You might’ve noticed that there is a menu underneath the header here on the site. That is actually something from the Core theme, and you can activate it easily enough in your own theme. Why? Because it is an widget area called Submenu!
Go to Appearance > Widgets in WordPress admin and put a text widget in the Submenu widget area. Don’t give the text widget a title, that will surely look bad.
Now, in the text widget, put an unordered list, which each list item containing a link. You’ll need to hack this HTML code yourself, this is the one from this very site.
[html]<ul>
<li><a href="/core" title="The Core theme">Core</a></li>
<li><a href="/about" title="About the project">About the Project</a></li>
<li><a href="/subscribe" title="Subscribe">Subscribe</a></li>
<li><a href="/contact/" title="Contact Information"> Contact Information</a></li>
</ul>[/html]
In any other situation that would just output a bullet list, like this:
But in the Submenu widget area, it transforms to a simple and snazzy menu.
Future versions will support the Page widget, but that’s not quite done yet (it is on the wishlist), so you’ll have to settle for this handcoded text widget menu for your Core powered sites for now.
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My latest book is called Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful and is all about theming. The book is available now from your favorite online retailer (or physical bookstore).
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Test comment. —love the theme!
I’m glad you like it!
great site! BTW you spelled “appearance” incorrectly…
Ooops! Fixed it, thanks.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who is a spelling zealot.
So, while on topic:
“Now, in the text widget, but an unordered list”
should be
“Now, in the text widget, put an unordered list”
Thanks for the great theme, and the book.
Ooops.