Dymanimcally add links in main menu (e.g. last 4 nodes)

Question

I have main navigation menu with root menu items. A request is that one of those have links to latest 4 nodes of a certain content type. So for example if I have a structure similar to this:

-Parent item:

• child item 4

• child item 3

• child item 2

• child item 1

(All child items are all of the same content type, for example Article)

When a user adds a new node of the content type Article, the structure should be the following:

-Parent item:

• child item 5

• child item 4

• child item 3

• child item 2

All I can think of is to use Views to make a list of linked titles in a block and then to attach the block to the menu (i'm using TB Mega Menu which allows this). The solely problem with this approach is that I then don't have trail of active menu items in menu.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Make the URLs static; have the content of those URLs change

You were on the right track with views. But don't use it to create a block with the links, use it to create a page that displays the full rendered entity of the last node of your content type. You can give it a URL like /latest-article.

You could get fancy and use contextual arguments to display the 2nd, 3rd, ... offsets (e.g. /latest-article/%) or you could just add four more displays to the view, each with the offset bumped up by one.

Answer 2

First, in the you can choose what menu and what parent should those links go . That way, all the new links should appear where you wish.

Then, using Rules and Menu Rules you can make disappear the oldest menu link when you add a new one.