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WordPress Menu Creator 2.0

Making a big jump from WP Menu Creator 1.7 to version 2.0 as we have sat on updates for many weeks eagerly awaiting a look at WordPress 2.9 before we committed to anything. I’m happy to say that WP Menu Creator will work with version 2.9 of WordPress.

What new features are in the new Menu Creator?

  • You can add your page or post to a menu while in the WYSWYG editor. Simply select the menu, title it, and publish.
  • A new page / post look-up feature will provide you with an easy way to get the page or post ID while in the Menu Creator panel. No more need to go searching.
  • Better image support for menus that will provide you with quick edit features.
  • The ability to reset the menu ID and the ability to edit the menu name. Requested dozens of times so its going to be a feature.
  • Saving the best for the last, the Menu Creator will have a CSS feature where you can save and edit the CSS for each individual menu.

I’ll post more when it is available.

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  • Leslie

    Can’t wait to be able to use this! :)

  • http://www.sdrealtypros.com/ Geoff@San Diego Homes

    It sounds like the new Menu Creator will really streamline the process of editing the navigation bars. The version 1.7 has been great for helping me visualize the site structure and easily transfer that vision into the navigation structure. The ability to post to the nav bar directly from the WYSIWYG editor will definitely save time by eliminating an extra step from the process.
    .-= Geoff@San Diego Homes´s last blog ..San Diego Luxury Home Foreclosures =-.

    • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared Ritchey

      WP Menu Creator was in part a learning process in how best to provide CMS like menu management features to WordPress users. With this new version, there will be little excuse to consider alternative options.

  • http://www.boatsonsale.com.au watt@cruiser boats for sale

    I can’t wait for this I wanna to have try with this. Its sounds very good and effective.

    • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared Ritchey

      If interested I’ll email you a copy to test, i still have a few small things I want to tie in.

  • scott mann

    v. 1.1.7 doesn’t support Chinese. Can you please fix that? Thanks.

  • http://homeimprovementteam.com dave@home improvements

    I just started using this plugin and I love it, thank you for all your hard work and keeping updated with the upgrades :)
    .-= dave@home improvements´s last blog ..How To Fix a Leaking Faucet =-.

  • http://seoyourblog.com chakkravarthi@seo your blog

    I will be waiting for this release and if possible I will review it on my blog too :)
    .-= chakkravarthi@seo your blog´s last blog ..5 Tips On How To Decide On Your Blog’s Niche =-.

  • http://seoyourblog.com/wordpress-seo/ chakkravarthi@wordpress seo

    Sounds interesting to me, because this will be really helpful for me on some of my blogs. I will try to give it a run and see how cool it is. :)

    Thanks mate
    .-= chakkravarthi@wordpress seo´s last undefined ..If you register your site for free at =-.

  • http://www.edsager.com Edward P. Sager

    I love the idea of being able to use CSS. Is there a potential release date available?

  • http://hollistercahomesforsale.com Blane@Hollister Ca Homes For Sale

    I’ve loaded WordPress on my site, but I will have to get some help getting the MLS feed up and running. This sounds promising.
    .-= Blane@Hollister Ca Homes For Sale´s last blog ..More on Selling Hollister Ca Homes =-.

    • http://www.ultimateidx.com SEOWolf

      We have had a lot of REALTORS implement our WordPress Menu Manager. Hope you like it.

      If you need some help with your MLS I think a live Demo of the UltimateIDX will convince you that we have the absolute BEST solution in the market.

      ~SEOWolf

  • http://www.free-sat-nav.co.uk/ Ryan@free sat nav

    I will be implementing this plugin on my new blog to see how it goes.

    Thanks for this!

  • http://www.erage.nl Webdesign Roosendaal

    Hey this sounds great! I’ve got a couple of new websites coming up in WordPress. I’ll be sure to take a look at this plugin for future use. Should certainly come in handy!
    .-= Webdesign Roosendaal´s last blog ..Professionele presentatie bouwbureau Holm de Jong =-.

  • http://systemcore.co.uk rcain

    Hi,
    Great plugin, however, I have a slight problem (detailed here http://wordpress.org/support/topic/368698 – apologies for multiple posts – i though i’d fixed it, but i hadnt).

    when i attempt to access a post or category that doesnt exist, the plugin breaks the site (shows only a portion of raw text from footer.php, missing out all site header and content!).

    i have 4 calls to displayMenu in all – 2 in header.php, 1 in sidebar.php and 1 in footer.php. The second call in header.php seems to be the one that breaks it.

    can you shed any light on this?

    thanks for any help.

    • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared Ritchey

      Hey can you please send me the URL to your site so I can see the rendered code.
      Keep in mind too, I have a brand new update I’m releasing this weekend.

  • Rob Morris

    I have tried to make this work but without details for dummies. It’s almost impossible to make this work. I entered items into my menu. Put the php into my header and got nothing. It’s obvious I didn’t do it right, but there just aren’t enough details or examples. It’s a lot of guess work. Shouldn’t a plug in make things easier?

    I guess everyone assumes that we know exactly what your talking about.

    • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared Ritchey

      No they don’t and we acknowledge our docs are sparse. I’m working on docs as the plugin is updated.

  • Nalin

    Hi,
    Great Plugin. I’m using your plugin in my latest project but i have little problem. I want to create drop down menu Eg: http://encloseonline.com/. i have two levels in this menu. That means when i mouse over the parent link the child links set should appear. I used this code . but it shows whole parent and child list at once.. any way to figure this out?

    Please help
    Thanks,
    nalin

    • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared Ritchey

      If you can send me an email directly via this sites contact form. I’ll fix it then publish the fix here in the blog for others.

  • http://www.merrittsupply.com Ariestee

    Cool! Is this available right now? Can I have free trial using this tool?

    • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared Ritchey

      Yes I just haven’t had time to update it at WordPress. I’ll do that before the day is over.

      • http://www.edsager.com Edward Sager

        Hey Jared,

        Just wondering if you had had time to to update this at WordPress.

        Anxiously awaiting a look at this plug-in,
        Edward

        • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared Ritchey

          Not yet but if you want to beta test it I’ll send it to you.

  • http://www.edsager.com Edward Sager

    Would love to beta test.

    Thank you!

  • Ryd

    Would love beta test too.
    Can you send me the beta version to my mail? I need it for my current WP project.

    Thanks, very much appreciated.
    Best regards, Ryd.

    • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared Ritchey

      I’ll get it posted hopefully by the first of the week for anyone interested.

  • http://www.lipstick-tips.com Alyssa

    looks like a great script.. the menus on the left of your site work really well. Much better than many I have seen. thanks for bringing the script to my attention!

  • Lisa Cowan

    I’ve installed the plugin, but cannot find the manage link. I’ve probably been sitting at the computer to long to be effective. Please let me know what I am missing.

    Thanks,
    Lisa

    • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared Ritchey

      Send me a contact request and I’ll do it for you.

  • Aaron

    would it be possible to get a beta version of this as well? i would love to be able to use the newer version of the menu plugin on my new site.

    • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared Ritchey

      Yeah it will be published for download this weekend.

  • http://w3b.it Mad Max

    Any news on the upcoming release? Can’t wait any more! ;D

    • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared Ritchey

      Yeah been very busy working on all the plugins but it will be released hopefully this coming week.

  • http://www.funmelamasti.com/ Jason

    hi i just have one quick question. Can you please tell me what plugin you are using to create menus on your website?

    thanks
    .-= Jason´s last blog ..Funny video: evolution of the dance!!!! =-.

    • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared Ritchey

      We use the Menu Creator, a plugin we publish free on WordPress

  • http://systemcore.co.uk rob cain

    Hi,

    Firstly, really nice plugin. Thanks for this. Domt know why WP havent included something like it in core yet. Couple of suggestions:

    1)I tend to use WP as a CMS rather than simple blog. Consequentially, site taxonomies can get quite complex. In particular, I needed to make your menu-creator plugin (V1.1.6) sensitive, not only to ‘current page’ but also to sub-pages, categories, taxonomies, etc, when setting the ‘current_page_item’ class on the ‘active’ menu item(s).

    I came up with a mod/hack to do this. Thought you might be interested in making it available in your core app. The approach would be quite simple:

    file: menu-creator.lib.php
    function: displayMenuFromItems
    change line from:

    if (is_page($item["value"])) {

    change line to (something like):

    if (is_page($item["value"]) || (function_exists(wpmc_is_in_context) && wpmc_is_in_context($item))) {

    …. thus providing a custom application exit (filter) on precisely how and when the currently active menu item is set.

    the user/site developer then has a choice of providing/defining an optional user function, ‘wpmc_is_in_context’ (returning true or false) to determine this, eg. defined within functions.php within theme dir.

    in addition to the above i also added a new field (db, admin and object) called ‘active_context’ (string). this gets passed in item var above and is thus able to further refine pattern matching requirements of the user defined ‘wpmc_is_in_context’ function.

    drop me a line if you’d like further details.

    2) customer had requirement to mix colours (html effects) within menu titles. whilst v1.1.6 just about supports this, it does have problems editing html markup within menu titles, once set up. (to do with wp options stripping, htmlentities, etc). would be nice if it gracefully allowed maintenence of html markup withing menu titles.

    many thanks again, hope these are of some interest/use.

    • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared Ritchey

      Thank you for your comment Rob;
      In version 1.1.9 we have something like this is added in as well as support for WordPress MU.

  • http://www.DBKwebDevelopment.com DonnaNJ

    I’m trying to use this on this site

    The top row is the original menu…If you hover on history-you see the sub menus.

    the second row the history sub-cats are showing as a third row.

    I think it’s the js for the hover…but I don’t know how to fix it

    Donna-NJ

    • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared Ritchey

      Something appears to be stripping the closing tags on each list element.

  • http://www.findjimbaranvillas.com/ Riko@Jimbaran Villas

    Hi, How to make web centre in WYSWYG editor? I used this software but every I make a website, its always lies to the left of the page..thanks

    Looking for Villas in Jimbaran Bali

    • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared Ritchey

      Can you show me so I can take a look and see how to fix for you?