Partially-Dynamic Navigation

A par­tial­ly dynam­ic nav­i­ga­tion is one that pulls in some nav­i­ga­tion items via Ele­ment queries in Craft. A typ­i­cal exam­ple of this is a drop-down that has addi­tion­al sub­pages under the main nav­i­ga­tion item.

On the CraftQuest site, I recent­ly set this up on the Quests nav­i­ga­tion item. In this imple­men­ta­tion, I’m using an Ele­ment query to fetch all of the Quests, dis­play the title and short descrip­tion, and link it up with the entry URL. This approach allows me to keep the nav­i­ga­tion sim­ple and fast while mak­ing it dynam­ic exact­ly where it needs to be.