The Blog Links in SmartWave Porto Mega Menu

Posted: January 23, 2018

Categories: Magento 2 Blog Extension User Guide

Comments: 14

If you have already installed Magento 2 Blog Module v2.6.2 (or later) you can easily add a blog and blog categories links to the SmartWave Mega Menu.

Please, follow the steps listed below.

1. Log into your Magento 2 admin panel.
2. Go to the Content > Blocks.
3. Find a block with the identifier "porto_custom_menu" and open its edit page.
4. Add this code to the block content:

5. Save the changes & flush Magento cache.
6. Check :-)

You can also use another menu_type values (staticwidth, fullwidth) to change a look of the blog submenu items.

Does it help or not? Let us know in the comments below.

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14 Comment(s)

justin dee

my blog is showing blog link, but no drop down menu.

Reply Aug 21, 2019 01:28

Magefan

Justin, please make sure that the option "Include In Menu" is enabled in your blog categories

Reply Aug 23, 2019 09:23

Bram Slagboom

Best, The blog in the Porto theme magento 2 Megamenu is showing only one item. How to show all items or at least 5 or something?

Reply Aug 07, 2018 15:53

Ihor Vansach

Please make sure that in blog category settings category it included in the menu.

Reply Aug 07, 2018 16:48

Josef Mizera

Hi, I am using move storeviews. And I want to use blog in top mega menu only on one of them. I have created block with the following:
<ul>
<li class="ui-menu-item level0"><a class="level-top" href="{{store url=''}}blog"><span>Blog</span></a></li>
</ul>
only for one website, but the button is on all storeviews, and now I cannot remove it by disabling of the block or even by uninstalling the extension.

Reply Jun 15, 2018 13:57

MageFan Support

Hello Josef, we assume that you have added this HTML to the CMS Block (static block) in Admin Panel. If yes, then this is a static block that does not depend's on blog status (enabled/disabled).

You need to create 2 separate CMS Blocks with the same "Identifier" for different store views one WITH "blog" link and another one WITHOUT "blog" link and assign each block to a proper store view. Please note that this is not how our Blog extension works, it's about how you need to manage CMS Blocks on multi-language (multi-store) Magento.

Reply Jun 16, 2018 09:49

Josef Mizera

Hello, I have had this HTML in the static block Porto - Custom Block (after), but in the Mega menu configuration was this block empty, in case that I fill this Custom Block (after) to mega menu configuration I have the block BLOG 2 times. I have also tried to disable / delete the block Custom Block (after) but no luck. So I am bit confused about the process how to remove BLOG from the top menu.

Reply Jun 29, 2018 10:02

Josef Mizera

I found a solution - the code has been also added to a file /app/design/frontend/Smartwave/porto/Smartwave_Megamenu/templates/topmenu.phtml
When i removed the part of the code I can easily organize the blocks on separate storeviews. Thanks

Reply Jun 29, 2018 10:58

Elad

doesn't work for me..
i have the following code in html in the porto custome menu block:
<ul>
<li class="ui-menu-item level0">
<a href="#" class="level-top"><span>Features</span></a>
</li>
</ul>

i added {{block class="Magefan\Blog\Block\Smartwave\Megamenu\Topmenu" menu_type="classic" }}
but noting has changed on frontend menu..
please assist

Reply Apr 18, 2018 09:34

Magefan

Please make sure that you are using the blog version greater than 2.7.1

Reply Apr 19, 2018 10:40

Max

your code is an image... Can't copy it !

Reply Feb 20, 2018 19:02

Magefan

Yes, it is. We use WYSIWYG to manage posts, so we cannot enter this code as a text, it will be rendered.
You can copy from there:
{{block class="Magefan\Blog\Block\Smartwave\Megamenu\Topmenu" menu_type="classic" }}