If you are developing a site that uses WordPress as a CMS for part of the website and custom php pages for other sections it can be useful to utilise the functions built into WordPress on non-Wordpress pages.
One useful example is to use the WordPress menu system to manage the site’s menus. With its ability to add custom links, … more
In our last menu tutorial we looked at creating a custom style sheet for the mega drop down menu plugin. Today we are going to go through the jQuery Vertical Mega Menu Plugin and how we can use the plugin’s built in CSS classes combined with the inherent WordPress menu classes to create a completely customised menu.
The sample … more
With the custom WordPress menus available with WordPress 3.0 there are inherent systems that allow us to identify which is the current menu item and it’s parent links. Unfortunately these aren’t very obvious and going through the source code to pick them out can be a nightmare.
Today we are going to highlight a few of these classes and demonstrate … more
In today’s tutorial we are going to go through how to create your own CSS file for the WordPress Mega drop down menu plugin and with just a few additional CSS styles, fully customise your navigation to create more exciting and unique menus.
The objective of the tutorial will be to create a complete set of CSS rules … more
With all of the different types of vertical menu WordPress plugins out there it can sometimes be confusing as to what is the best option for your own WordPress site.
Today we review the 3 vertical menu plugins available on this site and summarise which one to use for each situation.
The Vertical Menu Options
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Following up to the 2 recent WordPress menu plugins we launched we thought we should do a quick tutorial on how to add a widget area to your WordPress theme.
Both of the plugins, the jQuery Mega Menu and the jQuery Vertical Accordion Menu use widget areas as a quick and easy way to add custom menus to your WordPress … more
By default pages in WordPress websites will not display blog posts. However, there is a quick an easy way to edit the code of your theme page to handle this.
1. WordPress Theme Page Code
First create a new page for your theme. Then add the following code to the web page in the area where you normally display the … more
