Alternate main nav for blog archive page

[Leah]

Leah

May 12, 2016 at 3:49 am

Hi there,

I am hoping you can help, but understand if it is totally out-of-scope…

A website that I am working on has two sections. I would like these sections to have different main navigation. I have utilised the plugin Menu Replacement by BizzThemes, which gives a meta box to choose which menu to show on each page/post. It is working well on the whole, however, it is not working for the blog archive page.

I would like to work around this if possible I have thought of a couple of ways but am not sure how to implement:
1) set up a page (rather than the blog archive template) and use the blog shortcode to display posts. I have tried this, and it works great, but I can’t figure out how to get pagination to allow all posts to be searched. Is this possible?

2) somehow create an alternate head that applies the correct menu to this archive page.

I would prefer not to have the default menu for this page, due to the fact that the online store has so many products and is updated frequently and this has the other menu.

Thanks!