Navigation based on Published docs

Developer help
1

Hi all

I’m sending on behalf of my client. This is a general question about navigation and I can’t send the url since the site is not ready.

We are using ghost 3.40.1, ghost-hosted.

Is there any way to have items in my navigation that display depending on whether they are published or not? It’s a bit of a headache to remove a menu item, unpublish the doc, then I have to re-add the item later on. I’d rather just leave the items in, then they will hide if unpublished.

Thanks.

2

No, you can’t set any condition in single nav links

3

Umm? Not sure what you’re asking.

4

He was saying it’s not possible to conditionally control (e.g. if it’s published) the navigation menu [from handlebars].

You might choose to use some javascript to control which navigation items are visible - since I don’t want to give you broken code, here’s the general algorithm:

  1. All of your pages that are linked from the navigation should have a #nav tag
  2. In your navigation area, use the get helper to fetch all published pages with the #nav tag
  3. Output the result of 2 as a script tag (e.g. final result should look like this:)
<script>
window.activeNavItems = ['slug-a', 'slug-b', 'slug-c'];
</script>
  1. Create a script that loops over the navigation elements and removes an element if the link isn’t in the activeNavItems array
5

Thanks, I appreciate it…will look into that.