Working on evaluating MT as a solution for an in-house CMS, and one requirement is a standard CSS driven drop-down menu. I've gotten into adding items to the top nav, and have a handle on that, and can see how that might be used to create a left-nav, but I don't know how to create the drop-down navigation using the folder/page structure.
Anyone have any samples of this?.. (I'm familiar with the CSS and JS involved, but need to know how to reference the folders/pages).
Thanks!
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
There is a widget called "Page Listing" which generates a listing of the folders and pages for a blog. That would be an excellent starting point for you. It shouldn't be hard for you to make a new widget based on it that generates the output as a drop down menu.
I was hoping to doing something based on the code at:
http://www.movabletype.org/2008/08/creating_drop-down_navigation_with_movable_type.html
but modify it so it uses the new folder/page structure. Like I said, I understand the CSS and JS, it's the question of the MT markup hooks that befuddle me.
I'll take a look at that "Page Listing" widget, and see if I can find some clues there. But any other tips would be greatly appreciated. Someone must have done this already...
Is that "Page Listing" widget part of MT 3.x, and depricated in MT 4.2 with the Universal Template Set?..
No, it's part of the Personal Blog template set. However, I'm surprised that it's not listed under Widgets in the Universal one too because that could be useful there. Just create a test blog based on the personal blog template set, grab the markup for that widget and delete the test blog.