WP Menubar 3.0
WP Menubar is the WordPress plugin that lets you add one or more configurable menus to your WordPress site. You can create both flat and hierarchical menus, and you can style them with customizable menu templates.
After one year and seven beta versions, WP Menubar 3.0 is finally available. Your help in finding bugs and your suggestions for improvement have been and are invaluable, so I wish to thank you all for your contributions.
Version 3.0 is almost identical to 3.0 beta 7, I’ve just fixed a few (last?) bugs and added the menu templates formerly available in version 2.3. Regretfully it’s not possible to import in Menubar 3.0 menus built with Menubar 2.3, you’ll have to reenter them from scratch. If you are already using a 3.0 beta version instead, you shouldn’t have any problem upgrading.
I think Menubar 3.0 is user friendly enough and doesn’t require you to study the documentation, which is available anyway in WP Menubar documentation. You are more than welcome to give this version a try (Download) and I look forward to hearing your suggestions.
Happy menus, with WP Menubar 3.0!
Great plugin, the best available so far. While using it I have come across two possible feature suggestions. First button icons. It would be great to have a checkbox to enable “use icon”, and text boxes for the icon image file location, padding left/right and alignment (left or right of the link text). While this can be partially done thru css styling, currently if you hover over the button, the icon disappears (when the hover style takes over). My second feature suggestion would be to enable a new “type” of link where we can input custom code (php/javascript) to be called. This would help with triggering scripts or lightboxes. Thanks for your great work, hugely appreciate the work you have put into this awesome plugin.
Hello rd,
thank you for your kind words and for your suggestions, I’ll look into them for the next Menubar release!
How about adding custom button for menu?
Hello Litespeed,
could you please point me to an example of the menu you are interested in? A picture is worth a thousand words
Hello,
True, it’s one of the best plugin ! Nice job !
When using the Suckerfish horizontal menu bar in WP Menubar, I’m interrested in to see arrows as Sub Menu Indicator, like the Atahualpa does in the “Page Menu bar” or “Category Menu Bar”.
Will that be possible ? or a trick to make it already work ?
Regards
Hello Hervé,
thank you for the good suggestion, I will put that feature in one of the next Menubar versions!
Complimenti, grande plugin
La possibilità di usare l’editor di CSS dal sito che indichi è davvero utile, ma ho notato che poi quei template non vanno con il suckerfish. Come si potrebbe rimediare? Facendo a mano?
Per quanto riguarda la richiesta che ha già fatto qualcuno, la possibilità di avere una semplice immagine come pulsante (invece che un box di colore unico), sarebbe davvero utile. In realtà basterebbe smanettare coi css e sarebbe già possibile farlo, salvando il pulsante/immagine a mano sul server e poi linkarlo dai css, ma capisco che molti non saprebbero da dove cominciare.
Ora esagero.. ma la possibilità di avere un editor per creare template direttamente dal pann. di contr. del plugin, scegliendo se averlo in modalità suckerfish o no…sarebbe.. wow
Ciao Dukessa,
ho registrato tutti i tuoi suggerimenti, sono davvero interessanti e sicuramente ne realizzerò qualcuno nelle prossime versioni.
Per la tua prima domanda, CSSMenuBuilder ha in programma di realizzare anche menu dropdown, spero che non tardi troppo, e in questo caso potrei estendere io il template CSSmb.
Come spesso succede, tante cose da fare e così poco tempo! Comunque grazie dei tuoi suggerimenti e del tuo interesse per Menubar!
Hi Andrea!
Version 3.0 works beautifully! Thank you.
I have just one question: the hover/rollover effects are sometimes very tricky for the user to navigate. Could you look at my work-in-progress site: http://nanmelville.com/nm
Nan complains that she cannot easily select submenus. Is there a setting/tweak that would improve this?
Molto grazie from Munich!
Peter
Hello Peter,
that’s a known usability problem with Suckerfish-like menus. If users move their mouse away from the menu, perhaps for a quick or imprecise mouse movement, the sublevels instantly close and users have to start over from the first menu level.
The usual remedy is to limit the menu depth to one sublevel only, or to modify Suckerfish with a Javascript code adding a delay before closing sublevels. I have been trying to add this feature, but I’ve not been able to make it work yet. I’ll keep you informed!
Thanks Andrea!
Another question… been using the suckerfish-grey, and it works beautifully in FireFox, however with IE6, the dropdown menus (secondary levels) all display behind the sidebars & content. Any suggestions for the CSS. I have increased the z-index to 100, with no change/effect!
Thanks
peter
Hello Peter,
that looks like another IE bug. Please try putting a z-index of 100 in your
.sf-blue ul
rule, *and* a z-index of 200 in the preceding
.sf-blue
rule. If that works, I’ll put the fix into the next template version.