I am struggling with Bricks’s implementation of Mega Menus, something we need to use a lot of because of site depth and breadth. We utilize the WordPress-based menu system, as it is universal and generally plugs into almost anything we have used in the past. But, we are having a hard time integrating the Menu functionality with the mega-menu switch. We can get nested to work, but not the mega-menu full-width ability to kick-in. Do yo have a good resource that we can verify our approach with? I have looked at the Nav video in the Academy, but cannot get it to duplicate what I was trying to do.
Do you have an example (i.e. website, image) of what you would like to achieve?
This biggest request is for the mega-menu to just work. I tried a whole bunch of different attempts to get it to work (actually display as a mega-menu), but it would not. While the example is from the old site which we are rebuilding, this is similar to the structure, but on the back-end and front-end.
The live site for the menus is: https://orangecityiowa.com/
So you can do this easily, but it does take a few steps.
Here is a little video explaining the steps. Let me know if you have any questions.
Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zdHNJb0bW2zu9o5sn600y7brG2DcGqrx/view?usp=sharing
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Thank you for the time to make the video, but I am really struggling to understand not how, but why.
I looked at this, and then came back to it, because honestly, why would I want to make it infinitely more complicated by having separate menus for every single section? Especially when we were able to achieve the same functionality in a single menu that updating and management is done in one place? The whole point of having nested items is so that you can have more complex structures, but this is like going back and removing the benefits of comprehensive menu design.
So, what I did not mention in the previous comment is that everything you saw in those screenshots made the mega-menu I showed you both in screenshot and in the link happen. It is hard to understand why tearing all of that apart because Bricks does not know how to handle. nested menus.
Here is another example of a much more elaborate mega-menu that is just using the WordPress menus and the Enfold theme. That is a single menu with all of the columns, rows and elements. And, Enfold is certainly not new with all of the bells and whistles of Bricks 2.x.
Aside from the above, the challenge that was stopping me up is that I cannot even get it to engage the Mega-Menu on the top-level. I have it selected, but it will not do the full-width menu below. Mega Menu is selected, but it remains locked into the fly-out style drop-downs.
So I read your other comment and if you don’t like the multiple menu option, that is fine. You can also use the nestable menu element and build it out that way.
You can also by-pass the menu system completely and use a custom post type for your menu items and then query through them. You can still use the parent/child structure as well.
As for the last question, you almost there, just one last check in the Menus section.
