Posted 10 months ago #
I am using the Wordpress Menu Creator on a couple of my real estate blogs and really love the simplicity and time savings.
We are about to change my main Missouri real estate website from a Joomla CMS to a Wordpress CMS. I understand that the Menu Creator will work with Cascading menus too. Is this correct and if so is it compatible with all Browsers?
Thanks,
RE Broker
Here is the detail about the Menu Creator.
It was built because we new Realtors wanted to optimize their site and have full control over menu items without hacking the template or trying to use other method by working the WP features.
The idea behind WP Menu Creator was to create an output in LIST ITEM STRUCTURE that is the most common method for building light, fast and cross browser usable menus.
Taking from the same structure used in OpenCube, SuckerFish, and other types of cascading menu systems the Menu Creator simply takes your menu items and depending on levels, will output a simple Unordered List or a nested Unordered List as in the case of cascading menus.
The designer would simply style the menu for the desired results. You can literally create hundreds, maybe thousands of menu designs using the list item markup.
List Items are standard HTML markup so its compatible with any browser that is compliant.
Jared Ritchey
Posted 10 months ago #
That is very encouraging Jared.
Can you use different menus on different pages with Menu Creator?
And would you recommend using Wordpress for a real estate website CMS over Joomla?
Thanks,
RE Broker
Basically I say the same thing to all Realtors considering WordPress. Joomla although the ideal solution for a brokerage is serious overkill for most people. It is so feature rich that its intimidating to novice or casual site administrators. Because of this 90% of all website conversions we do at UltimateIDX.com are for WordPress.
WordPress is easier to use, easier to learn, and fully capable of being structured as a CMS. A lot of people don't know that you can use WP as a CMS but with some clever template building tricks and a few settings in WP you can build a pretty nice CMS solution with it.
As per different menus on different pages the answer is yes. The easiest way to accomplish this in my opinion is WP Templates!
For instance, I created a site recently where the owner wanted to have a menu specific to "Communities" on his WP Blog so I created a new template titled communities.tpl.php and put this in the header;
<?php
/*
Template Name: COMMUNITIES
*/
?>
The template file would then include a different sidebar I created so instead of <?php get_sidebar(); ?> I use <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/communities.inc.php'); ?> which is a duplicate of sidebar but with a different menu.
My own sites new template has 11 menus in it and each is for a different section of my site, like tutorials or news for instance. I built my newest template to have multiple sidebars and all of which I simply assign by either some clever WP Looping or by template.
Jared Ritchey.
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