The Advanced Menus extension lets you create beautiful, interactive menus for your website. It will let you add elements such as Content Blocks, Headings, Icons and more to your menus. This means that your menu will be fully yours and you won’t have to restrict yourself to some pre-set options.
Activating the Advanced Menus extension is simple. Just pop your head over into the WordPress Dashboard, select Blocksy, then Extensions -> Pro Extensions -> Advanced Menus.
Exploring the Advanced Menu settings
Top Level Menu Options
Mega Menu Settings
These first set of options will let you arrange how the drop down of the top level item will look like. The Mega Menu Settings option must be turned on for the arrangement to fully take effect.
Drop Down Width refers to how much horizontal space the drop down menu will take on the screen.
The Columns option will let you decide in how many columns the drop down will split. And of course, you have a few choices in how these columns will be arranged.
AJAX Content Loading
This option is great if you have a considerable menu implemented, possibly as Content Blocks. It will let you load the contents via AJAX and not pollute your page markup with unneeded HTML tags until the moment they’re actually needed. Please note that this option is experimental and might not work in all cases.
Item Label Settings
This lets you decide if you would like to hide or show the menu item itself. Can be useful in case you wish to go the icon route, which is available in this section.
You can also turn off the link completely.
Menu Badge Settings
Here, you can add a badge that signals your visitors that something interesting might be happening in that category.
Child Menu Options
Custom Content
Content Type lets you specify what kind of content the first child item of the advanced menu system will show up as. You can have the classic link, that will get your visitors to the place they want to go to, or transform this into a Content Block and edit your menu using the Gutenberg editor, for full creative control.
Item Label Settings
This lets you decide if you would like to hide or show the menu item itself, or even turn it into a heading for organising your advanced menu columns. Can be useful in case you wish to go the icon route, which is available in this section.
You can also turn off the link completely.
Menu Badge Settings
Here, you can add a badge that signals your visitors that something interesting might be happening in that category.