the “br” and “hr” tags – sorry I entered the full tags in the original question

Which editor are you using? (Text or visual)

There’s a function by default named ‘wpautop’ that will automatically handle the line breaks. All this is related to WordPress itself and not the theme.

Best, Juan.

I tried both the text & visual editor with no luck, however the br tags worked when I utilized it in the description area of the menu categories.

Hi,

Thanks for your kind words What you want to do can be accomplished by copying the menu template to a new template for each category that you want to show in a separated page.

Let’s say, if you want a separated menu page for Drinks, you need to copy template-menu.php to template-menu-drinks.php, and replace the comment ”/* Template Name: Menu */” with “Template Name: Drinks Menu”. That will make a new selectable template in the page editor.

Then, in your new file, you need to locate the call to the get_categories() function and replace the argument “parent => 0” with “child_of => 13” (replacing that 13 in the example with the actual ID of your Drinks category).

Please let us know if this helps.

Best,

Andrés.

Hey thanks for the quick reply. So I duplicated all the templates I needed, everything was pretty straight forward but I’m a little confused on the second part of getting the ID and child numeric portion of the menu categories. How do I find out the ID corresponding to a particular category? Do you mind elaborating a little more on it? Thanks!

You can find the ID by hovering the link of a category (in the Menu Categories section) and seeing the number that follows “tag_ID” in its URL.

I also realized that there’s another way of doing what you need: If you click “View” under any category in the list, you’ll go to a page that lists the menu items you have created under that category only. In Theme Options you can select to display your food menu category template with a grid or list style.

Then, when creating your WordPress navigation menu (check Appearance > Menus ), you can add any “Menu Category” there.

However, the templating menu allows you to be more flexible with how you want to display your pages, since you can add, remove or modify any HTML you need to.

Hope this helps.

Best,

Andrés.

Thanks for explaining how to find the IDs of the categories, I was looking in “inspect element” trying to find it. So now I have the IDs, I tried changing the “parent” to “child_of” in the php template menus along with swapping out the “0” but no matter what number I put nothing shows up :/

Also, the second method you were referring to…I already have my nav all set up currently, I’m looking to have MULTIPLE menu categories show up under each sub-navigation section. In my sub-nav I already have (Main Menu, Lunch Special & Drinks) and I’m hoping once they click on one of them it will take them to a whole page menu with even more categories listed on each individual page (Sandwich, Hot Pot, Chef Specials, etc.) problem is right now the categories are showing up on every single page of the sub-nav.

Gracias!

I think I’ll have to take a deeper look into it. Could you send me the URL of your site and an access to your admin area (user and password – I recommend to create a temporal account) to andres@nicethemes.com?

Best,

Andrés.

Unfortunately currently I’m working on the site under localhost and it hasn’t been hosted live yet. However I took a couple screenshots in hopes of getting us on the same page

So the first screenshot shows the sub-nav dropdown menu – which inlcludes “Main Menu, Lunch Special, Mini Meals and Drinks”. But as you can see when I click into different sub-nav sections the menu categories are all the same.

Thanks!

If I understand correctly, on one hand you have created menu categories and subcategories, with food items under each one of them. On the other hand, you created pages and assigned the Menu template to them. Is that so?

If I’m right, then you don’t really need the second step. Once you created your subcategories and have items assigned to them, the pages containing the items for this subcategories are created automatically. You can check that going to the list of menu categories and clicking “view” under the name of any of them. Then you can add any subcategory you want to your navigation under Appearance > Menus.

Best,

Andrés.

I’m giving your method a try, but I don’t see any categories available when I’m under Appearance > Menus. I clicked on View All under Categories below Pages and Links and there aren’t any categories that I have created in my Food Menu section, the only thing available is “Uncategorized”. Do you have any completed examples of this by the way? The theme example unfortunately only demonstrated the use of the menu for much less complex menus with lower levels of hierarchy. I’m starting to find this simple task quite frustrating :/

Hi,

Thanks for the prompt response. If you don’t get to see the Food Menu Categories over the “Appearance > Menus” section, then you can make them appear with an easy trick.

What you need to do is go to the top right part of the screen and click over the “Screen Options” button. That will toggle a panel in which you will find an option to show (or not) certain elements. Within those options you’ll find one named “Menu Categories”. Please make sure that one is ticked. Then you’ll see the box of Menu Categories on the navigation menu form in order to put them there.

We have a lot of examples of people using multiple menus. For example, this client asked something quite similar to what you have asked, and he did it in our support forum: http://nicethemes.com/forums/topic/multiple-menus-with-sections-ie-starters-main-dessert/

Best, Juan.

I think I got it working! Not seeing the categories in Appearance > Menu at first definitely confused the crap out of me. Appreciate the continuous guidance and support!

No problem Please, for support, don’t hesitate to write over our forums at http://nicethemes.com/support/ for a better experience.

Have a nice day, Juan.

Another quick question actually, haha! Where do messages go when people fill out the contact form and how do you change where the messages are delivered to?