Quickly add a Category DropDown to Thematic 0.9

With the launch of Thematic 0.9 we now have out of the box drop-down menus to work with. This is one of the many features added to 0.9 that was requested by the community. However sometimes one might want to replace the default Thematic menu with a menu composed with the categories and sub-categories of your WordPress installation.

Although I’ve done in the past a similar tutorial that one isn’t working anymore with the latest Thematic version so here is a quick and easy way to add a Category DropDown.

First create a ChildTheme.
Second create and then open the functions.php file that should be found in your new ChildTheme.
Third add this code to the functions.php file:

[sourcecode language="php"]

#Add a drop down category menu
function childtheme_category_menu() { ?>
<div id="category-menu" class="menu">
<ul id="category-nav" class="sf-menu">
<?php wp_list_categories(‘title_li=’); ?>
</ul>
</div>
<?php }
add_action(‘wp_page_menu’,'childtheme_category_menu’);

[/sourcecode]

Save and test. You should now have a drop-down from your categories!

Further Reading:

1. Replacing the Thematic Menu with a DropDown List of Categories
2. Drop Down Menu for Thematic
3. Exclude posts from WordPress Navigation in Thematic
4. Green anyone? Try Commune – Thematic Child Theme!
5. Add a search box to the thematic menu