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The WordPress Menubar Plugin has been updated! If you are looking for a customizable menu for your WordPress site, I suggest you take a look at WP Menubar release 1.1 (Download).

The new features of version 1.1 are:

* internationalization – now if you wish you can localize the plugin in your language (I’ll be happy to include your localization file in the plugin distribution if you so desire);

* a new menu element, LineBreak, to break the current line in the menubar and start a new one – useful to split long menus;

* a new Reset Menubar command, to delete the current menubar and build a new empty one.

As usual if you have suggestions for improvements, if you need clarifications, or if something is not working for you as expected, you can drop me a comment and I’ll try to answer as soon as possible. Happy menubar, with WordPress Menubar 1.1!

In an older post (WordPress navigation bar howto) I tried to explain how to build a simple horizontal menu in WordPress. While that little tutorial is reasonably easy to follow, it requires modifications to the theme you are using, and this way the menu becomes part of the theme. If you switch themes, you have to start all over again and rebuild your menus.

So I started writing this plugin. Since a plugin can be activated independently of themes, using a plugin you can change themes without losing your work on the menus. And now, after many trials and errors, the WordPress Menubar Plugin is ready. It builds one or more menus for you and has additional features like dynamic highlighting (the currently selected menu entry is highlighted).

I hope you like this plugin (Download). If you have suggestions for improvements, if you need some help, or if something is not working for you as expected, you can drop me a comment (please be patient if I can’t answer immediately).

Happy menus, with the WordPress Menubar Plugin!