Advanced Menu

Advanced Menus have been replaced in 2020 and later builds of Standfirst for Web with the Page Builder Functionality as described in the Landing Pages section of this guide.

Advanced Menus or, to give it the full title, Advanced Menu Walkers is the tool in Standfirst that allows you to fully curate blocks of content on your site.

The advanced menu widget allows you to curate content to be displayed in a number of ways. Because it’s powered by a menu, you can link to pages, posts, custom links and categories. This makes it very flexible to surface content but be careful how much you use it as content powered from the menu will not automatically update dynamically like some other widgets.

Tip: Flexible and good for content curation but avoid using if you want the content to update dynamically on a regular basis. 

Tip: It is advised that you follow the Creating a Menu tutorial before continuing with this section.

Steps

1. Insert a new Advanced Menu widget into a widget area

2. Title: Name you want to give your widget. Leave blank if not required.

3. Select Menu: Select the menu for the content you want to display. Go to Appearance > Menus to create a menu with the relevant content if not already created.

4. Select Menu Walker: Select the style of the template you require.
   Default – lists links only.
   Carousel – carousel slider.
   Featured Articles – displays card-style layout.
   Sidebar Cards – only used for the sidebar.

5. Click Save.

Advanced Menus or, to give it the full title, Advanced Menu Walkers is the tool in Standfirst that allows you to fully curate blocks of content on your site.