I’m getting set to change the theme on a number of my blogs. Yes I have several – that could be why I don’t write in this blog anywhere near as often as I should!
Anyway, I’ve been driving myself nuts trying to find the perfect themes to convert for my sites. I always customize my themes. I’ve also been looking at a lot of different plugins as well. I can certainly see how some people can get hooked on trying out plugins! There are so many handy ones, as well as ones that do cool things. I don’t think I need them all though.
I managed to convert one of my current sites over to widgets, but I’m using the KonteraControl plugin on that site to keep Kontera out of some of my posts. Trouble is – once I widgetized the site I have Kontera in posts that it shouldn’t be in!
I want to move ahead and change the theme for my main blog Tricia’s Musings and I’d love to finally widgetize the site since it makes it so much easier to change themes in the future. Plus the widgetized categories and pages allow for drop down lists – which is something that site really needs. However because of the kontera plugin problem I’ll have to wait on widgetizing that site.
Does anyone know of any good plugins that either make Archives, Categories and Pages into drop down lists or help in creating pages that will list them? I took a look at WP-dTree 3.2 and while it adds some very cool function to categories and achieves it doesn’t assist in making them drop down lists. I also tried WP Navigation Tool (NAVT) and it does create drop down lists for categories and pages, but doesn’t do it for the blogroll.
Anyone know of any other plugins that might do what I’d like them to do? Or perhaps some simple code to create a drop down menu?
Right now on Tricia’s Musings I’m using Floobles expandable javascript to create drop down menus but the javascript slows down the page load so if I must code my site in some way I’d rather not use javascript.
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Trish – a blogroll can be created using NAVT. Create a new group and then add external link items to the group. Just enter the name for the blogroll in the alias box and the URL in the box provided.
I realize it doesn’t grab the list from WordPress but a list comprised of links outside of your web site can be added in this way. You can also add “nofollow” to the external links you create and open the links in a new window.
What about using a reference file instead of having the code on the page? May speed it up a bit.
I like your theme, decent clean and easily readable.
Nice.
Interesting article. Im looking for the same functionality with drop downs. Any input appreciated. cheers!