WordPress Menu Creators

[Barry O'Callaghan]

Hi All,
I'm looking to get full control over what is and what is not displayed on my menus - My main top menu (my only menu for the time being) in particular.

I've seen a number of different options and admittedly I haven't thouroughly investigated them all but so far I haven't seen anything that's simple to use and powerful at the same time.

Some of the ones I've seen are

Menu Creators
The aptly named WordPress Menu Creator

PixoPoint Menu Plugin

Multi-level Navigation Plugin


There's also the very handy but basic Exclude Page Plugin

Personally I'm not really looking for something to design the menu (though this option could be handy), my main priority is to have the option to control what does and doesn't appear in the menu and where it appears.

Can anyone recommend me a plug-in or other solution that's powerful yet relatively simple to get up and running, or do any of you happily use one of the 3 I mention above?

[Ozpoker]

Why not just put it in manually?

<ul>
<li>menu 1</li>
<li>menu 2</li>
<li>menu 3
<ul>
<li>submenu 1</li>
<li>submenu 2</li>
<li>submenu 3</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>menu 4</li>
<ul>

[Barry O'Callaghan]

Why not just put it in manually?

<ul>
<li>menu 1</li>
<li>menu 2</li>
<li>menu 3
<ul>
<li>submenu 1</li>
<li>submenu 2</li>
<li>submenu 3</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>menu 4</li>
<ul>

Because I'm not much of a web coder for one thing and to get it to look right - I'd have to do a bit more coding than what you just got there, no!?

If it is as simple as that or not much more difficult then yeah I'd just do that.

[Ozpoker]

Not much more - here's your menu :

<div class="art-nav">
<div class="l"></div>
<div class="r"></div>
<ul class="art-menu">
<li><a class="active" href="http://www.makingapokerwebsite.com"><span class="l"></span><span class="r"></span><span class="t">Home</span></a></li><li class="page_item page-item-2"><a href="http://www.makingapokerwebsite.com/about/"><span class="l"></span><span class="r"></span><span class="t">About</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="page_item page-item-152"><a href="http://www.makingapokerwebsite.com/about/barry-o-callaghan/">About Author</a></li>
<li class="page_item page-item-154"><a href="http://www.makingapokerwebsite.com/about/about-blog/">About Blog</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="page_item page-item-149"><a href="http://www.makingapokerwebsite.com/contact-barry-o-callaghan/"><span class="l"></span><span class="r"></span><span class="t">Contact</span></a></li>
</ul>
</div>


It follows the same format with "class" added for styling - just follow the same format and add the links and tab name you want

[Barry O'Callaghan]

Wow, thanks a lot, you went well beyond what I'd expect. And it worked straight away too. Very much appreciated. I owe you one.

As you say it's nothing extremely complicated. Now don't I feel stupid . I actually do know how to code a bit - but I get sort of fearful at times. Kinda think sometimes that if I fix one thing it'll end up breaking something else.

There's one other thing I'd like to be able to do. The About Page on my site is not of any use. I just want About to be a menu header and not to be a hyperlink. Anyone know off hand the code for this. I'll google it now myself and add the answer(s) if I find them.

[Barry O'Callaghan]

One solution that I'm not entirely happy with is to have either <a href="#"> or <a href="#"> as the link for the About, that way it goes nowhere. But it still is in effect a hyperlink and just doesn't look right. I basically want the About link to be unclickable and just display the sub-menu items.

[Barry O'Callaghan]

If anyone else is interested in this. I've got a solution. I'm using a plugin called menubar WordPress › Menubar WordPress Plugins from Menubar 4.2 and Superfish - dontdream.it. I'm currently using a theme I made with Artisteer, the menubar developer has done a beta for me that works with Artisteer. The thing I really like and I know it's a small thing but sometimes these small things make all the difference is that I'm allowed to add a non-clickable item to a menu. I've done this in the form of the About item. If you wish to look it's on my site www.makingapokerwebsite.com , hope it's of help to someone.