Menu Limitations

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I am coming here for advice mainly, because I am stuck on what to do next. Within my latest project, I am using WordPress at the backbone, as a fully fledged CMS system. I have styled every single page, and the theme is looking great! One problem however:

I am going to be posting not so news-y posts as guides, information and video compilations. I don’t want to be adding hundreds of wordpress pages, I would much prefer have posts categorized and then display them in the navigation.

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Yep, that is the problem. I am just wondering if it is possible to, without much code, and without hacking away at core files, be able to have the navigation like this:

  • Home
  • Guides
    • Posts in the Guides category displayed
  • Videos
    • Posts in the videos category displayed

I wouldn’t want this for every single category however.

So how long would this take me, would it require much coding and is there already and existing plugin that does this?

Thanks!

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  1. It shouldn;’t be so hard. All you have to do is to use wp_get_nav_menu_items filter.

    This will add 10 posts to submenu of item which title is equal to ”.

    function insert_my_posts_to_menu( $items, $menu, $args ) {
    $menu_order = count($items);

    $child_items = array();
    foreach ( $items as &$item ) {
        if ( $item->title != '<SOME MENU ITEM TITLE>' ) continue;

        foreach ( get_posts( array('post_type'=>'post', 'numberposts'=>10 ) as $post ) {
            $post->menu_item_parent = $item->ID;  // add post to submenu of current item
            $post->post_type = 'nav_menu_item';
            $post->object = 'custom';
            $post->type = 'custom';
            $post->menu_order = ++$menu_order;
            $post->title = $post->post_title;
            $post->url = get_permalink( $post->ID );
            $child_items[] = $post;
        }
    } 
    return array_merge( $items, $child_items );
}
add_filter( 'wp_get_nav_menu_items', 'insert_my_posts_to_menu', 10, 3 );

    Then you should also take care of current classess, I guess.

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