Hype5 Stage 1.0.2 · Pre-release
Navigation, header and footer
Stage has one header menu, two footer menus and a footer widget area. The header shows top-level items only, by design.
Menu locations
Create menus in Appearance → Menus (or Customise → Menus) and assign them to Stage's locations:
| Location | Shown in | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Main menu | The header and the mobile menu | Top-level items only. The header has no drop-down menus; deeper items are not shown. Put deeper pages in a footer menu or link them from their parent page. |
| Footer: Explore | The footer, under Explore | Any number of links, one level. Shown only while the Footer columns widget area is empty. |
| Footer: legal links | The footer's bottom line | Privacy, accessibility and cookie pages, for example. Without this menu, Stage links WordPress's privacy policy page when one is set. |
The current page and the section it belongs to are marked for assistive technology (aria-current), not only visually.
Without a main menu
If no menu is assigned to Main menu, Stage shows a simple menu of up to seven links: the Hype5 Theater collections — schedule, productions and people, named with the plugin's own labels — when the plugin is active, followed by up to five top-level pages (the front page excluded). Stage never invents other links.
Header
From left to right: the logo (or the site title as a wordmark), the main menu, the header button, search and the Lights switch. On small screens the menu moves into the mobile menu.
- Header button — Tickets by default, linking to the Hype5 Theater schedule. Change the text and link, or switch the button off, in Customise → Hype5 Stage → Header and footer. It is never a purchase link unless you enter one, and it is hidden when there is no link (for example without Hype5 Theater and no link entered).
- Search — opens a search panel; without JavaScript it links to the search page. Can be switched off.
- Lights — the colour-scheme switch; see Lights up, Lights down and System.
Mobile menu
On small screens a Menu button opens the mobile menu as a dialog: focus stays inside it, Esc closes it, and focus returns to the button. It contains the main menu, the next performance with a link (with Hype5 Theater), the Lights choice and a search field.
Footer
The footer has the site logo or name with a short text about the company, then either your widget columns or the Explore links, and a bottom line with the small print and legal links.
| Part | Source |
|---|---|
| Site logo or name | Site Identity |
| About the company | Customise → Hype5 Stage → Header and footer → Footer: about the company; defaults to the site tagline |
| Footer columns or Explore | If the Footer columns widget area (Appearance → Widgets) has widgets, they are shown — up to four short columns, such as address, box-office hours and links — and the Explore column is not. If the area is empty, an Explore column shows the Footer: Explore menu, or, without that menu, the same fallback links as the header (Theater collections and top-level pages). |
| Small print | Customise → Hype5 Stage → Header and footer → Footer: small print; defaults to © year and site name |
| Legal links | The Footer: legal links menu, or the privacy policy link |
So if you add widgets to Footer columns and still want the Explore links, add them as a Navigation Menu widget.
The Footer columns area has its own ID, deliberately outside WordPress's theme-switch mapping, so another theme's footer widgets are not pulled into it when you switch to Stage. Add widgets to it yourself.
Breadcrumbs
Pages, posts and Hype5 Theater pages show a breadcrumb trail starting from Home. A private or draft parent page is not named in the trail.