Website Hierarchy Menu Builder
Organize Complex Website Structures with Unlimited Parent-Child Pages & Dynamic Card Grids in Odoo 16
Stop hand-building complex sub-section landing pages and navigation menus.
Organize your website into structured parent-child trees and automatically generate beautiful card gridsâboth as SEO-friendly public pages and drag-and-drop Website Builder snippets.
Why Hand-Building Multi-Level Website Navigation Fails
Large websites with multiple solutions, services, or documentation nodes require clear parent-child navigation. Hand-crafting overview pages, broken breadcrumbs, and individual link cards for every sub-category takes endless time and breaks whenever pages move. This module centralizes page structure in a high-performance tree and auto-renders public browsing grids and live Website Builder snippets effortlessly.
Powerful Hierarchy & Card Grid Features
An end-to-end building block for content managers and web designers building structured Odoo sites.
Unlimited Parent-Child Nesting
Built on Odoo's high-performance _parent_store for fast tree lookups. Re-order items with drag handles, track breadcrumbs automatically, and compute depth levels.
Rich Card Customization
Link cards to internal Website Pages or custom URLs. Style cards with custom images, Font Awesome icon fallbacks, 8 Bootstrap color themes, and custom CSS classes.
SEO-Friendly Public Pages
Fully server-side rendered routes (/website-hierarchy) give search engine crawlers direct access to clean breadcrumb navigation and indexed sub-page links.
Interactive Builder Snippet
Drag the "Hierarchy Menu Cards" block onto any page in the Odoo Website Builder. Choose a root node in the option panel for instant, AJAX-powered card grid previews.
Technical Architecture & Performance
Engineered natively for Odoo 16 with clean controllers, widgets, and access rights.
Model & Controller Routes
| Component | Implementation |
|---|---|
| Core Model | website.hierarchy.menu |
| Public Listing | GET /website-hierarchy |
| Node Detail & Breadcrumb | GET /website-hierarchy/<id> |
| Snippet AJAX Rendering | POST .../render_cards |
Presentation & Security
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Visibility Switches | Independent Menu & Card toggles |
| Multi-Website Scoping | Optional website_id binding |
| Security Groups | Website Publisher & Designer |
| Frontend Widgets | Odoo Website Builder publicWidget |
Quick Setup Guide
| 1. | Go to Website â Configuration â Hierarchy Menu Builder and create your root nodes and child tree. |
| 2. | Configure link targets (Website Page or Custom URL), add subtitles, FontAwesome icons, images, and select a color theme. |
| 3. | Visit /website-hierarchy to inspect your server-rendered public category pages and breadcrumbs. |
| 4. | In the Website Builder edit mode, drag the Hierarchy Menu Cards snippet onto any page and select your root node to display dynamic cards! |
User Interface Walkthrough
Designed seamlessly to fit standard Odoo 16 Website Builder tools and backend administration views.
Future Development Roadmap
- SEO-optimized slug URLs (e.g.
/website-hierarchy/solutions/web-development). - Automatic top-level
website.menusync toggle based onis_menu_visiblesettings. - Pre-rendered server-side initial DOM injection for snippet cards to further enhance crawlability.
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