3. A Different Display for Left Side Page Navigation

In the previous steps, we saw that we can't see our child pages in this theme's top bar display. No problem, as we can show them if we want in our left sidebar page navigation box. I still don't want to show them all, and we'll not even build pages for a lot of our topics. We'll use dynamic category pages created by WordPress on-the-fly when called up.

However, right now we see in this image how we can select the pages and child pages that we want to show up in our left sidebar page navigation. Note that we're telling our widget to Sort by "menu order descending." That's because this them sorts the top bar from right to left. If we chose ascending menu order, we would display in this box as 1, 2, 3,4, which is not the most important buttons on top.

About the child pages under Search and lack of any under "About DemoTown" and "Real Estate Info." If you have the ability to break out home and land searches for IDX display, you may want to take this approach. If not, you would have no child pages. The example Foreclosure Search page is from Foreclosure.com, and I'm not recommending it, but showing you the way a third party plugin can add services or functionality to your site.

Saving this widget's changes and saving the page will give us the current sidebar page navigation box. I don't want child pages for the "About DemoTown" and "Real Estate Info" pages, and you'll see why in the next step.