Drop down menu yet?
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Hi all,
just wondering if there are drop down menu widgets yet? I wish to save some real estate on the home page and have some easy to edit, drop and drag menu widgets. You know, make the pages and then just drag them into drop down menus from the header bar or even the side bar if you wish.Any luck?
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Don’t look for drag and drop on the main page of the blog. That will likely never happen. It is complex to do things like that and have them work in all browsers.
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Thanks for that.
Is there a workaround?
EG: header links act as “Chapter” links. Click on header links takes you to different pages with different side-bars? It’s not a drop down, but almost acts the same way.How do people normally cope with say 60 Pages that are filed under about 6 different “Chapters”?
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There isn’t anyway to have different widgets on different pages. In some themes, you can put hyperlinks in the page tabs, but your theme does not have top navigation.
You could create an index page with the “chapter” links on it and then have the links to the individual pages listed under the chapters.
The problem is that blogs are not designed to work as static sites (pages instead of posts).
My suggestion is keep pages for things such as “about” or whatever and then all the main information on your blog is put into posts and then those are assigned to categories (such as chapter 1, chapter 2, etc., and then when someone clicks on the “chapter 1” category, that takes them to that category page which lists all the posts filed under that category.
Using pages for content has drawbacks.
1. Search engines do not pay anywhere near as much attention to pages as they do to posts. Putting everything on pages results in lower search engine ranking which results in lower readership.
2. When you publish posts, wordpress automatically “pings” all the major search engines to let them know you have published a new post so that they can index it. WordPress does NOT ping search engines when you publish pages.
3. Using appropriate tags and categories allow you to help search engines determine what your posts are about and where to place them in searches. Pages cannot be tagged or categorized.
4. Posts will show up on the wordpress.COM global tags pages, and typically results in increased traffic to your site. Also since the wordpress global tags pages have high search engine page rank, you end up benefiting from that. Pages do NOT show up on the wordpress global tags pages.
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Thank you for that very detailed reply, you’re a gem! You may have just saved me days and days of work. Thanks!
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