When it comes to creating a site that has multi-level navigation, a drop down menu is often your best means of keeping the navigation simple and uncluttered. There are a few plugins that you can use to achieve this, but I’ve found that many of them make too many assumptions and don’t work exactly how I’d like them too. For that reason, I’ll detail a simple means of making your own WordPress drop down menu.
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Make your own WordPress drop down menu
Using custom fields to create archive thumbnails
When I launched this site, I was instantly jumped on by Ruark asking me how I achieved the thumbnails on the home & archive pages of this site. This can be done in a number of simple ways and with a bit of imagination, you can take it to a much greater level. So use this article to understand the basics and then you can decide how best to implement these methods.
Simpler code & styling with conditional tags
WordPress provides an awesome way of minimizing the extra coding you might have to do on each template that you create. You’ll more than likely have a slightly different way of styling your page.php, single.php and archive.php. Thus on each of those templates you’d have to add a different class or id in order to edit the styling in your CSS. Here’s how you can make this a much simpler process…
