Shailan.com » how to http://shailan.com About wordpress plugins, themes & web design Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:46:36 +0000 en hourly 1 Custom Dropdown Menu Using WordPress 3 Nav Menus http://shailan.com/custom-dropdown-menu-using-wordpress-3-nav-menus/ http://shailan.com/custom-dropdown-menu-using-wordpress-3-nav-menus/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:44:12 +0000 Matt Say http://shailan.com/?p=1025 custom-menu-dropdown

Wordpress 3 brought many great features. One of those great features was navigation menu support. Although many themes not supporting this great feature yet, you can use it with dropdown menu widget to create custom menus on your site. In this tutorial i will explain you how to use custom navigation menus with dropdown menu widget. First make sure you have latest wordpress installation. Custom Navigation Menu support comes with Wordpress 3. So if your wordpress version is lower than that, you need to update first. Don't worry, it will worth it ;) If you have the latest wordpress installation now, you will see Menus link under Appearance section of the admin panel. Click on Menus to start building our brand new custom menu. Wordpress may warn you about "theme doesn't support custom menus" but don't worry. We will be using menu in our dropdown widget so it doesn't matter. You see white box there under + sign. Enter a name for our new menu. For example, let's call it, "My Custom Dropdown". How original! Click on create menu button afterwards to create the menu. Your menu is created now but it doesn't have any link inside. You will see tools on the left to add links to your custom menu. You can add blog pages & categories to your menu. You can also add custom links to your menu. After you add links, you can easily order your menu items using drag and drop. You can create sub menus dragging a link item under another. After your ordering is complete, save your menu. This menu is now added to dropdown menu widget. Steps from now on requires dropdown menu widget installed on your site. If you haven't already click here to get it. Add a dropdown menu widget to your widget area. Note that not all the themes have header widget areas. I like my custom themes to have it. Makes wordpress more customizable. Select your custom menu from the Menu selection of dropdown menu widget. And click on Save. If you just installed the dropdown menu widget you may need to visit menu style page. Change dropdown menu theme to any theme you like and then click on Save Changes. Now visit your blog and enjoy your new custom menu. Cheers! ]]> custom-menu-dropdown

WordPress 3 brought many great features. One of those great features was navigation menu support. Although many themes not supporting this great feature yet, you can use it with dropdown menu widget to create custom menus on your site. In this tutorial i will explain you how to use custom navigation menus with dropdown menu widget. First make sure you have latest wordpress installation. Custom Navigation Menu support comes with WordPress 3. So if your wordpress version is lower than that, you need to update first. Don't worry, it will worth it ;) If you have the latest wordpress installation now, you will see Menus link under Appearance section of the admin panel. Click on Menus to start building our brand new custom menu. WordPress may warn you about "theme doesn't support custom menus" but don't worry. We will be using menu in our dropdown widget so it doesn't matter. You see white box there under + sign. Enter a name for our new menu. For example, let's call it, "My Custom Dropdown". How original! Click on create menu button afterwards to create the menu. Your menu is created now but it doesn't have any link inside. You will see tools on the left to add links to your custom menu. You can add blog pages & categories to your menu. You can also add custom links to your menu. After you add links, you can easily order your menu items using drag and drop. You can create sub menus dragging a link item under another. After your ordering is complete, save your menu. This menu is now added to dropdown menu widget. Steps from now on requires dropdown menu widget installed on your site. If you haven't already click here to get it. Add a dropdown menu widget to your widget area. Note that not all the themes have header widget areas. I like my custom themes to have it. Makes wordpress more customizable. Select your custom menu from the Menu selection of dropdown menu widget. And click on Save. If you just installed the dropdown menu widget you may need to visit menu style page. Change dropdown menu theme to any theme you like and then click on Save Changes. Now visit your blog and enjoy your new custom menu. Cheers!

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With the help of google you can easily save favicons of your favorite sites. You can also use this link for your link lists so that they will display favicons of your sites next to your blogroll links. Here is how to save a favicon: Step 1. click here : http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.google.com Step 2. Change the domain at the end of URL. (eg. http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=mail.google.com) If you would like to use favicons for your blogroll / wordpress links you can use this URL as image url also. See the example below: favicon-as-link-image-in-wordpress]]> favicons_collection

With the help of google you can easily save favicons of your favorite sites. You can also use this link for your link lists so that they will display favicons of your sites next to your blogroll links. Here is how to save a favicon: Step 1. click here : http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.google.com Step 2. Change the domain at the end of URL. (eg. http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=mail.google.com) If you would like to use favicons for your blogroll / wordpress links you can use this URL as image url also. See the example below: favicon-as-link-image-in-wordpress

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]]> If you need to use UTF8 charset and want to convert your database charset to UTF8 here is a simple way to do it:

  1. Make sure you backup your [tag]database[/tag] (If your database is new no need to think about that)
  2. Now open your notepad and Copy & Paste code below: 
    <?php
// Database info

$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbuser = "db_user";
$dbpass = "your_dbpass";
$dbname = "your_dbname";

//—————

header("Content-type: text/plain");

$dbconn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die( mysql_error() );
$db = mysql_select_db($dbname) or die( mysql_error() );

$sql = "SHOW TABLES";
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die( mysql_error() );

while ( $row = mysql_fetch_row($result) )
{
$table = mysql_real_escape_string($row[0]);
$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci, CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8";
mysql_query($sql) or die( mysql_error() );
print "$table changed to UTF-8.\n";
}

mysql_close($dbconn);
?>
  3. Edit database username & password data in the code.
  4. Save that file as convert2Utf8.php and upload to your site’s base/admin directory.
  5. Browse that file using your browser (Eg. http://myserver.com/convert2Utf8.php)
  6. Check for the results..

This simple php script converts all the tables to UTF8.

Cheers!

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