Please note: These are instruction for an alpha version of our plugin. This URL was only intended for our alpha testers.

Installation

If it doesn’t already exist, add the following code wherever you want the menu to appear in your theme (usually header.php).

<?php wp_page_menu(); ?>

Getting it working with your theme

Some of the more popular themes such as Hybrid, Thematic and Thesis will work automatically when the ‘Auto theme support’ option is chosen under the settings tab as do themes exported from our Theme Generator.

The following is an example of the code modified in the WordPress Default (Kubrick) theme:

<div id="header" role="banner">
<div id="headerimg">
<h1><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
<div class="description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>
</div>
</div>
<?php wp_page_menu(); ?>
<hr />

List of help pages

Note: This list will be growing as we add more help articles to the list

Support

Please do not email us directly or via our contact form for unpaid support. We prefer to offer support in our forum so that others may learn from the advice.

If you are having difficulties getting the menu to appear correctly …

If your theme doesn’t automatically work out of the box and you are having trouble integrating the menu into your theme, please read on for simple instructions on how to integrate it into other themes …

Paid support

For direct help via the plugin author, please sign up for our Premium Support service … http://pixopoint.com/services/premium-support/

Our Premium Support option is ideal if you have insufficient time to fix any problems you may have or simply don’t know much about coding, we not only offer techinical support and access to our latest betas but we will also install the plugin and set it up on your site if needed. We also do customisations of the plugin for some premium members, although we recommend contacting us via our contact form for such requests as some customisations may require extra payment depending on their complexity.

If you have any questions about our premium services or are looking for other help with WordPress or (X)HTML/CSS projects including theme development please do not hesitate to contact us via our contact form. More information about our premium services is available on our site … http://pixopoint.com/services/premium-support/

FAQ

Q: Your plugin doesn’t work in IE, why don’t you fix it?
A: The plugin does work with IE, you just haven’t integrated it correctly. See ‘Free support’ below for some tips on how to get it working with IE.

Q: How do I change the menu contents?
A: See the big tab at the top of the screen right now which says “Menu Contents”? Click that …

Q: How do I change the colour/font/whatever in my menu?
A: Visit our CSS generator, the CSS you create on that page can be entered into the “Advanced” tab of the plugins admin page.

Q: How do I get a fully customised version?

A: Leave a message on the PixoPoint Contact Page with your requirements and we will get back to you ASAP with pricing information. Alternatively you can sign up for our Premium Support option which gives you access to our dropdown, flyout and slider menu CSS generator, plus access to our premium support forum.

Q: Why can’t the plugin do X, Y or Z?
A: It probably can, we just haven’t supplied instructions on how to do it. If you have any requests, then please leave them in the PixoPoint menu support board. We often update the plugin with new functionality and we’re far more likely to include the functionality you want if we know there is a demand for it already.

Free support

If you follow all of the instructions here, activate the plugin and find the menu is appearing on your site but looks all messed up, then the problem is probably caused by a clash between your themes CSS and plugins CSS. These problems can usually be remedied by removing the wrapper tags which surround the menu in your theme. For example, most themes will have some HTML such as <div id="nav"><ul><?php wp_list_pages(); ?></ul></div> which contains the existing themes menu. By placing the wp_page_menu() code between those DIV tags, the menu will often interact with that DIV tag. The solution is to either remove the DIV tag or to alter it’s CSS so that it doesn’t interact with the menu.

If you require further help with the plugin, please visit the PixoPoint Menu Plugin page or the PixoPoint menu support board.

We are happy to answer questions but we’ve been noticing lately that more time is being spent teaching people what to ask rather than actually answering anything. So before posting questions on the PixoPoint support forum, please read the following tips to help us answer your questions faster.

  • Where is your CSS? Please specify the exact URL.
  • What modifications have you made to the CSS? (apart from changes made in our CSS generator)
  • What browsers are you having problems with?
  • What is the URL for your site?
  • Provide a link to the problem. Most problems can not be answered without actually seeing your site. If you don’t want to install the plugin on your live site and don’t have a test site to show us, then view the source code in your browser when you do have the plugin installed, save it to an HTML file and upload that somewhere so that we can see what the page looks like.
  • Do not bother providing us with HTML and/or CSS code snippets (without a link). There is very little we can do without seeing the entire page as most problems are caused by an obscure piece of CSS somewhere else on the page.
  • Let us know if you have modified the CSS. If it is modified we are unlikely to offer support for free. Rummaging through other peoples code is too time consuming sorry.
  • If you are not storing your CSS in the WP plugins settings page, let us know which exact file it is in. Searching through a dozen CSS files in your theme trying to find your menu code is not fun.

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Other plugins we recommend

The pageMash and My Category Order Plugin and My Page Order Plugins by froman118 allow you to set the order of ‘WordPress Categories and Pages’ through a drag and drop interface. This replaces the need to use the clumsy default method of setting category and page orders built into WordPress. Andy Mortia has created a widget for the PixoPoint Menu plugin which allows you to place the menu code into your site via the drag and drop widget interface in WordPress.

If you know of any other plugins which work well with the ‘PixoPoint Menu plugin then please us know about them.