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Once installed and activated, you’ll get:

• a new tab under Presentation, to set up the hierarchy
• two new tags:
  • <txp:adi_menu /> to output the section menu markup
  • <txp:adi_menu_breadcrumb /> to output a breadcrumb trail

See the help supplied with the plugin, or have a look online.

Aims:

• ability to create a section hierarchy
• a CSS class assigned to sections that had children
• the active section to always be rendered as a link
• output lean markup
• the ability to clone a parent section as a subsection
• section sorting
• no conflict with other plugins

Basic menu markup:

By assigning parents to sections in the adi_menu admin tab, a section hierarchy can be created.

For example:

• A
• B
  • B1
  • B2
• C
  • C1
• D

will be rendered as:

<ul id="mainmenu" class="section_list">
   <li>Home</li>
   <li>A</li>
   <li class="menuparent">B
      <ul>
         <li>B1</li>
         <li>B2</li>
      </ul>
   </li>
   <li class="menuparent">C
      <ul>
         <li>C1</li>
      </ul>
   </li>
   <li>D</li>
</ul>

Note that:

• by default adi_menu will output a link to the ‘default’ section, which again by default is named “Home’ (this behaviour can be modified using adi_menu tag attributes)
• for clarity, I’ve omitted the link markup.

Other features include:

• ability to include articles within the menu
• separate sub-menus
• speaking blocks