Title: Advice on theme
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Advice on theme

 *  [mattoman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattoman/)
 * (@mattoman)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advice-on-theme/)
 * 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](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advice-on-theme/#post-1419898)
 * > 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](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_post_thumbnail)
   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](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Javascript)
   and [wp_enqueue_script](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattoman/)
 * (@mattoman)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advice-on-theme/#post-1420018)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advice-on-theme/#post-1420027)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattoman/)
 * (@mattoman)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advice-on-theme/#post-1420050)
 * > 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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