WordPress Menu Manager Guide

Posted on December 17, 2008
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Quick Guide to the Menu Manager

In response to some frustrations by end users regarding the configuration of the Menu Manager, I quickly knocked out a short guide to assist them with the use of the WP Menu Creator plugin. This short guide is not the final draft so I’ll have to revisit it and edit it based on feedback I receive.

It is important to note that the next release of the WP Menu Creator will have features that allow users to add the link TARGET and also the link TITLE for better control over how links in your menu is handled. I’ll also be adding in a feature that would allow you to create a menu item that would open a sized popup window in response to feature requests we received in the forums. This feature would allow a WordPress blog site owner to add not only the standard link types but also provide a popup window link for situations were such things are needed.

The demo menu in the guide is a pretty standard suckerfish style menu which you are free to emulate or copy. Simply save the page to your computer and examine the code to get an idea how the WP Menu Creator works. I’ve been up to my neck with tons of RETS and IDX work so I have not had time to get the instructional videos together yet. To visit the short guide please visit this link http://www.jaredritchey.com/tutorials/menucreator/ Also for anyone willing to link to the project on WordPress or to this site, I’ll setup and configure your Menu Manager FREE of charge. Just write a post about its use and or its features and point a link here or to WordPress http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-menu-creator/ and I’ll setup the menu for you.

A quick side note for those following this project. We have a variant of the WP Menu Creator ready for OpenRealty but will likely not release until the features I mention above are included. As it stands, I’ll have version 1.0.4 ready by the end of December and at that time I’ll publish both, the update for WP and the new addon for OpenRealty. The reason behind this is that with OpenRealty’s use in the very competitive Real Estate market, It really does require me to be sure we have options in place for OpenRealty users to manage their links with the best possible options. Link Target and certainly Title are important in SEO efforts. Naturally this Addon will also be free and Open Source.

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