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WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook

By : Nick Ohrn, Lee Jordan
Book Image

WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook

By: Nick Ohrn, Lee Jordan

Overview of this book

Themes are among the most powerful features that can be used to customize a web site and give it a professional look, especially in WordPress. Using custom themes you can brand your site for a particular corporate image, ensure standards compliance, and create easily navigable layouts. But most WordPress users still continue to use default themes as developing and deploying themes that are flexible and easily maintainable is not always straightforward and lot of issues pop up during the process.This easy-to-use step-by-step guide will help you create powerful themes for your WordPress web site, and solve your theme development problems in a quick and effective way. It enables you to take full control over your site's design and branding and make it look smarter.WordPress is distributed with two ready-to-use themes. You can use these themes to give a common look to your website, or use the techniques described in this book to create custom themes. This book includes over 100 useful recipes to help you get started and create advanced themes. It starts with the basics of WordPress themes and creating a theme from scratch. Then, it covers how to enhance your template and add effects to get a rich look. You will learn how to manage pages, categories, and tags for your blogs, and how to make your posts look unique. You will also learn about the comment system and sidebars that will help you give a new feel to your blog and web site.This book will help you through the most common problems encountered when developing a WordPress theme. You will get tips to enhance your design skill and eventually enhance your blog's design.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Creating drop-downs using child pages


Complex sites can be created with WordPress by using only the system of pages and subpages. In order to allow the user to easily drill down through a topic, it can be beneficial to create drop-downs from the parent-child page relationship.

Getting started

For this recipe to be useful, you must first create a series of pages and subpages that you'll be using for your site's content. An example of a desirable hierarchical content organization that would be useful to structure in this way would be a top-level "Teams" page with subpages for each team in the league that you're writing about.

How to do it...

Follow the steps for the recipe Creating a category drop-down menu until you get to the point where you use the function wp_list_categories. Then insert the following code:

<ul class="nav superfish">
<?php wp_list_pages(array('title_li'=>'')); ?>
</ul>

Depending on your theme's styles, you should see something similar to the following...