Building Nested Menus with Wayfinder

Wayfinder can build multilevel menus cleanly, but only if you prepare the template chunks for nested output instead of treating every item as flat markup.

Wayfinder is one of the classic tools for building nested menu trees in Evolution CMS. The key is to separate the outer wrapper, row template, and nested branch template so child items can render recursively.

Target structure

<ul>
  <li>...</li>
  <li>
    <ul>
      <li>...</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

Recommendation

Design Wayfinder chunks as a tree, not as one repeated row. Once your outer and inner templates are separated, nested menus become much easier to extend and style.

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