Recently in my freelance endeavors, I found myself in an interesting situation with WordPress where I needed to create a navigation that integrated links of both pages and categories, and have that navigation be managable through the WordPress administration area. Have you found yourself in a situation similar to this? Oddly enough this was my first time where I needed something like this, and I found a plugin that works perfectly.

The plugin is called Sticky Menu. You can find the plugin and a more detailed explanation by following the link. Basically, the plugin gives you a new section in your admin panel that allows you to create multiple menus where you specify the url and title of each link. You then use this code to display your menu…

$menu = new stickymenu;
$menu->display_menu('menu=Main'); # Will display menu 'Main' here

Multiple Dynamic Navigation Menus

With this as you can see, you can create as many dynamic navigation menus as you need. This plugin extends WordPress in such a way that competes with the Drupal content management system and it’s dynamic menu feature. Where I ended up using this plugin was with integrated sub categories with pages on sub navigations. Basically, I had pages set up but when you clicked on a page, a sub navigation appeared that would display both sub categories and pages that relate to that page. Without the Sticky Menu plugin I would never have been able to do this.

Currently WordPress syntax allows you to call either pages or categories, but not both integrated with each other. The Sticky Menu plugin takes care of that for you.