If you look at the new default theme for WordPress 3, it fully supports custom drop down menu’s right in the admin panel under apperance->menu’s. Depending on the theme you are using it should support submenu’s by defualt.
I’ve made some progress based on walker classes but havent gotten ti working quite as needed because wordpress doesnt appear to handle the root nodes of the taxonomy tree in the same way as the child ones. As a result, it prunes the end menu items, but if the parent of that node is a … Read more
For Home, you can use a custom links, the second box in the left column, referring to your screenshoot. For the blog, you must have a page where there are all the categories except “portfolio” and “in the works”. The link it using custom links
The problem is that wp_nav_menu() should really only ever be calling theme_location, not menu. The Theme defines menu locations, and then places those menu locations in the template. The user defines menus, and assigns menus to theme locations. So, change this: <?php wp_nav_menu(‘menu=services_menu’); ?> …to this: <?php wp_nav_menu( ‘theme_location=services_menu’ ); ?>
Can’t you just target .current-menu-item along with .current_page_item?
Once the category is selected it would be pretty easy with the help of wp_nav_menu to check what category is currently selected using is_category and then load the menu you need. This would be defined in your page template or header (depending on where your menu is loaded) if (is_category(‘category 1’)) { wp_nav_menu( array(‘menu’ => … Read more
I see that you are have a hard time on this so here: <?php global $post; $curent_post = $post; $curent_post_id = $post->ID $parents = array(‘4′,’6′,’8′,’10’); if (in_array($post->post_parent,$parents)){ query_posts(“post_type=page&post_parent=”.$post->post_parent.”&orderby=menu_order&order=asc”); } if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/12054/<?php the_permalink(); if ($curent_post_id = $post->ID){ echo” class=”highlight”‘; } ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a> and … Read more
Problem is that you’d need to pass a $post->ID in order to not return false. Better use is_object_in_taxonomy($object_type, $taxonomy) and fill both the term and the tax in the function. It returns (boolean), so simply add your class based on the result: echo $class = is_object_in_taxonomy( ‘news’, ‘your_taxonomy’ ) ? ‘current-whatever’ : ”; // or: … Read more
If you don’t see your custom post types or taxonomies, look under the Screen Options to make sure they are checked to be Show on Screen.
you could filter gettext to change it. Note that this will change every translatable instance of “Profile”. function change_admin_profile_to_account( $thename ){ $thename = str_replace( ‘Profile’, ‘Account’, $thename ); return $thename; } add_filter( ‘gettext’, ‘change_admin_profile_to_account’ );