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How to Add Custom Navigation Menus in WordPress 3.0 Themes

Matt — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:37:17 +0000

Now that WordPress 3.0 is out here is a quick tutorial on how to add custom navigation to your themes.

The new custom navigation feature in WordPress 3.0 has to be my absolute favorite. This gives you the ability to add items like custom links, pages, and categories. The drag and drop interface makes it extremely simple to use. This feature will not be available in older themes unless the theme author updates that theme. In this article, we will show you how you can enable and install custom navigation menus in your themes.

How to enable Custom Navigation Menus in WordPress 3.0

Step 1.
Add the code below to your theme’s functions.php file:

add_theme_support( 'menus' );

Step 2:
Once you have the code placed in your functions file, you can add it in your theme. You can add a menu anywhere you like to fit your designss need by pasting the code below:

 'menu_order', 'container_class' => 'menu-header' ) ); ?>

The function that calls the custom menu is, wp_nav_menu. The arguments in the code above code are sort_column and container_class. The sort_column value tells WordPress to follow the order you pick in the options panel, and the container_class is the css styling class that you want for this specific menu.

Learn more about WordPress 3.0 custom menus:
Function Reference/wp nav menu
Appearance Menus SubPanel

Sprout

Jacob and Matt — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:59:00 +0000

A WordPress theme by the dudes at WP Switch. Sprout is a clean and fresh WordPress theme that brings new growth in ways you never thought possible. Sprout has clean and valid code, is well commented, and easy to use. Sprout is the perfect solution for your website.

This theme includes pages layouts for: Full width pages, multiple columns, blog page, blog single article page, portfolio, contact form and many home page styles.

The live preview will take you to the WordPress version. I have made the WP version home page template to be fully customize from the admin so you can basically mix and match items from the 3 different variations that are in the html template. I have included links to the html on certain items so you can see the different features and sliders.

Everything you see on the homepage is completely optional and controlled in the Sprout theme options. You can also use Sprout as a blog layout and have the homepage display your latest posts.

Check out the features and full demos on ThemeForest.

Inspire

Jacob and Matt — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:47:19 +0000

The Inspire WordPress theme by Woo Themes is a highly functional theme that has a custom homepage with a featured area powered by jQuery, and lovely mini-featured area. This along with the included portfolio page template makes it perfect to use for your business to show off your work or products.

Unique Features

Featured Area

A custom home page featured area to showcase your work or products with style, all powered by jQuery.

Custom Homepage

Custom home page layout with Mini-features area, and option to insert any page above/below mini-features area.

Portfolio Page Template

An optional integrated portfolio section to show off your work, which utilizies jQuery prettyPhoto script for added effect.

Custom Widgets

Custom Woo Widgets for use in the sidebar and in the widgetized footer: Flickr, Ads Widget, Search, News, Tabs, Feedback, Blog Author Info and Twitter.

Alternative Styles

10 alternate background to choose from plus options to set your own background color, add background image and set link color. Also includes new Google Font replacement using Droid font!

How to Change Author Attribution for a WordPress Post

Matt — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:16:40 +0000

If you’d like to change which of the authors on your blog is given attribution for a specific post, this video will show you how.

Video length: 30 seconds

Overview:

If you have more than one one author working on your blog you might find from time to time that you need to change the attribution or author of a post.

You can do that with the dropdown menu under the postauthor pane. Selecting the name of whoever you would like to credit for the post. When the post goes live, that is the author who will be credited.

Hyperion WordPress Theme

Jacob and Matt — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:59:40 +0000

Hyperion is a clean and stylish WordPress Theme well suited for any business, portfolio, blogger, or anyone needing a beautiful website.

Hyperion comes with 3 jquery slideshows, many page templates, 3 widget areas, over 80 theme options, 6 color styles, and 2 custom widgets for your Twitter feed and Flickr images.

There is also 2 variations of the home page. One meant for business and the other is a regular (but awesome) blog style.

Business Home Page Style

This style uses the custom “My Home” template page and is well suited for anyone needing a portfolio or business site.

Blog Style Home Page

This works straight out of the box and is ready for your blog.