Navigation menu is a really important part of a website, both visually and functionally. Though, I noticed that most blogs use a really simple navigation menu. A simple menu can be good sometimes, but if you’re looking for something more sophisticated, I’m pretty sure you’re going to enjoy this list.
Here’s 5 really cool tutorials to help you create a stunning navigation for your WordPress blog.
Creating Two-Tiered Conditional Navigation in WordPress
Which WordPress user doesn’t know Darren Hoyt, the creator the free magazine theme Mimbo Magazine ? In this great tutorial, Darren explains how to create a professional two-tiered navigation menu.
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How To: Making a Categories Drop-Down Menu
This was my first post on Hack WordPress, and seems like you guys enjoyed it. In this tutorial, I explain how to create a navigation bar with a category drop-drown menu.
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Adding a navigation bar to the default kubrick theme
The default “Kubrick” theme is probably the most used WordPress theme. Though, I think it should be better with a navigation bar. Hopefullt, this tutorial is here to help!
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WordPress: “Magazine style” Horizontal dropdown menu
One of my last tutorials, published on my blog CatsWhoCode. This how-to explain how you can create an horizontal dropdown menu.
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Using Sliding Doors with WordPress Navigation
This sliding doors CSS hack allows you to create sophisticated tabs for your navigation bar. Sadly, WordPress core functions wp_list_pages() and wp_list_categories() don’t allow you to add the required span tag to use this technique.
This tutorial will show you how to bypass this limitation by using a hack, and then you’ll be ready to enjoy sliding-doors for your WordPress navigation!
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Any other navigation tutorial that should be in the list? Leave us a comment below!
Jean-Baptiste Jung
Jean-Baptiste Jung is a 27 years old blogger/web developer/web designer who lives in the French-Speaking part of Belgium. Jean-Baptiste maintains two blogs: Cats Who Code where he and other authors write about Web Development, Web design, Blogging tips and WordPress, and WpRecipes where Jean shares useful WordPress snippets on a daily basis. When he's not blogging or having fun with codes, Jean loves to spend time with his wife and cat, and traveling everywhere he can.
awesome tips thanks so much for the great post. 
Great list and very thorough!
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awesome article. Thanks for sharing with us. 
Nice list of tutorials, to which you could add the scrollover integration tutorial given at wpcandy.
hey I will try to use the slide door style, seems really nice, thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome guys, I’m glad you enjoyed this post
I was learning templates, these elements is necessary,I hope that through learning, can make such a pretty navigation!
Great list! I love these types of posts.
Thanks for contributing this post JBJ!
How do I prevent my horizontal menu from showing up in all my google posts. When google looks at my individual posts it doesn’t even get to the content. All of my posts show up with the description of my blog and then the categories in the menu. Please help because my blog is indexed incorrectly!
@Kyle: Thanks! I’m glad to contribute to HWP.
@CocoaDiva: I’m pretty sure the problem is the prototype.js library which is linked just after your menu…Link it on the <head> part of your header.php file, and your site will load correctly.
Hi!
I am having dramas with the menu. When I hover on a Top menu the sub menu will display but hidden under the smooth gallery photos. It there a CSS coding that will overcome this at all.
Please follow this link for a screen shot at what I’m talking about.
http://www.epsilonfoundation.com.au/menu.jpg
Thanks, a two tier navigation is quite difficult to implement and this tutorial could have been a bit more elaborate.
very usefull.. thank
This was very useful.
Thanks so much ! This is useful for my site !
Looks great.
. Great tutorial. One question though, how do I go about changing the pages in my new menubar? Is there a way I can just select which pages go on the menubar rather than all of my pages? thanks
First I used “Adding a navigation bar to the default kubrick theme” because my blog theme is kubrick. Its okey with internet explorer, firefox, google chrome, safari and seamonkey but problem arise with Opera. This opera browser misplaced my navigation bar. It was so ugly. Then I replaced it with “sliding doors” and applied some sexy css code. Boila ! Problem solved, my blog looks fantastic with all browsers.
Thanks dude!
Hey nice tutorials,
I especially like the dropdown menu
I also like the fact that you fixed the IE6 problem with javascript.
Thanks, this will be very useful when building my future sites.
thanks for your useful article.
Thanks for sharing. Amazing post. I also try to stick with creating Two-Tiered menu as I think its the best from Usability side. You have listed so many options for menus. I will use some of these tutorials for building menu on my new blog i am working now.
i added pages to my site but when i try to put daily posts on different topic on two different pages only the HOME page accepts it……the other is a static post and cant add a tittle or post to it
i really wanted to have a top menu bar like in your hack code but what if wordpress upgraded its version? what will happen, is there changes to the output of my post?
I like the horizontal tab navigation. Could you tell me the name of the tab navigation used for comments, trackback, related posts at http://polpoinodroidi.com/wordpress-plugins/smilies-themer-toolbar/?
Thanks a lot
Great info! I’m looking for a navigation menu just like yours with 2 horizontal rows on top of each other. Are u using 2 seperate menu’s or 1 with a horizontal ‘sticky’ subrow?
Nice article. Helped me to make myself a menu bar which I’m going to use in my blog.
Very nice and useful list! As I like simple things, my favourite one is the navigation bar added to Kubrick theme.
Thanks for your useful tutorials.
Thank you for posting this menu tutorial. I prefer to use son of suckerfish menu:)
thanks for tutorial…