Structure pages back-end

[tooth-paste]

What is the best way to structure my pages in the back-end? I have different pages split in two different styled menu's. Three menu links of pages are bigger then the rest. Underneath the big button pages are some subpages.

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-page

-page 

-page

-page

--page

--page

 

 

[Robin S]

I suggest you structure your pages based on how the front-end URLs should be (e.g. mydomain.com/page/subpage/) rather than how you happen to be styling your menus.

[tooth-paste]

The trouble is that if I place all pages in the main root, how do I output two different menu's? When I use this code all children are visible in the same styling. Must menu links be made invisible?

 

$homepage = $pages->get("/");
$children = $homepage->children;
$children->prepend($homepage); 

 

[diogo]

You have many options. One is to have the pages that you don't want on the main menu as "hidden", and build the second menu by hand. Another is to make a simple menu builder, for example on the home template, with two different page fields. There are more options, but I think those two are already pretty good.

[adrian]

Or @kongondo's menu builder: 

http://modules.processwire.com/modules/process-menu-builder/

[Robin S]

Selectors are your friend.

$my_special_pages = $pages->find("parent=/, name=foo|bar|baz"); // or match by template, or anything else
$my_other_pages = $pages->find("parent=/, id!=$my_special_pages");
// now build your menus from these PageArrays