Hi, I’m looking for the best way to create a dynamic (automatic) nested menu system in my Hugo site. I want the end result to divide my navigation sidebar into sections per categories. The categories would probably be defined as a taxonomy and used as a Param for each piece of content.
I don’t know how many categories there would be in total or how many individual content items I have.
I looled into menus but they seem too prescribed and restrictive for my needs. Is there a way of determining all the category values used among all my content? Thanks!
What have you tried with the menu system? What restriction did you run into? Point us to a repo, and someone may be able to point out the proper way to create your menu.
The menu doesn’t work at all unless I put SectionPagesMenu = "main" in config.toml. I’m designing a theme, so I’d like it to work in theme.toml. If I put it in there, the menu is empty.
I have several nested sections in /patterns/, which exists in /content/. All the menu does is render a menu item called patterns which links to http://mydomain.io/patterns which isn’t even a page.
I’d take a look at themes from the showcase that have instructions for menus. I think many of them make menus optional, based on the existence of settings in config.*.
Do you mean, the example in menu docs? If that is the behavior then you have something to go off. Try tweaking the example to see if you can get what you are looking for.
Also, an update to Hugo is imminent, so check it out and maybe test it, as it adds support for nested sections, which may or may not be useful for your use case (with the categories and such).
