[Plugin: WordPress Menu Creator] Change menu name?

You can do both now in this new release and we have added the option to add the active link for styling.

Jared

Thank you.

But… where do I do this?
I upgraded to 1.0.5.

I’m a bit concerned about the new feature to add link target, since it is not XHTML compliant. Could you perhaps make to plugin ditch the target=”” output if no value is selected?

One last thing. None of the documentation links in the plugin are working, they all take you to the same 404-page.

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I apologize for the confusion. We are doing some house keeping in the site and the plugin and things are a bit of a mess currently.

I you are using 1.05 the links will work – If not the documentation can be found at WordPress Menu Manager. There are a lot of new features on version 1.05 and you should consider updating if you are using an earlier version.

Thanks!

SEOWolf

I have the 1.05 (at least that is what the plugin-manager is saying).
The documentation link still points to the wrong place: https://www.ultimateidx.com/menu-creator/
and not
https://www.ultimateidx.com/menu-manager/

I still can’t find where to change the name of the menu.
Where do I find that?

EntarteteMuzak, the only alternative for it to work XHTML Strict is to have the end user add a javascript alternative which we wanted to avoid.

I’m like you in that I do prefer to work in strict mode but transitional is exceptionally common among theme designers which is the reason why the decision was made to go with the target option.

Let me consider the JS a bit more and see what I can do.

As per guides here is one I quickly put together that is not as detailed as I would like.
https://www.jaredritchey.com/tutorials/menucreator/

Jared Ritchey

BTW from W3C.ORG

Why was the target attribute removed from XHTML 1.1?
It wasn’t. XHTML 1.0 comes in three versions: strict, transitional, and frameset. All three of these were deliberately kept as close as possible to HTML 4.01 as XML would allow. XHTML 1.1 is an updated version of XHTML 1.0 strict, and no version of HTML strict has ever included the target attribute. The other two versions, transitional and frameset, were not updated, because there was nothing to update. If you want to use the target attribute, use XHTML 1.0 transitional.

If people really think they need this changed I’ll do it for version 1.0.6 this week. Its not a major modification to the script.

Jared Ritchey

EntarteteMuzak: Thanks for the “Heads UP” on the broken documentation link /menu-creator/. I put a 301 on it to /menu-manager/ and will get it fixed ASAP on the plugin.

Thanks again!

SEOWolf

Thank you for your swift answers.
But I’m afraid that I sound like a broken record when I say that I still can’t find a way to edit main menu names, just sub-menu entries.

Some other minor things:

• If I enter a & it is not changed to &
  But if I enter & it is changed to &
• The target value is not listed after hitting update.

Do you mean the actual “MENU TITLE” or are you asking about menu item names?

If MENU TITLE, that isn’t a feature but I can see the importance of having it so I’ll work on that as well.

As per the ampersand, if you put in the correct & it may show that is is changed but in reality when looking at the source its the correct & in the code so your site will validate and not toss an error.

Jared Ritchey

Yes I meant the Menu title. I would be VERY handy if I could change those.

Yes, you are right. Ampersand as & now works (I guess I was refering to the previous version).

Some bugs:

– “Target” value needs to be entered for each time I edit an entry.
– As for ampersands, & works fine, but if I edit the entry only & remains so I need to change it back to & if I want to save.

Thanks for a great plugin

Ok I have updated this item to now feature the correct REL method for opening in a new window so it validates with XHTML Strict.

You do need to add the following to the header area of your site usually in header.php

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/wp-content/plugins/wp-menu-creator/external.js”></script>
Jared

Very nice.

How about adding a feature so that I can change menu title?
Still no progress?

Yes its on my list to add this week. I’m updating a small fix in a moment which adds additional features to the link REL aka Relationship attribute which will allow for both “NoFollow and New Window”

Jared

Hey this feature is now added, you should have it fully compliant now.