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1. johny why - December 30, 2008

sidebar menu plugins fail in this theme.

i have tried 3 different page-menu plugins. none of them display dropdown menus in my sidebar. i only get my unordered page-list. any guesses as to why? seems to be an issue with my theme, but i don’t know what. these menus don’t work when i embed them in pages, either.

demo of problem:
http://laptopacademy.net/wp2/
(see sidebar)

menu plugins used:
Multi-Level Nav (formerly Suckerfish)
http://pixopoint.com/multi-level-navigation/

wp_jquery_dropdown
http://weeatbricks.com/2008/01/07/new-wordpress-plugin-for-creating-a-drop-down-navigation-menu-using-jquery/

jquery accordion
http://www.spicyexpress.net/general/accordion-the-new-wordpress-ajax-widget-to-enhance-your-sidebar-functions/

php:
i am using the php-code-widget plugin. my results were the same with the phpexec plugin. the php seems to work, otherwise i would not get the unordered lists from embedded wp_pages function.

javascript:
see the bottom of my demo sidebar for a javascript test, which works.

2. johny why - January 1, 2009

this theme is missing wp_head from between the HEAD tags.

Add before the tag in the theme and plugins will work correctly.

here’s the technical explanation:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Plugin_API_Hooks