dpdoug

I tried to put an html menu in the header.php file but I ended up getting an error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’

I uploaded the backup I’d made and I still kept getting the error. So I re-installed the theme and it’s working again now, but I can’t get the PixoPoint Multi-level menu to display anymore. I even installed the latest version and that didn’t help either.

What should I do to get the menu working again? All the settings are exactly the same as they were before.

I’ve tried WP Super Cache, and I don’t like the fact that I just makes copies of the whole page. So it just serves up a static page from the server instead of actually caching fragments of the page on the client side.

How would I go about “dumping the code straight into my theme”? Where would I put the code? If I did this would I still be able to cache it?

I’ve read some on caching, but PHP is not my forte. I’m a .net programmer. A “how to” guide on caching WordPress menu outputs would be extremely useful to me. Some of those tutorials are written assuming that the reader is a seasoned programmer in PHP, so it’s difficult to know how to use the code.

I understand there is database caching and memory caching. I think I’d be more interested in memory caching since it is much faster.

I think that creating the code for the menu might not only run faster, but just about as easy as I know HTML very well.

Is it just as fast?

I’ve tried creating a custom menu going by the example, but when I save it the code in the “Custom Code” text box goes away and the menu is not displayed. Evidently this is a glitch.

I thought maybe this could be a way to display my posts in the menu and not have to create (duplicate) pages just for the sake of having a menu.

Alas… it doesn’t work. ??

I installed the new plugin and tried it out and after the first load (15 sec) each page loads in 3 seconds — I am extremely happy with the new menu!

There is one thing that I would like to change though. I have to make a copy of each post and create a page just for the purpose creating the menu. I have a page, without post text, just for the purpose of having a top level menu item. Then I use the pages with the texts as children of the top level menu.

I would rather do the same for posts. That way I wouldn’t have to update the pages every time I change something in a post and I wouldn’t have to create duplicate pages for each post. Is there some way that I could implement this?

If I use categories for the top level menu items, the posts in each category don’t appear as child menu items. I’d like to be able to use posts the same way I use pages.

Probably the only way to go is use pages instead of posts, but then I wouldn’t have the recent posts to show.

I’d like to have my cake and eat it too…

I’m using the same theme that I was using on the other server. I don’t know if you mean the theme that installs with WP as default, or the one that is configured in the database.

Besides, I’m getting page not found when I click on the view link under one of the titles. There seems to be something that is not configured yet.

What are the ways around it? It seems that the main problem with DotNetNuke is the size of the database also.