Creating a multi column drop down

[chadritchie]

Is there an option in Suffusion to enable a multi column drop down menu for the nav bar below header?
Maybe something similar to the "Theme Options" button at http://demo.synopsis.sooperthemes.com/

If not, can anyone offer advice how I can achieve this in a Suffusion child theme?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Chad

[Colin]

Yes there is and it is called a Mega Menu. Unfortunately it is one of the features that I haven't needed to use so far in Suffusion so I can't help you further other than to suggest that you do a search on the Forum and Sayontan's blog for details.

[sayontan]

The steps to get mega menus working are outlined here: http://aquoid.com/news/2012/02/suffusion-version-4-0-0/

[chadritchie]

Mega-menus are awesome! However, will they display top-level pages in columns? I only want the drop-down to display top-level pages, maybe child-pages later on. I am using this theme to redesign our county web site and I would like to list all departments into three colums. Right now I keep getting one long column See attachment). I think I am reading the instructions correctly. Thanks so much for your help and this great theme.

[sayontan]

Get a widget that does it and include that widfet. That kind of a request is plugin territory.

[juliushg]

I did follow the steps to create the mega-menu, but I only want to display a menu of a category that has about forty sub-categories in four columns.

Example: My top-level category is Languages, the sub-categories are Africaans, Aleman, Arabe, Armenio, Bulgaro, Bosnio, Catalan, ...etc. My goal is to put "Languages" as an item in the Navigation Bar Below Header and when mouse-over then displays four (or any number of) columns with the 40+ languages (around 10 in each column).

Is this possible to accomplish only with the mega-menu or do I need some widget? Please enlight.

[sayontan]

You will need some means to split the 40 sub-categories into 4 columns in a mega menu. You could create 4 text widgets and manually enter 10 sub-categories in each text widget, otherwise you will need some specific widget that you can configure to show 10 widgets starting from one id and going up to another id.

[juliushg]

Ah ok, then may I hope those type of details will be included in future releases?

Thanks Sayontan for your great theme, in a near future I will invite you a coffee.

[sayontan]

Ah ok, then may I hope those type of details will be included in future releases?

Details? You mean a widget of that sort? That is probably not going to happen, as it has a distinct plugin flavour.