Currently we have about 30 submitted sites that use the WordPress Menu Creator and we are going to publish these and others in three separate categories. The categories are; Theme developers that distribute the Menu Creator in their themes, Sites that use the Menu Creator, Sites that use third party themes converted to work with menu creator. Although the actual titles of these categories are not set in stone as of yet, they do represent the three main areas we want to share with users of this plug-in. I’ll explain a little more on what each category will represent and you can submit your feedback or link for inclusion in the page of examples that are befitting of these categories. Once your example is published in these categories, you can link back if you so desire and naturally submit additional examples as you make them available. I’ll return to this post a little later and provide links to each of those categories. Lets look at what each of these categories will be applied to and how we intend on using them;
Since we make it super easy to distribute the Menu Creator in themes, we decided to create a category that will feature details and links back to those theme developers. The theme developer simply submits a few short paragraphs about their theme, a screen shot, the link they want us to publish and we are going to start providing links to those in support of the WordPress Menu Creator. Our only requirement is that the short summary you submit must state that it employs the WP Menu Creator.
Why distribute WP Menu Creator in your theme? Simple! Its void of any link back requirements, we do not advertise or solicit products or services in the plug-in, there are no heavy branding or other types of “thou shalt worship us” phrases in the plug-in, its super easy to implement into your theme for distribution given the code we provide and there is no cost to you. You gain by providing the absolute best possible menu management solution available for WordPress which is so flexible it can literally accommodate any type of CSS / XHTML compliant menu system. We already have many theme developers publishing themes with the Menu Creator for you to examine their solutions.
We get requests to help theme designers and webmasters implement the WP Menu Creator several times a week. After having provided technical assistance and even examples of the code to many of our plug-in users, we decided that we are going to start publishing summary details and links to those projects or developers that use the Menu Creator. Like the category above, when we publish the details, we all also publish a one way link back to the project site and even a screen shot of the menu system being employed.
The idea behind this is simple. When we first built the WP Menu Creator we knew that it would need to be so flexible that it would literally accommodate hundreds if not thousands of different types of CSS / XHTML compliant menus for WordPress. Like our new WP Form Creator or the WP Zillow plug-ins we also publish, we decided that maybe the best way to make our products truly flexible is to simply not deliver any CSS markup for styling. We didn’t want users of the products to think that these were the only possible styling options thereby giving us a poor rating on the power of the Menu Creator or Form Creator for instance.
Almost daily, we receive about a half a dozen requests for help in using the WP Menu Creator with third party themes like those published by Thesis or StudioPress themes among many others. Although we are happy to provide assistance to users of our plug-in, the number of requests at times becomes a bit high and difficult to keep up with. These types of themes differ from the average site owner or developer of custom works in that these themes are most often commercial and are usually quite popular with literally thousands of bloggers using them. Because of this we have published code snippets and instructions on how to modify some of the more popular themes for use with the Menu Creator and will begin publishing those examples today in the new section we have setup. The number one problem with WordPress Menu Management is the requirement that most theme developers essentially require you to manage your menu by managing the way you publish your content. This is neither effective or consistent with proper menu management.
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Just letting you know your plugin has one flaw: it has no way of telling it whether the ID number is a page or a post. What I mean is I tried to create a "Post or Page" menu item but in my case I have a post=7 id and also a cat_id=7. So I already made a menu item for page 7 and now I am trying to create a menu item for category 7 but when I enter 7 in the text-field it keeps using the url for the page id #7 instead.
Get what I mean? What are we supposed to do when we have pages and categories with same number?
Sorry, forgot to mention. You say in your notes to make sure the first item we create is order #0, well I tried that and what happened was after I clicked the "save" button the menu item never appeared under the Menu. It acted as if I never created a menu item. The second time I did it I set the first item as order #1 THEN it appeared under the Menu I was creating links for.
I have lots of interest in themes and plug-ins but i have not much knowledge about it. I have my one blog in word press but i am not much friendly with its features. I have to learn about it to get friendly with all the features in it.
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Hi, I have a multilingual website and I wonder if it is possible to use the post/page ID in the title too so it uses the title for the language instead of always showing the English title (qtranslate plugin).
That will be really a neat feature to have as the whole interface is being translated when a user switching the language.
First, thanks for the PlugIn!
My question: How can I hide Items for users not logged in?
I tried to nest a new menu into an existing and decide by php if it will be insered or not. But the second menu starts again with the -Tag an so it won't integrate the way I need.
At best your plugin would work together with the "User Access Manager"-PlugIn! Is that possible?
It can be found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-access-manager/
Hope for help, thanks.
Lastly, your section on WP ) faq #6 says tutorials can be found at https://www.ultimateidx.com/ but the link after the text "Please see the link below for tutorials and menu structure examples and source code." takes me right back to where I started from. No tutorials, no examples, no java for tiered menus... Help!!
I'm having a ton of trouble with your last step "Last, add your CSS styling for the menu and any javascript required for the drop down menus and you are ready to start publishing links." It seems so simple, but what javascript, how to add it, where to add it, and how to get it to work with your menu? all the java for pull down menus that I can find are just manually create your menu in html. Html is not so bad but how to integrate the java with your plugin? do you have a specific recommendation and steps for how to accomplish it? Everything else in your plugin is good and easy to use but it's all garbage (at least for me) if I can't get drop downs. That's why I'm looking for a WordPress menu solution. Thanks!
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Item 6 in "Installation" seems to be missing a couple of somethings (my questions in ()):
6.Place the following code between (between what 2 things) the section of your template header.php file. (usually the > at the end of this line has a complementary
How to finish the installation?
Internet is so wide and there are lots of websites in the web world, word-press is the only thing which provides the best themes to the uses. It's menu creator is really a nice service through which many people can take the benefits of the word-press.
Maybe I'm missing something that is obvious but I can't seem to find your code snippets anywhere. I'm truly hopeful for this plugin as menu creation has been a real thorn in my side for some time now with Wordpress. I hate being stuck with the menu system that the theme developer creates -not thinking that I may need multiple levels, different structure, ect. I'd love to incorporate this plugin in all my WP sites but I can't seem to find good CSS code that works well with your plugin working with multiple levels of dropdown... Am I missing a page or a link somewhere?