Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme – Part 3.1 “Navigation – Second Level Menu”
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Magazine style themes overcome this limitation (or at least they should if they are charging you money) by using one or more of the following:
- Second level navigation
- Conditional menus
- Intelligent dropdown/slidedown menus
A good example of a magazine style themes using second level navigation to include category pages is WP Magazine and both archives and categories as dropdowns is Solostream 3. Both the themes are designed by Solostream.
An example of a magazine style theme using conditional menus is my own semi-magazine style theme Black+White, see the demo and click on either [Support] or [Archive] and a Submenu will show up in the navigation bar to the right.
The third and the most sort after navigation style is the intelligent dropdown or more appropriately “slidedown” menu using CSS and JavaScript (for IE). Examples include News by Bence Kucsan and the very popular Revolution by Brian Gardner.
There is no one method that is better than the other, it’s a matter of personal preference and site specific needs.
How do we add these Functions to our Existing Designs?
Since our tutorials are running longer than expected, we will focus on just the “second level” menu in this section.
November 6th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
[...] will use the same demo theme we created during the previous tutorial. As you can see it has conditional page tags built in, just like many of our other new [...]
September 16th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
brilliant. So simple and easy, and explained well. So, I expect the conditional explanation involves how to target related pages? Looking forward to more.
September 1st, 2008 at 7:17 pm
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