Building Two Independent Menus on One Page with Wayfinder

Wayfinder could do more than build one ordinary site menu. This pattern solved a more unusual but very real layout problem: one page needed two independent menu blocks, with one set of items coming from the visible section and another from a hidden helper branch.

How the pattern worked

• one resource acted as the visible parent section
• a TV stored the title and helper branch ID for the second menu
• Wayfinder rendered each branch separately inside the page layout

Why it is worth preserving

This is exactly the kind of old Evo solution that shows the strength of documents + TVs + snippet composition. Instead of a special package, the site got a custom navigation structure from ordinary Evo building blocks.

Why this belongs in the timeline

Navigation patterns like this show how much could be accomplished in Evo with documents, TVs, and snippets alone. They are small patterns, but very representative ones.