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Sticky Menu, a plugin for WordPress

July 6th, 2007 ericdes

I wrote this little plugin to easily create menus in WordPress.

Normal use of WordPress to create menus:

Because WordPress normally creates menus automatically, for example from a list of categories or pages, you have to exclude manually all items you don’t want in your menu, which can be a lengthy process if you have a lot of categories or pages.

Also, you can’t mix categories and pages in a same menu. You can’t put a link to a subdomain, which could be the case if you have a forum running outside WordPress for example.

What Sticky Menu improves:

Sticky Menu lets you define an unlimited number of menus, in which

you list the exact number of menu items you want to appear. Menu items can link to any pages, posts, etc., in your site or any URLs exterior to your site. You can define a class name for each menu item.

With Sticky Menu being activated, you go to the admin board and look for Sticky Menu in the ‘Manage’ section. There, you create as many menus and menu items as you’d like. In this example, I created a menu named ‘Main’ with 4 menu items: Home, Fun, About me, Contact me.

Then I edited the template files header.php, footer.php, sidebar.php to add these lines:

$menu = new stickymenu;
$menu->display_menu('menu=Main'); # Will display menu 'Main' here

(Please note that the names are case-sensitive, e.g. ‘Main’ is different than ‘main’.)

5/21/2008: Sticky Menu 1.41 - Fixed type bug related to ‘class’ field.

Download links to the Sticky Menu plugin:

Sticky Menu 1.41 (tar.gz)

Sticky Menu 1.41 (.zip)

Sticky Menu Download Area (History)

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120. Don | March 13th, 2007 at 1:04 am

Any chance this works with the fold pages plugin? Menus and submenus?
119. marie | March 7th, 2007 at 3:49 pm

Here we go again… i have made it after reading carrefully things. So it’s possible to understand after 3hours ! i have created a menu called top, and it works. i was always putting my menu name’s under ” main”.

Thanks for evrything!
118. marie | March 7th, 2007 at 11:43 am

I’ve got the same :
```
<div id="globalnav">
<ul id="menu">
<?php sticky_menu('top'); ?>
</ul>
</div>
```
which means that’s good ? (or not). How can i make this damned menu appear ??! I’ m going to also install the others plugins. Thanks for your attention Tela and your time. I feel less alone
117. tela | March 7th, 2007 at 4:43 am

Hello Marie,

Looks like you’re almost there!

Now you have to make sure that the name of your menu under Sticky Menu admin matches the one in header.php where the menu is called.

In your theme folder open header.php. At the bottom of this file, you find these lines:
```
<ul id="menu">
<?php sticky_menu('top'); ?>
</ul>
```
‘top’ is the name of the menu.

Also as you’re using a templateXtreme theme, you need to install also the plugin: ALEW. Or you might encounter more problems.

You’ll find all the installation instructions in the readme file in the theme folder.
116. marie | March 6th, 2007 at 10:59 pm

well, it doesn; t work anymore but this time i……maybe someone can help ??? and sorry for polluating !
here the page :http://winkel.omnigolf.nl/index.php
It SHOULD be undert the flash bar the MENU BAR (icons with a golf ball). Well, it never appears. I can create the menu with sticky and then nothing happen VISUALLY on the page.

Any idea ? pleaaaaaase.
Or m’i the worth dummy ?
115. marie | March 6th, 2007 at 9:30 pm

Alleluia it works !! i have read SERIOUSLY the comments and got the tip for dummy from lisa:

Click “phpMyAdmin” link
Click “databases” link
Click SQL tab
Should open up a box “Run SQL query/queries on server localhost: Documentation”
Paste the code below into the box:
yes ! now i’m goimg to experiment further…
114. marie | March 6th, 2007 at 8:59 pm

hum, me again… i had forgoten to activate the plugin DAaaa!
but now the database error is still here. :-(((((
113. marie | March 6th, 2007 at 8:55 pm

Thank you very much for your help tela, but unfurtunatly i can’t find sticky menu in the dashboard. I’ve got manage files, pages etc… but nothing with sticky menu ! i’m stupid or this is a problem with thr french version ?
112. tela | March 6th, 2007 at 4:06 pm

Once you have activated the plugin, you find the Sticky Menu admin, under Manage > Sticky Menu in the dashboard.
111. marie | March 6th, 2007 at 12:23 pm

thanksbut i have installed 1.1 but this time i can’ t see any link to manage sticky menu… where can i find the admin ?
i’m a bit out of there with this all dam thing!