Advanced Megamenu Dropdown

We built our simple Megamenu in previous section. We are now going to build a little complex mega menu using Visual Composer.

Revisiting Test Megamenu Item Static Block

  • Navigate to Static Content > Static Blocks.
  • It should display the “Pages Megamenu Item” that we created from previous section.
  • Click on edit and you should see an existing text block.
  • Delete the text edit block by hovering over the block and clicking on the button which has the trash icon.

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A complex Megamenu Item

1. The Grid

  • Our Complex Megamenu item will now have 4 columns.
  • On the top-right of each row, you will find a grid icon, next to the move icon.
  • Click on the grid icon and it will expand to various grid option available.
  • We will select a predefined grid which is 1/4 + 1/4 + 1/4 + 1/4.
  • Once you click on the predefined grid layout it will look like this :

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2. Populating the Grid

  • Visual Composer comes with lot of elements that can be added to the Grid.

Row 1 has 4 columns.

  • Column 1 – Click on the Add button. It should popup Add Element button. Let us add WP Custom Menu widget under WordPress Widgets. I have already created a menu (via Appearance > Menus).
    • Widget Title :
    • Menu : Pages Menu #1 ( name of the menu created already)
  • Column 2 – Click on the Add button. It should popup Add Element button. Let us add WP Custom Menu widget under WordPress Widgets. I have already created a menu (via Appearance > Menus).
    • Widget Title :
    • Menu : Pages Menu #2 ( name of the menu created already)
  • Column 3 – Click on the Add button. It should popup Add Element button. Let us add WP Custom Menu widget under WordPress Widgets. I have already created a menu (via Appearance > Menus).
    • Widget Title :
    • Menu : Pages Menu #3 ( name of the menu created already)
  • Column 4 – Click on the Add button. It should popup Add Element button. Let us add WP Custom Menu widget under WordPress Widgets. I have already created a menu (via Appearance > Menus).
    • Widget Title :
    • Menu : Pages Menu #4 ( name of the menu created already)

3. How does the Grid look after populating ?