Advice on theme

  • mattoman

    (@mattoman)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    Ive recently decided to bust my brain and learn everything i can about adding wordpress to my website. Basically i want to use it as a CMS & Blog in one..

    Heres a preview of the site so far:
    http://www.foreshore-dynamic.com/wordpress

    This is my first custom theme and its still under major development in the back-end and ive run into some problems that have left me pulling my hair out.

    First Problem is to do with plug-ins.. There are so many out there and ive tried a fair few ‘Cms’ plug-ins but cant seem to find what im after. I’m after a simple plugin that works similar to expression engine (The cms i am used to) Which has a couple of fields, first being a title, second being content then a third being a image ect..

    The second is to do with the menu and permlinks. I want to add a dropdown menu to two of the nav items which i am comfortable doing with css/html but cant seem to find a method which will allow me to leave my `<?php wp_list_pages(‘sort_column=menu_order&title_li=’); ?>’ in the header. When i try using just html in the header i run into all sorts of problems which i think has something to do with permalink’s. (The javascript doesn’t seem to work either) I also want the navigation to be lowercase while still keeping the title on each page uppercase.. (Not sure if possible).

    I’m not sure how or if i can attach the theme files so far just in-case someone wanted to see what ive come up with.

    Thank you!

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    I’m after a simple plugin that works similar to expression engine (The cms i am used to) Which has a couple of fields, first being a title, second being content then a third being a image ect..

    You don’t need any plugins for these. WP handles title and content already and the new(ish) post thumbnails functions should provide you with the post->image connection that you want.

    With regard to your menu problem, what about using wp_list_pages and excluding the 2 top level pages that you want to have dropdowns and then adding custom code for these two?

    The javascript doesn’t seem to work either

    Have you read up on Using_Javascript and wp_enqueue_script?

    I also want the navigation to be lowercase while still keeping the title on each page uppercase

    Very easy via CSS. Something like:

    #sidebar li a {text-transform:lowercase;}

    should be all that you need.

    Thread Starter mattoman

    (@mattoman)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks, I didn’t realise it was easy as modifying the css for the text transform.. Don’t know why i didn’t think of this! Im still not sure how i could add a dropdown menu though.. I guess ill need to create a new page under the page i want the dropdown and go from there?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    There are quite a few dropdown menu plugins if you want to take that route. Personally, I’ve tended to go for the CSS approach which pushes the sub-menu off the page until the parent ul block has focus.

    Thread Starter mattoman

    (@mattoman)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    There are quite a few dropdown menu plugins if you want to take that route. Personally, I’ve tended to go for the CSS approach which pushes the sub-menu off the page until the parent ul block has focus.

    I’d like to see some examples or maybe you could point me in the right direction of a tutorial that uses drop down with wordpress.

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