Just a quick note to let you know that WP Menubar 3.0 beta is ready. If you wish to test this beta, please go to the Download page and get your copy. Then you can report any bugs you find by writing a comment to this post.
The main new feature of version 3.0 is the ability to build hierarchical menus; there are also a few usability improvements in the admin interface, I’ll let you see by yourselves. Some last-minute features might be added in version 3.0 final.
I hope that 3.0 final will be ready soon after the release of WordPress 2.5. Enjoy!
Update February 27: version beta 2 is available, to fix a problem with dropdowns in Internet Explorer.
Update March 1: version beta 3 is available, to fix the previous fix – sorry!
Update March 2: WP Menubar documentation is ready!
Update March 30: version beta 4 is available. Changes are:
– it now works with WordPress 2.5!
– PageTrees (or CategoryTrees) may now contain all your Pages (or Categories);
– Menubar 3.0 no longer accepts menu templates intended for Menubar 2.x (and viceversa), since they are incompatible.
Update April 27: version beta 5 is available, with a fix to make it work with more than one menu. Thanks to all of you who keep reporting bugs!
Update June 24: version beta 6 is available. This version corrects a few CSS problems, and introduces the Heading, a non clickable item type used for instance as the parent of a set of children items.
![[Suckerfish menu template]](/images/menuSuckerfish.jpg "Suckerfish menu template")
If you are using WordPress Menubar you can easily build dropdown menus, using the Suckerfish menu template.
The Suckerfish template (Download) is named after the two popular articles teaching how to build lightweight, accessible, standards compliant, cross browser compatible dropdown menus:
The Suckerfish template uses a single image for the shadow under the horizontal bar, and a few lines of JavaScript code enable it to work with IE. If JavaScript is disabled, the dropdown effect doesn’t work in IE, but keeps working in the other tested browsers (Firefox and Opera).
As usual it’s possible to customize the menu presentation editing the template style sheet, changing size, colors, fonts, borders, margins so that your menu blends perfectly with your site’s design.
Happy customization!
This is another upgrade for WP Menubar, the plugin that brings to your WordPress site one or more horizontal (or vertical) menus, fully configurable and with the dynamic highlighting capability. You can find the latest release in the Download page.
This upgrade has been requested by a few readers, who were having problems with their menu when setting a static page as their site front page (this option is in WordPress Options – Reading). This upgrade introduces the new “FrontPage” menu type in WP Menubar, that correctly handles the static front page setting.
While the “Home” menu type points to the traditional main page of a WordPress blog, containing the latest posts list, the “FrontPage” menu type points to the front page as defined in Options – Reading. When the front page is not defined in Options – Reading, the “FrontPage” menu type points to the traditional blog main page.
Enjoy your WordPress Menubar menus!
This is a small update for WP Menubar, a plugin that lets you add to your WordPress site a fully configurable horizontal (or vertical) menu, with dynamic highlighting (that is, the currently selected menu entry is highlighted). You can find the latest release in the Download page.
There are two new features:
1) all menu entries use your permalink structure;
2) the menu entry for a Page stays highlighted when its children Pages are visited.
The permalink feature has been requested by many readers (and Karsten sent me an implementation, thank you Karsten!). Also the Page Tree feature has been requested by readers, so I hope you’ll find this update useful. By the way, I have also tested WP Menubar 2.1 with the latest WordPress 2.3 release.
As usual, happy menus with your WordPress Menubar Plugin!
Just in time for the end of July, WordPress Menubar Reloaded (alias WordPress Menubar 2.0) is ready. This new release is available for download in the Download page.
There are basically two relevant new features:
* capability to build unlimited configurable menus, instead of just one; each menu can be recalled in your theme by its name, with a line like this:
<?php do_action('wp_menubar','menu-name'); ?>
* presentation of each menu is driven by a menu template (a PHP script with a CSS stylesheet) selectable from the administration panel. There are a few simple templates already included, and I plan to release more advanced templates in the near future. You can also customize or even rewrite your templates from scratch.
As usual if you have questions, suggestions for improvement, or if something is not working for you as expected, you can post a comment and I’ll try to answer as soon as possible.
Happy menus, with WordPress Menubar Reloaded!
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