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1. Bubby66
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi
   First time on here so hope you can help?

   I need to amend the theme of my website so that I can have drop down menus.

   I downloaded a plugin to do this but I was advised that my theme does not support this function.

   Can I change the theme easily to have this function?

   I am not sure which plugin I need and I am a little scared that I will muck up the site if I just change the theme.

   website address is http://www.stokemandevillecombined.co.uk. I am voluntarily creating the website for the primary school and learning on the job!

   Any help or guidance would be very appreciated.

   Thank you

2. zeaks
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Adding a dropdown menu is usually fairly complicated. If you're worried about "mucking" up the site just by changing the theme, then you probably won't want to start adding a dropdown menu to it.

   Changing your sites theme shouldn't change anything else on it, but the theme. It may disable widgets if the new theme you choose doesn't happen to have a right sidebar, but that's easily fixed in your admin section.

   You could try contacting the author of the theme and asking them if they would realse a version with da dropdown menu too.

3. chellycat
   Administrator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Well, if you want to give creating a drop-down menu a try, you could always just back up all of your theme files somewhere on your local computer. Then if you muck things up, you'll have your backup to fall back on.

   The WordPress default theme, twenty-ten, supports drop-down menus. One idea would be to take a look in the twenty-ten style.css file and find all style rules related to the main navigation. Copy those rules over, and then paste them into your theme's style.css.

   Then open the twenty-ten header.php file, and copy all code having to do with the navigation menu. Then paste those into your theme's header.php file. Make sure you enable support for wordpress nav menus in your functions.php file.

   There will be adjustments to make, and you'll have to change the colors, sizing and spacing to match your theme. Lots of trial and error.

   For the future, you might also want to look into installing WordPress on your personal computer. You could download XAMPP, MAMP (if you're on a Mac) or WAMP (Google them) which will set up a web server on your own computer. You can then install WordPress and test out new features like these without worrying about messing with a live site.

4. Bubby66
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thank you very much for you advice. I will have a look at the options you suggest and see how I get on! I may be back.... :)

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