WordPress Dropdown Menu Plugin Version 2.1 Beta

Posted on Feb 20th 2008 by Ryan.

We’re back into Beta mode with the plugin. I’ve added support for Superfish style animated dropdowns. You can control the speed, mouseover time delay and mouseout time delays of the dropdown via the WordPress options page.

Demo

The new demo is very pretty, I hope you like it … live demonstration.

Download

WordPress Dropdown Menu Plugin Version 2.1 Beta Download

Bugs

If you find any bugs or would like additional functionality, please leave a comment below and I’ll try to correct them before releasing it into the official WordPress plugins repository.

Credit

Thanks to Joel Birch for developing the original Superfish dropdown script which is used to control the new functionality in this plugin, BigAlReturns for help with the pages/categories exclusion feature and Mark Gooding for developing a new version of the plugin with features which were later added to this plugin.

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129 Responses to “WordPress Dropdown Menu Plugin Version 2.1 Beta”

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  1. Ryan on: March 7th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    Version 1.5 now uploaded.

    The plugin now features a keyboard accessibility option. This allows your users to navigate your dropdown menu without the mouse. This does add an extra ~3 kB to the page download, so I haven’t included this by default.

  2. Ryan on: March 7th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

    Version 1.4 Beta is now uploaded.

    With this version you can now alter the content of your dropdowns via the admin panel.

  3. Ryan on: March 7th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    Bruce - can you send me a link to the problem you are having with flash players? I’d only noticed this on others sites. But when I tried it on my test blog with a YouTube video, I didn’t have this problem at all.

  4. Ryan on: March 7th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    Yeah, I’m going to need to fix that problem with flash players displaying over the top of the dropdowns. I’m not sure how though.

  5. Bruce on: March 7th, 2008 at 10:48 am

    Ryan, Great plug-in. Worked first time, and it’s now even easier to config.

    The only problem I’ve found is that when you use it with dynamic content (e.g., flash players) near the menus, the drop-downs drop down behind the other content.

    So (unfortunately) I can’t use it on my site, but great job anyway. Bruce.

  6. Ryan on: March 7th, 2008 at 1:42 am

    I’ve done a total redesign of the plugin.

    Version 1.3 of the beta should run faster and use less system resources than the previous one.

    To edit the look of the dropdown, you will now need to visit my new Suckerfish Dropdowns CSS Generator page. Grab the CSS code from there and enter it into your WordPress admin panel.

    The CSS is currently outputted to the page with <style> tags, but I’ll be fixing that shortly so that it is generated via a dynamic style sheet.

  7. Ryan on: March 5th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    Excellent :) Glad to hear it worked.

  8. Mel on: March 5th, 2008 at 9:16 am

    Voila! It worked! Thanks, Ryan. :)

  9. Ryan on: March 4th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

    Mel -

    #suckerfishnav li:hover ul ul, #suckerfishnav li:hover ul ul ul, #suckerfishnav li.sfhover ul ul, #suckerfishnav li.sfhover ul ul ul {
    left:auto;
    background-color:#3A4825;
    }

    Needs to become

    #suckerfishnav li:hover ul ul, #suckerfishnav li:hover ul ul ul, #suckerfishnav li.sfhover ul ul, #suckerfishnav li.sfhover ul ul ul {
    left:-999em;
    background-color:#3A4825;
    }

  10. Mel on: March 4th, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    I tried both options and neither one made a difference. (I was supposed to edit the Header file, right? Where I put ?)

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