Menubar 3.6 available
August 21st, 2009
Today I’ve released Menubar version 3.6. There are no new features in this version, but I’ve improved the first installation procedure adding more user-friendly messages.
This will be helpful for new users, or when you install the plugin on a new site.
Enjoy!
Categories: WordPress Menubar
Hey Andrea!
First of all thanks for an amazing plugin! I was looking for sth like this for WP for a long time – I’m using it already in couple projects.
I have small feature request/suggestion – I think that it would very useful to make it possible for your plugin to automatically take page titles as names for menu item. More specifically – if someone adds as menu item a static page he could also set it’s name as “same as page title”. The option to have different page title and display name in menu is very often very useful, but most I think that leaving the same name as page title is the most common situation, and currently I have to change the name in two places. Please let me know if this kind of change is possible.
Greets
Hello Chodorowicz,
your suggestion is interesting, I’ll look for a way to implement it in a coming release. Thank you for using Menubar!
Hi Andrea,
I am new to wordpress and am using the Fusion word press template. I am wondering whether your plugin works only with the original WP template.
I have downloaded your plugin and uploaded the basic template but do not have any of the menu options appearing on my dashboard the url is contentandcopy.com.au
Hi Jennifer,
please make sure you created the folder wp-content/plugins/menubar-templates (not wp-content/plugins/menubar/menubar-templates).
That should fix your problem – let me know about your progress!
Thanks for such a great plugin, Andrea! I’ve got everything customized and working well, but I can’t figure out how to add a search box to the menu. Any hints?
Hello Dan,
the search box feature is not available yet, but you can add it manually.
If your search box id is, say, “searchform”:
<form id=”searchform” method=”get” >
<input type=”text” name=”s” />
<input type=”submit” value=”Search” />
</form>
you can place it on your menubar using CSS absolute positioning:
#searchform {
position: absolute;
right: 10px;
top: 100px;
}
Of course you’ll have to adjust the 10px and 100px values according to your design. Please let me know if that works for you!
Thanks for that suggestion, Andrea. I’ve tried to do that on the site I’m working on, but the position of the search form div changes when I view the site on IE6 (it moves up several pixels, and try as I might, I can’t eradicate the problem), which is why I was hoping I might be able to integrate it into your menu system. Any further suggestions would be most welcome, but unexpected too, as this is, I suspect, a general CSS problem (of course all free help should be unexpected anyway).
By the way, I’d like to make a small gesture of thanks for your plug-in. Do you have a PayPal link on your site somewhere that I’ve missed?
Nice plugin,
maybe a feature for adding ‘tags’ to the menu can be interesting.
(now i’m using it with an external url, so it works)
Hi Dan,
thank you for your willingness to support Menubar! This site is now partially supported by Google ads only, but probably in the future I’ll look for other ways to offset the costs.
Regarding the CSS problem you mentioned, try this:
#searchform {
float: right;
position: relative;
right: 10px;
top: 4px;
}
or a variation without the float. You know that with IE6 we need to be very creative!
Hello Freakenstein,
good suggestion, I’ll try to add the Tag item type in a coming release!
Thanks for your suggestion on how to get a search box into Menubar, Andrea. I haven’t got it to work yet, but if I do, I’ll post the solution here.