[q88]

q88

#111

Hi,

I’m new to wordpress and to javascript. I totaly love Graphene and it’s perfect for a webpage under development. But I need dropdown menus. How do I enable it? And where do I control it?

[Syahir Hakim]

Syahir Hakim

#11261

Dropdown menu is already enabled by default. If you don’t set a Custom Menu using the WordPress’ Custom Menu function, the menu will display the pages as the menu items and their children will be the dropdown menu items.

[q88]

q88

#11262

Wonderful!

[kanjipad]

kanjipad

#11263

Just to clarify, is this right? The only way to get drop-down menus is to avoid setting any location in the dashboard section that reads:

“Your theme supports 2 menus. Select which menu appears in each location.

Header Menu

Secondary Menu”

When I have tried various combinations of single and double menus, I seem to lose the dropdown facility. In fact, I did not know dropdowns were possible because I just assumed I had to specify a location as told – I discovered them by accident when I installed a child theme.

Basically, the dashboard is giving bad advice in its instructions to specify a location. I guess this is a problem with the dashboard itself and can’t be fixed at the theme level? Might be worth adding a warning to the theme’s documentation.

Cheers,

Craig.

[kanjipad]

kanjipad

#11264

Sorry, one more related question… Are dropdown sub-items only possible for sub-pages within the main site? Is it possible to have them point at custom links outside WordPress?

[Syahir Hakim]

Syahir Hakim

#11265

Please see this page: http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-of-menu-items-and-creating-sub-menus

[kanjipad]

kanjipad

#11266

Thanks for the awsomely fast response! (I probably should have looked a little harder before asking, I know).