In the attempt to shorten the menu, I decided to put the lists of monthly archives and categories into drop down menus. I just realized that in time they will (at least the monthly archives) get longer and longer and longer…<\/p>\n
So, my first problem was that I’ve made a hidden category for static pages and it would show on the menu if I used WP’s built-in dropdown_cats tag. <\/p>\n
Luckily, Ria at Typed by<\/a> has made a Drop Down Cats Plugin<\/a> with ability to exclude. What’s nice about it is that it a) formats subcategories differently from parents (indented with a hyphen), and b) it includes a post count parameter.<\/p>\n Archive tag (wp_get_archives) has an option to format the list of archives as an option list. You just need to build a drop-down menu function around it. Thus, as found at the WordPress forums<\/a>… \n<form name="archiveform" action="">
\n(remove the spaces after dots in “window.location=” if you’re going to cut-and-paste that — I needed to separate the words because it wouldn’t wrap nicely)<\/p>\n
\n <select name="monthly_arch" onchange="window.location = (document. forms. archiveform. monthly_arch[document. forms. archiveform. monthly_arch. selectedIndex].value);">
\n <option selected>Monthly archives<\/option>
\n <?php wp_get_archives<\/a>('type=monthly&format=option'); ?>
\n <\/select>
\n<\/form>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n