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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Creating a drop-down menu for your categories


Do you use a lot of categories along with their sub-categories? If so, using a drop-down menu is a nice way to categorize content, especially on larger sites. However, giving a quick access to the categories or sub-categories to readers can become a pain.

Over the years, the drop-down menu has become very popular on the Internet. In this recipe, I'm going to show you how to create your own drop-down menu for your WordPress blog categories.

Getting ready

The menu you are going to create will first list your pages, and then at last a tab called Categories will obviously list your categories.

This menu is achieved only with XHTML and CSS. No JavaScript is needed (unless you want to maintain compatibility with it commonly referred to as IE6) to ensure the best SEO possible for your WordPress blog.

How to do it...

In order to make this recipe more readable, I have divided it in 3 steps—the PHP and the HTML, the CSS, and the JavaScript for IE6 compatibility...