We need to be able to create drop down menus for topics in the top menu.

I know there are serveral related workitems about this on codeplex.

I seriously think we need to round off the CMS in NOP (and do it soon) - increasingly, i see wordpress, drupal and joomla sites being used for ecommerce. They are quite dominant.

Quite frankly, I don't think the ecommerce portions of them have a patch on nopcommerce - even though the sites might look good.


Now, I know that NOP isnt a CMS like the ones mentioned above but potential users want that flexibility - they may want a lot of information in the top menu but the space up there is limited.

So, now (in forthcoming 3.6) we can add a topic in the top menu ( that is actually a massive step forward) but I really don't think it is nearly enough for todays potential clients ( as I said, potential clients may have a lot to say up there with limited space and there won't be room for many topics)



As I said, I'm not suggesting a massive change or anything fancy, but what I think we need is the ability to create nested menus so that we can have drop down lists of our topics.


so, the details of my suggestion :

on the topic page, when we select the checkbox - 'include in top menu'

we would then be asked for more details :



a menu link title
a description of that link when we hover over it

we would be presented with a drop down list of the other topics ( but i guess only the ones which we have selected to be included in the top menu )

a display order for that item



reference : https://www.softaculous.com/demos/Drupal
to see it, log in, click 'content'

click 'create a basic page' - when you scroll down to the bottom, you will see the 'menu settings' - it's here that you can select where the menu link of your new page will be nested and the other details I've mentioned

Hi Hayden,

Thanks a lot. Please vote for this work item here

Thank you for that post - I totally agree.

The menu(s) must be totally customizable.  (all the nop sites in my signature have customized menus, but they were 1.9).

Generally, nopCommerce is a great product but the lack of ability to determine what comes on the menu frankly shocked me.

I look forward to the "topics in top menu" but I need to make customized product pages and be able to put them in the top menu.

The sites in my footer here show more of what I'm talking about.

I'd even be willing to give up the category feature that has the checkbox for "add to top menu".  I thought that would be handy but if it interferes with the ability to customize the top menu I'd say (if asked to choose) to lose that feature and allow specific customizing of the top menu.

Perhaps a good idea would be allowing menu plugins (imagine all the creative dropdowns / hybrids that the creative developers could make!)

David

hi david - i agree, the top menu should be more customisable than what I suggested above (especially given the competition from super popular cms options - the competition is not just other ecommerce platforms) - i hoped that the simpler options could be implemented even for 3.6 but there is always a lot of preassure on Andrei for every suggestion made.

ultimately, i think that for each page type - category, topic, product, blog, news  ... there should be an option 'include in top menu' followed by a drop down list of anything that is already included in the top menu (with a display order option) - that way we could build the top menu any way we like and include pretty much anything we want.

incedentally, that would include individual categories too.

I made this suggestion in August last year, and it was partially implemented in V3.50 later in the year.

I support finishing this off, by enabling dropdown menus from topics, by linking each topic to a 'parent' topic as a dropdown menu item.  If a topic does not have a parent topic mentioned, then it is a root menu item.

I have added my vote on Codeplex.