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Looking for help?

Greg — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:20:12 +0000

I almost never read the comments on the WordPress page where the NAVT plugin is hosted – I usually don’t have the time to go over there and read through everything. So if you are looking for help and you’ve written something there chances are very good I’m not going to see it. The best way to get my attention is to contact me through the contact form or write to me at greg@atalayastudio[DOT]com – I usually answer fairly quickly.

NAVT 1.0.34 and WordPress 2.8.5

Greg — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:37:26 +0000

Lately, people have written to me asking me about supporting WordPress 2.8.5 or they tell me that NAVT isn’t working with 2.8.5 – I don’t have that problem. If you are STILL using IE (particularly IE8) then put it in compatibility mode or get FireFox (for the PC). I haven’t spent any time trying to figure out why IE8 doesn’t work if it ISN’T in compatibility mode (I’m not sure I care enough).

Make sure the wp-root.php file is present in you NAVT installation directory.
Make sure that there aren’t any other plugins that are interfering by deactivating all of your plugins (except NAVT) and see if it works. If it works, begin activating plugins until it stops working. Then contact the plugin writer and complain about what it is doing.
Install Filefox and Firebug. Open Firebug, open the NAVT admin page and watch the Firebug console for Java Script errors.

You can contact me at greg @ gbellucci.us – I’ll try and help you if I can.

(this site runs wp 2.8.5 and navt 1.0.34- without issues)

Version 1.0.30

Greg — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:02:49 +0000

This should be the last fix for awhile. I made a correction to the navtadmin.js.php file. It uses the same wp-config.php include method used by navtajx.php. My thanks to Audi for the comment

Working with CSS Collapsing Menus and NAVT

Greg — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:37:54 +0000

A discussion in the NAVT forum has promoted me to sit down and explain how you can use CSS collapsing menus with the NAVT plugin. This article assumes you have some working knowledge of Cascaded Style Sheets used to style your Word Press theme and some experience with NAVT. The article explains where and how to begin integrating a collapsing menu into your web site using NAVT to construct the correct tag structure. This article applies to NAVT version 1.0.23 and above.

Example Menu

Below is an example of the type of menu we’re going to create using NAVT and two cascaded style sheets. The navigation elements shown in the menu are arbitrary items I put together from this web site.

These types of menus are relatively easy to construct. However, the tricky part is making them work with IE6 and most of this article deals with the IE6 solution.

Getting Started

Examples of CSS style sheets that contain rules for formatting horizontal, vertical, fly-out, drop-down, and cascading menus can be found all over the Internet. When asked, I usually send people to CSS Play which is owned by Stuart Nicholls. CSS Play has dozens of examples of pure CSS menus that you can freely use on your non-commercial web site provided you leave the copyright statements intact that appear in the CSS file. These can also be used on Commercial web site’s provided you obtain permission from CSS Play. For this tutorial, I’m going to use this CSS Play flyout menu to demonstrate the process of integrating the CSS into your web site in concert with NAVT.

You will, of course, need to change the menu text and background colors, adjust the menu width and heights and make any other style alterations to make the menu look right with the theme you intend to use the menu with.

The !DOCTYPE

Before I begin, it’s important to understand that your Word Press theme MUST use a standards compliant !DOCTYPE, and for Internet Explorer this MUST be the first line of your (x)html. Using will switch IE into quirks mode and your menu will not work correctly.