Navigation Drop Down Categories

[Vasanthan]

wow sounds great...

if I have understood correctly it would be like,

Create a page named "Category", with the category.php Template (once you are done with it) selected, have a link on the top menu and when someone clicks on it, bang you get a page displaying the entire list of categories, is that what you mean?

[sayontan]

Almost. The file "category.php" is present in the theme - it loads up when you select a category. What will be provided is "categories.php" (note the plural). The rest of the process is as you described.

[Vasanthan]

great man, that sounds cool.

Can't wait to start using it
When do you think you it will be ready? Can I say both this and the other feature max in a weeks time?

Hey and also, when I type http://www.testsite.com it shows the front-page and when I try it again with http://www.testsite.com/index.php it again shows my front-page. I understand this like, index.php is shown as my front-page. I read that index.php is the template "default", while creating a "new page", now when I check with one of my pages having template "default" it should be displaying the front-page contents, right? but its not, so where do you think I have understood it wrong?

[sayontan]

No - I cannot commit to both in one week. This is not my full-time job (and my full-time job is extremely time-consuming), so I only work on it when I have time to spare.

[Vasanthan]

yeah I can understand, how would I get to know if they are ready? Do you post it here?

Also did you read my above query?

[sayontan]

Well, when you look at your "Themes" page in your admin menu you can see messages indicating if a new version of a theme is available. That tells you when you can upgrade. Also, I typically announce big releases on the Aquoid News blog, so you could subscribe to it.

Technically the default landing page for a blog is home.php. If that is not present, it defaults to index.php. You could avoid using either and explicitly set a page as the front page from your blog's admin settings. A default "page template" is the page.php file, not index.php. Again, please refer to the link I posted in my prior response.

[Vasanthan]

Technically the default landing page...

am not sure am getting the point, will have to work it out.

Actually i want both my "Frontpage" (which shows the latest 10 posts) as well as another top-menu item - "news" to show the same content. Still struggling to figure this out.

Thanks for the patience though.

[sayontan]

This is fairly easy. Simply go to 'Navigation Bar Setup', set 'Show "Home" page?' to 'Show a text link' and '"Home" page text' to 'News'

[Vasanthan]

Great and now by default this comes first on the menu but i want this some where as the 3rd menu with 3 more sub-menus, how do I go about?

[sayontan]

This is the first time I am hearing of somebody asking their front page to be the third on the list at the top! Boy, the requirements do get weirder.

See this thread: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19&start=0 . You can use this concept and instead of linking external pages, link internal pages through the plugin. You can create a dummy page redirecting to your front-page and set an order for it in the "Edit Page" menu.