[Resolved] Conditional display of menu based on post relationship

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[glenn]

Tell us what you are trying to do?
I need to display a menu based on the post relationship. The website is divided into regions. Each region should have a region specific menu that also has customs link 'news'. These custom links should dan show a news archive prefiltered with the current region.

So is there a conditional tag based on post relationship. And can i write custom links based on the current region.

Is there any documentation that you are following?
No

Is there a similar example that we can see?
No

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[Shane]

Hi Glenn,

Thank you for getting in touch.

These custom links will be on the site's main menu ? If so then it wouldn't be possible to have conditional menu items based on a relationship value.

Unless this is something that is hardcoded into your theme's header file.

Thanks,
Shane

[glenn]

Hi Shane,

no the region menu will be a separate menu that is placed in the sidebar. So either i make a widgetarea to load the menu in or i will create a separate menu area in the layout.

But i don't want my client to have to create a custom menu for every region with the customlinks. It would be so much better if i can automatically do this.

For example:
Each region has the following post types: news, vendors, blogs, events. All the post type are children of 'Regio' (post relationship).

What i would like is to have a menu(or sidebar) that checks which region the (custom) post is related to and show a menu/sidebar based on this. So something like a conditinal:

if post relation is 'region x' show menu 'region x'.

This would already help a lot. What would be even better is if the custom urls in the menu also get build based on the region.
So if i am on region 'westland' and i click on news than it shows an archive with url parameter 'westland' and this only shows 'Westland' news.

I hope i explained my problem accurately. Otherwise let me know.

Mvg,

Glenn Windhouwer

[Shane]

Hi Glenn,

I understand now.

It is possible if the menu is going to be an html coded menu.

This is because you're not able to have a conditional cell. If conditional cells were possible then you would be able to do this much easier.

However you will need to hardcode the html in a visual editor cell for the menus and wrap each menu in a conditional statement.

Please let me know if this helps.

Thanks,
Shane

[glenn]

Hi Shane,

ok i think i can figure out your solution. I just need to know what the conditional code would be for the postrelationship. Could you give me an example?

Kind regards

[Shane]

Hi Glen,

So the conditionals are easiest done from the child side so an example would be.

[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-title item="@manufacturer-car.parent"]' eq '' )"]

This is a test

[/wpv-conditional]

I'm getting the post title of the parent of the car cpt. So "car" is the slug of the child and "manufacturer" is the slug of the parent cpt.

Please let me know if this helps.

Thanks,
Shane

[glenn]

Hi Shane,

thank you for your reply. I will look into this on friday and will let you know if it solves my problems.

Kind regards,

Glenn

[Shane]

Hi Glenn,

Awesome looking forward to hearing the results.

Thanks,
Shane