Drupal 7 - Content structure advice

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I'm pretty new to Drupal, I've done some maintenance works on some websites, but nothing very complicated.

I'm developing now a website with Drupal 7 and I would like to get some advice about the structure of my content to get what I need.

Here is the structure of my Main-menu:

|About us
| - item_about 1
| - item_about 2
| - item_about 3
|Contact
| - item_contact 1
| - item_contact 2
| - item_contact 3

In my main navigation, I have only the top level items of Main-menu (About us and Contact) without any drop down for sub items.

  1. I would like to have a secondary menu (on the left) on About us page with sub items of About us. And I would like them to open inside About us page as a sub content, not in a new page. Do you see what I mean? :) Can I do this only with my Main-menu structure or do I need to change my content structure? I check the Node Hierarchy module, but I'm not sure to see exactly how I can use it to fit my needs.

  2. On the homepage, I would like to have three blocks with Contact's sub items content (and a Read more button). How can I "query" like my Main-menu structure to get Contact's sub item linked page content?

Once again, is it possible with my current structure or not?

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drupaldrupal-7

2 Answers

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Please check below the solution to get menu blocks on desired page and set target attributes for the links

These three modules allowed you to achieve the desired one.

Hope this will help you.

1
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Answer to your prayers is menu block module:

https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_block

With standard drupal installation when ever you make some menu you automatically get menu block for it. But it doens't have too much options.

Manu block allows you to create another block(s) out of your menu, but with more options. One of them is to select just a branch instead of whole menu tree and to select what levels of menu should be displayed in menu block you create.

If you need some more advanced block placing manipulation (what block to place where in what situation) check out on conntext module too:

https://www.drupal.org/project/context