I’m looking to create a /menu/widget area like the following site:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/default.aspx
please see sections under downloads, security, support, about
is this considered a footer menu as well? my theme’s footer menu is just a standard menu on the bottom right corner of the theme like the example site as well but i want to creat a similar area just above it.
thanks
I’m going to assume you’re using Twenty Eleven theme, or another theme that supports child themes. If you’re using a custom theme, then you can just edit the existing Functions.php and add your additional functionality there, and then edit the existing Style.css. However, if your situation is different, please post back, and I’ll update to work with whatever theme you’re using.
As of Dec. 2012, this site’s footer is an example: http://dev.artbeforehygiene.com/
In Style.css, add the following code:
In functions.php, add the following code (this will create a bunch of extra nav menus that you can control within the WP Dashboard > Appearance > Menus). Twentyeleven already comes with three footer widget areas. However, if your theme only has one, you can add additional footer areas by uncommenting out the add footer code below.
Create your footer menus in Appearance > Menus. You’ll create a single menu for each of those sub menus in the footer you want. Make sure to save!
FYI, what you should be looking/googling for is usually referred to as a “Mega Menu”.
There are several plugins on CodeCanyon to help with it, I don’t know of one on wordpress.org for it.
Not endorsing any solution but as an example:
http://codecanyon.net/item/mega-menu-reloaded/1593152
You might also look over this post on WPMU http://wpmu.org/create-highly-customized-and-beautiful-mega-menus-for-wordpress/