WordPress 3 includes the option to create custom menus via the WordPress Menu Manager found on the Dashboard under “Appearance” >> “Menus”.
No matter what theme you use, as long as the theme is widget ready (most are theses days) you can create custom menus linking to literally anything with any anchor text from a menu widget on the sidebar. Menu widgets give you far more control over what your sidebars link to.
With the Stallion WordPress Theme you also have the option to create a custom menu that replaces the top navigation menu (below the header). I’ve built one above, hover over the navigation menu to see what I’ve linked to, every link was added via the built in WordPress Menu Manager (no custom coding).
Create a new Custom Menu, add links from Posts, Pages, Categories etc… you can also add links (via “Custom Links”) to any site or page (they don’t have to be on the site you are working on) order them how you want them, child links will be shown as a drop down of the link they are a child of.
Save the new custom menu and on the Custom Menus page select the new custom menu for the “Themes Locations” : “Primary Navigation” menu.
Check your home page and the new custom navigation menu will be active.
To use this Stallion theme feature leave the setting “Stallion Theme” >> “Layout Options” : “Navigation Menu” : “New Style Navigation Menu” at the default setting. If you select “Old Style Navigation Menu” or “No Navigation Menu” this feature doesn’t work.
You can also build more menus this way and use them via the widgets menu “Appearance” >> “Widgets”. When you create a new menu it will be available as a widget, drag and drop it on a widget area like one of the footer widget areas.
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16 responses to WordPress Menu Manager Stallion Theme Feature
WordPress Tab DropDown Menu on Top for All Categories
Hello David!
Thank you for this WordPress Menu help page! I have been trying to get my category menu on my WordPress site to show on the top portion of the theme where the tabs are for years. After playing with the new Stallion Theme for a few weeks I still didn’t get how freaking simple it was to create a category menu with tabs to show on top of the page until just now. I just had to thank you for making my dream menu come true!!!! This is a huge benefit of this theme.
If I can help out someone else save a few minutes, it would be just to mention that the Custom Menu Page or Menu Page is found on the Admin right side bar under “Appearance” > “Menu”
When creating a custom menu, drag the menu item a short distance to the left and drop it to create a child menu item to the one above it. (the Parent)
So Once again …Thank you!!!! I finally will be able to create the site I dreamed of. For me, this custom menu option is the most important feature that WordPress Themes have- next a perfect Adsense system for WP templates!
WordPress Menu Manager Stallion Theme Feature
oops, I said to drag the menu item to the left to create a child menu, I meant to say “to the right” the exhaustive menu details and how to’s can be found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_SubPanel
Stallion SEO Theme RSS Feeds
I just recently upgraded one of my websites from the Talion theme to the Stallion theme. In doing so I tried to change my rss feeds from the left sidebar to the right sidebar. I’m apparently doing something wrong as I cannot get the feed to work at all. I still have a “feeds” folder located on my public_html/publicbeware.com/feeds area and it’s still full of the old feeds from the Talion theme. When I’m adding the feeds url I’m using , is this correct or do I need to include something else?
Thanks,
Randy
WordPress Menu Manager Stallion Theme Feature
Stallion SEO Theme RSS Feeds
David,
I’ve answered my own question because I was using the wrong rss widget. I forgot that with the Talion theme I used the 5GAT RSS Feeds widget and not the one where I would enter a url for the feed.
Sorry for my confusion.
Thanks,
Randy
Slideshow not working - my fault
I am sure this is my fault, as I have been messing about so much modifying your theme on my site, but the slide show stopped working.
I reinstalled Stallion and delete the images and tried to do everything from stratch, but it does not seem to work. It does not show the multiple images I created and uploaded. I make sure the cache is 777, but still no joy.
I am tempted to zero out the database, but if you have any ideas let me know.
WordPress Menu Manager Stallion Theme Feature
Stallion Featured Thumbnail
Check if the Stallion Featured Thumbnail for this post exists http://indianmobiledating.com/indian-girls-seeking-guys/ it’s currently linking to which doesn’t exist.
David
Thanks for checking. I wish it was that simple, I deleted that jpg you refer to to start anew. For example, I uploaded the above image again and it does not show on the slideshow but as a thunbnail, and the box to use it in the slideshow is checked.
If it is too much trouble, I do not mind nuking the site and starting again, but maybe it is something I do not see.
Also I did note, that one another site, wp-polls might conflict with the slideshow. Not a bit deal not using it anyway, was just a plugin that was installed but never used.
WordPress Menu Manager Stallion Theme Feature
Stallion Featured Posts Slider
Looking at the code output from view source the output is as I’d expect, compared it to a development site with the same Colour scheme, layout and slider settings and the code is correct.
The code is there, but the sliding isn’t working as it should, the sliding is javascript based. I would look at javascript files loaded by other plugins, I see a couple loaded in the footer area one for the stats and the other related to Jetpack. Try disabling plugins that load javascript files see if it fixes the issue.
Could be a simple case of conflicting javascript, one of the plugins use jQuery javascript code like the slider does.
If it is a plugin let me know which and I’ll see if I can find a work around.
David
WordPress Menu Manager Stallion Theme Feature
Jetpack WordPress Plugin Jquery Conflict
Tested Jetpack and it is conflicting with the Stallion Featured Posts Slider javascript.
Think Jetpack is enqueing Jquery since I’m finding
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.talian-theme.co.uk/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.7.1'></script>Within the footer area of the test site, jquery-1.7.1.min.js is loaded by the slider and I’m assuming this is causing a conflict with jquery.js loaded within the footer.
A plugin would normally enqueue Jquery with code like this:
wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' );This is within Jetpack, but disabling it didn’t remove the script code, so guess it’s enqueued some other way.
Never played around with Jquery beyond copying it into the slider code, so don’t know if there’s a solution. Jquery.min is loaded in the head of the code, jquery.js is loaded in the footer. When I was creating the slider I tried to add it to the footer, but it didn’t work.
Two possible solutions.
1. Load jquery.js in the head instead of Jquery min via the slider code and hope it works for the slider and Jetpack. You’d have to disable the Jetpack Jquery as well most likely.
2. Disable Jetpacks jquery.js code and see what happens, jquery.min.js might be enough.
David
Edit: Adding
wp_deregister_script( 'jquery' );Which de registers the the Jquery script.
To the bottom of jetpack.php fixes the slider issue, no idea if it breaks anything Jetpack wise.
WordPress Menu Manager Stallion Theme Feature
WordPress Fatal Error Message at Theme Setup
Hi there
I have just uploaded the new version and activated it on my chosen wp site.
After entering my Tran code I went to view the front page and saw the following error message
Dont know what it means or how to fix it;
Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_post_format() in /home/acoach5u/public_html/selfimprovementmastery/wp-content/themes/stallion-seo-theme/index.php on line 30
Can you assist?
Thank You
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Stallion SEO Theme Works with WordPress 3.2 Plus
The above error is due to running an old version of WordPress, get_post_format() was added in WordPress 3.1 and Stallion uses the latest WordPress code. So your site must be running WordPress 3.0.* or earlier.
If you update to the latest version of WordPress the error will be gone.
I develop Stallion so it works in the latest two major versions of WordPress. Currently WordPress is at version 3.3.* so I’m checking Stallion works in WordPress 3.2.* and WordPress 3.3.* (it also works in WordPress 3.1.*, but if something broke in WordPress 3.1.* I wouldn’t fix it unless it was a simple fix).
When WordPress updates to WordPress 3.4 I’ll check WordPress 3.3 and WordPress 3.4 when working on updates. I’ve checked Stallion 7.1 with WordPress 3.4 beta releases and early release candidates and already updated some code in the current Stallion version.
David
WordPress Menu Manager Stallion Theme Feature
Want to create page with index for my posts.
Hi David,
I want to create a page with indexing.
I used short code for [Archive] in my new page visual editor, but it is not working.
So please let me know the probable solution for this.
Thanks!
Stallion Theme Sitemap Page Templates
Don’t understand your question? There are no built in short codes with Stallion, if you had them in a previous theme/plugin they won’t be available in Stallion directly.
If it’s a sitemap there’s built in sitemap Page templates.
Under Dashboard: Page >> Add New
On the right you can select various Page templates including sitemaps.
David
want to create page which contains list of all Titles of the posts.
Hi David,
1) Want to create page called “XYZ Index”
2) This page contains only list of all Titles of my posts with each title hyper linking to its blog post
3)when I click on these hyperlink, need to travel to post page.
4) these lists of posts either can be taken from archive or category field.
5) My page should look just look like below:
> post 1
> post 2
> post 3
> post 4
WordPress Menu Manager Stallion Theme Feature
Stallion Sitemaps
Closest to what you want are the Stallion Sitemap Page Templates.
There’s several that give different output, this one for example
http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/google-adsense-sitemap
Has the latest comments linked at the top and the posts at the bottom.
There’s a template that only shows the posts.
http://www.stallion-theme.com/sitemap
David
Thanks David, issue got resolved.
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