Beta Version: Warning! Warning! Warning!

This plugin is beta software… heck, this is the very first version of my very first plugin. Use entirely at your own risk. I am going to make absolutely no effort to provide a sensible upgrade path (at least not until I’ve made a couple more changes… should only take a couple weeks) . In other words, anything could change at any time. Consider yourself warned!

Overview: What Does It Do?

The Big Big Menu Wordpress plugin gives you a simple administrative interface to manage the main menu on your blog.

• Menu can include any set of Pages, Categories, Author Pages, and Links
• Drag-and-drop menu reordering
• Instant AJAX updating

Requirements: Will It Work For Me?

Probably. If not, you’ll realize it right away. This plugin will work with any theme that uses wp_list_pages() to output the main navigation. You can also easily add the generated menu to your own custom theme. So far, I’ve tested this plugin with the following themes: Wordpress Default, Sandbox

Note: The admin interface for this plugin requires a Javascript-enabled browser.

Screenshots

Download

• Current Version (0.1)

Basic Installation

1. Download and extract the plugin files.
2. Move the ‘bigbigmenu’ folder into your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
3. Activate the plugin through the Wordpress Admin ‘Plugins’ page.
4. Go to ‘Manage’ > ‘Big Big Menu’ in Wordpress Admin to arrange your menu.
5. Visit your blog’s homepage… chances are, the new menu is already working.

Usage

1. Go to ‘Manage’ > ‘Big Big Menu’ in Wordpress Admin to arrange your menu.
2. You will see the following:
   • Left Column: the orange boxes show the current menu configuration.
   • Middle Column: the tabs contain the available menu items grouped by type
   • Right Column: the plugin settings… you probably don’t need to change these
3. Click the “plus” signs in available menu items to add them to the menu
4. Drag-and-drop current menu items to change their order
5. Click on the “minus” signs in current menu items to remove them from the menu

Advanced: Template Tag

If this plugin doesn’t work with your template out-of-the-box, you can still use it by adding a little code to your template files. This requires a bit of knowledge about HTML and PHP, but can be done through the ‘Design’ > ‘Theme Editor’ area of Wordpress Admin. Here’s How:

1. Open the template file where your main navigation menu is located.
2. Add the tag `<? bigbig_menu() ?>` to the template where the menu should appear.
3. Save the template file.

Frequently Asked Questions

Coming soon… as soon as somebody starts asking questions.

License

Big Big Menu by Jason Tremblay is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Tech Support

I’d appreciate any feedback you can give. Please post questions in the comments below, and I will try to address them.