Can the navigation menu items be reordered?

matt · June 2012

Can the navigation menu items be reordered or rearranged?

Either through the admin interface, or through a method exposed to a plugin?

peregrine · June 2012

you can put something like this in config.

$Configuration['Garden']['Menu']['Sort'] = array('Discussions', 'Conversations', 'User', 'Questions', 'Activity', 'Applicants', 'Dashboard');

you can reorder in plugin as well, I suppose by setting config

matt · June 2012

Thanks very much.

peregrine · June 2012

profile tabs also ala businessdad:

$Configuration['Garden']['ProfileTabOrder'] = array('MyTab', 'Discussions', 'Thanks', 'Comments', 'Votes');

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/162956/#Comment_162956

more on plugin ala gary mardell http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/9725/menu-position-code-advice

peregrine · June 2012

figured I'd add this here from another thread on sorting on items

e.g. to put who's online at the the top followed by...

$Configuration['Modules']['Vanilla']['Panel'] = array('WhosOnlineModule', 'TagModule', 'BookmarkedModule', 'CategoriesModule', 'GuestModule', 'Ads');

from the documentation:

Organizing Module Sort Order

You can organize the order that modules appear in assets by manipulating the Modules collection of the Configuration array. Take a look at conf/config-defaults.php to see the default sort order of core-packaged modules:

// Modules
$Configuration['Modules']['Vanilla']['Panel'] = array('NewDiscussionModule', 'GuestModule', 'Ads');
$Configuration['Modules']['Vanilla']['Content'] = array('Gdn_MessageModule', 'Notices', 'Content', 'Ads');
$Configuration['Modules']['Garden']['Content'] = array('Gdn_MessageModule', 'Notices', 'Content', 'Ads');
$Configuration['Modules']['Conversations']['Content'] = array('Gdn_MessageModule', 'Notices', 'Content', 'Ads');

matt · June 2012

@peregrine how about sorting the Custom Menu, the one created for menu items added by plugins?

peregrine · June 2012

matt said: @peregrine how about sorting the Custom Menu, the one created for menu items added by plugins?

I've run into the same dilemma.

try this - if you are successful - post here. http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/9725

matt · June 2012

That doesn't work for me, the order on the front end remains unchanged.

I kind of expected that as the system menu links are written first, and the {custom_menu} is written afterwards in the template.

As a workaround I just moved the position of {custom_menu} in my theme template

matt · June 2012

As a side note, I was never able to get the config sort to work, either:

$Configuration['Garden']['Menu']['Sort'] = array(...);

peregrine · June 2012

matt said: That doesn't work for me, the order on the front end remains unchanged.

I kind of expected that as the system menu links are written first, and the {custom_menu} is written afterwards in the template.

As a workaround I just moved the position of {custom_menu} in my theme template

seems like the easiest way in smarty template.

the menu sort doesn't seem to work with smarty templates, but it will work for non-smarty themes like the default theme.