How to Add a Drop Down Menu to your Theme
Written by Jai on April 2, 2008 – 4:32 pm - 2,195 views
A lot of people wanted to know the technique for adding a Drop Down Menu to their WordPress themes. So, here is a quick way to do this. This tweak will let you create menus, sub-menus and sub-sub-menus and it applies to your pages, categories and archives.
Step 1
Download the Suckerfish Dropdown Menu for WordPress. Even if you have installed WordPress 2.5 recently, this plugin works perfectly. Extract the plugin and put the files in your wp-content/plugins folder. Activate the plugin from your wp-admin section.
Step 2
Now, open your existing theme folder which you have applied to your WordPress installation. Most probably, you already have a navigation menu in the theme (most themes have it in the header.php file). So, just replace your existing menu code with this command :-
<?php suckerfish(); ?>
Save and close the file.
Step 3
This is the final step. Go to this online Suckerfish Dropdown CSS Generator, where you can generate a custom CSS file for your menu and copy it to your clipboard. Now go to your wp-admin and click on the Suckerfish option which you can find under the options menu (in WP 2.3) or the settings menu (WP 2.5). Paste the custom CSS information where it says “Enter your CSS here”. It might show something like #222 in the box which you can safely remove. The plugin also gives you options to choose the menu items that you want to display in the menu.
To test the functionality of this drop down menu, go ahead and make some pages and sub-pages. Preview your theme and it should work flawlessly. Let me know if you have any questions. Good luck!
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- Apr 8, 2008: [6] ???? ??????? ? ?????????
thnx for this tips
Hi,
Thanks for the post about my plugin and generator page
I need to fix that #222 problem. It’s meant to enter a standard looking CSS intially, but for some reason I forgot to add that and didn’t realise till recently.
I also have a beta version of the plugin which has some extra features … Beta Dropdown plugin
It is awesome tips..i already download and will try it out.
It’s a good ways.tks
This is what i want,thanks for your guide.
Any tips how to install this into Semiologic custom.php file?
Thanks
Hi Jai,
I struggled with it for about 4 hours last night and couldn’t sort out how to add Suckerfish to your Chronicles theme. This is the last piece I need to move my site to that theme permanently (or at least for a long time). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for the help!
If this can be accomplished, I’ll be hitting that PayPal donate button.
Bob
P.S. With a little Wordpress.org forums help I was able to get the graphic into the right place at the top right of the website.
Here there a way to make a menu for the side navigation bars on WP?