Custom 1 Slot works, But Custom 2, 3, and 4 mess up.

[jasonelmore]

Just started using this plugin the other day, and i wanted to make my own custom menu’s without using the catagories and pages and all that other stuff. Well from what i read, you can do that with the four custom slots.

So here’s what i did, I hovered over the Example Link and copied the html from it and successfully built a menu and it worked, and was properly formatted.  But when i copied the html over to the second custom slot and put the exact same html, it does’nt make a menu, instead it makes a bulleted list shown in the picture below.

[img:2ytsiwn0]http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/jasonelmore1983/th_menuproblem.jpg[/img:2ytsiwn0][/url:2ytsiwn0]

It’s the same exact information, so why isn’t the plugin reading it just like it would in the custom 1 slot? I made sure it was set up top in the menu, and i’ve included some pics of my settings below. BTW, i tried it in custom 3 and 4 also, still a no go.

[img:2ytsiwn0]http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/jasonelmore1983/th_menu2.jpg[/img:2ytsiwn0][/url:2ytsiwn0] [img:2ytsiwn0]http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/jasonelmore1983/th_menu1.jpg[/img:2ytsiwn0][/url:2ytsiwn0]

Thanks guys

[imported_Ryan]

Hi,
It’s impossible to see what’s going on without seeing the code in action. If you post a URL to an example of the problem, I’ll take a look for you.

[jasonelmore]

ok, here is the code, (btw, i haven’t messed with the css.) The HTML in Custom 4, is the same EXACT code from custom 1, and the custom 1 slot reads it fine, but the rest of the slots does not.

Here is the code in custom 1 and custom 4, however custom 4 does not read it properly.

[code:2gps5xq9]
<li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-overview/">Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/">Weapons</a>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/assault-weapons/">Assault</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/engineer-weapons/">Engineer</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/medic-weapons/">Medic</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/recon-weapons/">Recon</a></li>
  </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/vehicle-descriptions/">Vehicles</a>
</ul>
</li>
[/code:2gps5xq9]

I’m using the Arras Theme and when if first downloaded this theme, The readme.txt said that they recommend your plugin, and the theme is designed for your plugin in mind from what i understand.

thanks for your help

[imported_Ryan]

By "seeing the code in action" I actually meant a live page as the CSS was already visible in your images.

Having said that, there is an extra </ul> tag which is probably causing your problems:
[code:3a4yv7ov]<li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-overview/">Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/">Weapons</a>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/assault-weapons/">Assault</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/engineer-weapons/">Engineer</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/medic-weapons/">Medic</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/recon-weapons/">Recon</a></li>
  </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/vehicle-descriptions/">Vehicles</a>
<!–
This tag needed to be removed
</ul>
–>
</li>[/code:3a4yv7ov]

[jasonelmore]

Nope, that does not work man, i removed the </ul> tag and it still does the same thing.

My site is live and i get around 100 visitors a day. And For you to see it in action i would have to practically leave my site with a broken menu until you see this post and post back a reply.

Anymore suggestions?

EDIT: I have determined there is something wrong with the my main theme’s css, since i disabled your stylesheet, to make it match my page more. If you have some extra time to burn one day, please look over my css file and tell me what i need to change in the nav section to make this properly format. I just realized what i had done, sorry..  Thanks

My css file.

http://www.badcompanytwo.com/personal/jason.css

EDIT AGAIN!

I thought it was where i disabled the stylesheet option in the settings tab of your plugin, but it is not, the menu still formats poorly when i set the stylesheet to normal. I’m at a loss here

[imported_Ryan]

&quot;jasonelmore&quot; wrote:

My site is live and i get around 100 visitors a day. And For you to see it in action i would have to practically leave my site with a broken menu until you see this post and post back a reply.

Just make a copy of a page and upload it.

[jasonelmore]

I never could get the page copied, so I will leave my site’s menu broken until you reply. I added a link box on the side so ppl can still browse the sections, but yeah,

You can see it in action now,[b:26calgyi] Thanks  soooo much[/b:26calgyi] for helping me thus far. Hopefully we can figure this out. And like i said a few post back, the arras theme website actually recommends to everyone to use your plugin, its got to be something i’m missing.

Thanks

http://www.badcompanytwo.com

is my website.

[imported_Ryan]

&quot;jasonelmore&quot; wrote:

I never could get the page copied, so I will leave my site’s menu broken until you reply.

Er, what weren’t you able to do that? It’s just a matter of copying the code. It only takes a second.

My first solution seems to fix all of your problems. Are sure you removed the correct one?

Like I said before, just remove that invalid </ul> tag and your problems should be fixed:
[code:1o2ezqz2]<li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-overview/">Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/">Weapons</a>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/assault-weapons/">Assault</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/engineer-weapons/">Engineer</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/medic-weapons/">Medic</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/recon-weapons/">Recon</a></li>
  </ul>
</li>

<li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/vehicle-descriptions/">Vehicles</a>
<!– </ul> –>
</li>[/code:1o2ezqz2]

[imported_Ryan]

While looking through your code, I also noticed a huge number of CSS and javascript files in there. You need to get rid of those, or at least minimize the number of them as they’ll be slowing your site down quite a bit I imagine.

[jasonelmore]

I was under the impression you needed all assets in the copy, that would normally be available for the whole site../

[b:1kxucw36]However[/b:1kxucw36] It’s removed now (i must have changed it back after it didn’t work the first time)  , But still the problem remains..

Here is all my code in the custom 1 slot. Right now it’s the only custom slot i’m using.

[code:1kxucw36]
<li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-overview/">Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/">Weapons</a>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/assault-weapons/">Assault</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/engineer-weapons/">Engineer</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/medic-weapons/">Medic</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/recon-weapons/">Recon</a></li>
  </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/vehicle-descriptions/">Vehicles</a>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-overview/">Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/">Weapons</a>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/assault-weapons/">Assault</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/engineer-weapons/">Engineer</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/medic-weapons/">Medic</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/recon-weapons/">Recon</a></li>
  </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/vehicle-descriptions/">Vehicles</a>
</li>
[/code:1kxucw36]

The menu starts messing up in the same section of the nav bar every time.. It’s like theirs some hidden div there that’s messing it up, but i’ve looked over the code tediously for several hours and nothing is there that could be causing this.

[jasonelmore]

Just now reinstalled your menu plug-in from scratch. I even manually went in and deleted the folder via ftp after uninstalling it in wordpress.

yet it does the same exact thing again and again. I’m just looking for a way to have menu, that when you hover over it, it will list sub menu’s.

Wordpress’s default menu will not let me do this unless you have your navigation set to categories, and I dont want to do that.

Just give me a update when you get time, I’ll leave it up for a couple more days.

[b:38nn3bdj]EDIT:[/b:38nn3bdj]- I just put the menu in maintenance mode, so you’ll have to add the (?mln=on) to the end of my website to view it.

http://badcompanytwo.com/?mln=on

[imported_Ryan]

Unless you remove that </ul> tag I can not help you. Your menu will never work correctly if you don’t remove it.

If you require further assistance, feel free to sign up for Premium Support and send login details for your site and I’ll happily remove the </ul> tag for you.

[code:1lpl9ju5]<li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-overview/">Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/">Weapons</a>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/assault-weapons/">Assault</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/engineer-weapons/">Engineer</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/medic-weapons/">Medic</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/recon-weapons/">Recon</a></li>
  </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/vehicle-descriptions/">Vehicles</a>

<!–       </ul>       –>

</li>
<li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-overview/">Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/">Weapons</a>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/assault-weapons/">Assault</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/engineer-weapons/">Engineer</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/medic-weapons/">Medic</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/bad-company-2-weapons-headquaters/recon-weapons/">Recon</a></li>
  </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://badcompanytwo.com/vehicle-descriptions/">Vehicles</a>
</li>[/code:1lpl9ju5]

[jasonelmore]

man I DID REMOVE THE UL tag

Screenshot to prove it!

[img:3adi06px]http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/jasonelmore1983/th_herewego.jpg[/img:3adi06px][/url:3adi06px]

It is still removed right now. if you see one via debugging, it’s got to be the one that your plugin adds. You did mention it wraps it all in ul tags.

EDIT: unless you mean remove every <ul> and </ul> in every bit of the code.
But if i Do that, that defeats the whole purpose.. I want to be able to have sub menu’s, and taking <ul> out of some of them, takes the sub menu’s out when ppl hover over the main links.

I would gladly pay $20-$40 to get this fixed, but I cannot afford $100 for one month of support.

[imported_Ryan]

It appears to be working fine now.

[jasonelmore]

Ditch’d the plugin completely, no thanks man, pagemesh plugin did what i was looking to do.

thanks anyways

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