like myself) offered in BoldGrid, (Here is the big BUT!)..I feel that the real basic and fundamental tools are the hardest and most overlooked. The menu facility is so entirely confusing (I have shown it to a pro-dev person) as well as someone who works on with multitudes of sites and does UX- BOTH find the menu suite overly confusing. Why can’t there be a tool that DESCRIBES the attributes that the menu will appear as? I.E. In my case (Creative Non-Tech) I pay attention to HOW people are interacting with their sites and devices etc. I DO NOT want a typical menu structure (i.e. Horizontal, one-line AND every page being the same), instead, I want people to be able to flick on their phones with ease while wearing moto-gloves, at a track or in their garage. So…..I don’t care what the metrics say….I want (For myself and subs) to be able to hit Big-Bad-large buttons— the easier the better! Never mind that Westview theme doesn’t seem to allow me to use Impact font (Yes! for sports…) And I have to settle for something else as well as the Menu not picking it up as well. Creating menus should feel like you are creating a simple page itself (IMHO). Your creation tools and attention to detail are otherwise fantastic and a HUGE thanks for allowing we the little people to learn and express ourselves – Thanks BoldGrid!
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