The plugin not only does a good job with the suckerfish menu, but it also makes it very easy to customize your menu. Add drop-down categories, include or exclude pages, add custom code and even add a search box in your menu.  I’ve worked with the plugin extensively integrating it into another theme, but here’s the quick solution to using PixoPoint with Flexibility 2 and FlexSqueeze.

Edit the header.php file

The first thing you want to do is go into the ‘Editor’ option under the Appearance tab in WordPress. Find your header.php file and click on it to open the code in the edit box.

If editing code is not your thing, you can always just highlight all the code (Ctrl-A), copy (Ctrl-C) and paste into Notepad or some other text editor.  That way if you break it you can always just paste it back in and save it back to the default.

First, depending on if your navigation is above the header or below it, that will determine which code to edit.

Navigation above the header

If your navigation is above the header, look for this line of code:

<?php if ($flex_nav_position == "above") { ?>

Enter the following code immediately after the line above:

<?php if (function_exists('pixopoint_menu')) {pixopoint_menu();} else { ?>

And lastly, add this line of code immediately after the </div> tag 10 lines down:

<?php } ?>

Your final revised code will look like this:

<?php if ($flex_nav_position == "above") { ?>
<?php if (function_exists('pixopoint_menu')) {pixopoint_menu();} else { ?>
<div id="nav" style="clear:both;">
  <ul>
    <?php if ($flex_nav_home == "no") { ?>
    <?php } else { ?>
    <li><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><span>Home</span></a></li>
    <?php } ?>
    <?php echo preg_replace('@\<li([^>]*)>\<a([^>]*)>(.*?)\<\/a>@i', '<li$1><a$2><span>$3</span></a>', wp_list_pages('echo=0&orderby=name&exclude=&title_li=&depth=1')); ?>
  </ul>
  <div class="clearer"></div>
</div>
<?php } ?>
<?php } else { ?>
<?php } ?>

The code above can simply be copied and pasted into your header.php file if you’d rather not add the individual lines.

Navigation below the header

Adding the PixoPoint menu into your navigation below the header is almost identical to the process above, you are just inserting the code lower in your header code. So if your navigation is located below your header, look for the following line of code in the header.php file:

<?php if ($flex_nav_position == "below") { ?>

To make this easy, just copy the code below and replace all the code from the line above to the end of the header.php file:

<?php if ($flex_nav_position == "below") { ?>
<?php if (function_exists('pixopoint_menu')) {pixopoint_menu();} else { ?>
<div id="nav" style="clear:both;">
  <ul>
    <?php if ($flex_nav_home == "no") { ?>
    <?php } else { ?>
    <li><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><span>Home</span></a></li>
    <?php } ?>
    <?php echo preg_replace('@\<li([^>]*)>\<a([^>]*)>(.*?)\<\/a>@i', '<li$1><a$2><span>$3</span></a>', wp_list_pages('echo=0&orderby=name&exclude=&title_li=&depth=1')); ?>
  </ul>
  <div class="clearer"></div>
</div>
<?php } ?>
<?php } else { ?>
<?php } ?>

That’s it for the header.php modifications. Now we’ll add the CSS code to style the menu.

Edit the style.php file

Whether you’re using Flexibility 2 or FlexSqueeze, you’ll need to add the following code to the style.php file in order for the menus to look good and be able to customize the colors via the theme options.

If you’re using Flexibility 2, you will not need to resave your theme settings in order to preview the changes, but with FlexSqueeze, you’ll need to resave your theme settings after editing the style.php file in order to rewrite the style sheet.

Go into your file editor in WP and open the style.php file. Copy and paste the following code at the very bottom of the file.

/*-- PixoPoint Menu CSS  --*/
 
#pixopoint_menu1 {
	width:100%;
	height:33px;
	background:#<?php echo $flex_nav_barback; ?> url("images/navfhleft.png") repeat-x;
	background-position:50% 0;
	margin:0;}
#pixopoint_menu1 ul {
	width:100%;
	border:none;
	background:none;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	list-style:none;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 li {
	border:none;
	background:none;
	background:#<?php echo $flex_nav_barback; ?> url("images/navfhleft.png");
	color:#<?php echo $flex_nav_txtclr; ?>;
	line-height:33px;
	z-index:20;
	letter-spacing:0px;
	background:;
	font-weight:bold;
	font-size:12px;
	padding:0;
	margin:0 0px;
	;float:left;
	font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;
	position:relative;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 li:hover,#pixopoint_menu1 li.sfhover {
	background:#<?php echo $flex_nav_tabhvr; ?> url("images/navfhleft.png");
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 li a {
	border:none;
	background:none;
	text-decoration:none;
	display:block;
	padding:0 12px;
	color:#<?php echo $flex_nav_txtclr; ?>;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 li a:hover {
	border:none;
	background:none;
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#<?php echo $flex_nav_hvrcolor; ?>;
	background-position:100% -150px;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul {
	position:absolute;
	left:-999em;
	top:33px;
	width:150px;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 li:hover ul,#pixopoint_menu1 li.sfhover ul {
	left:auto;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li a {
	padding:4px 10px;
	text-transform:normal;
	font-variant:normal;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li {
	letter-spacing:0px;
	color:#444444;
	z-index:20;
	width:150px;
	font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;
	font-size:11px;
	font-weight:normal;
	font-style:normal;
	background:#FFFFFF;
	border-bottom:1px solid #cccccc;
	border-left:1px solid #cccccc;
	border-right:1px solid #cccccc;
	margin:0;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li a {
	line-height:22px;
	color:#444444;
	text-decoration:none;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li:hover a,#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li.sfhover a {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	text-decoration:none;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li:hover li a,#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li.sfhover li a {
	color:#444444;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li:hover li a:hover,#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li.sfhover li a:hover {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li:hover,#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li.sfhover {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	background:#333333;  /*-- This is the drop-down menu hover background color  --*/
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul ul li {
	font-size:1em;}#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul ul, #pixopoint_menu1 ul ul ul ul {
	position:absolute;
	margin-left:-999em;
	top:0;
	width:150px;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 li li:hover ul,#pixopoint_menu1 li li.sfhover ul,#pixopoint_menu1 li li li:hover ul,#pixopoint_menu1 li li li.sfhover ul {
	margin-left:150px;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li:hover li a,#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li.sfhover li a {
	text-decoration:none;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li li:hover a,#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li li.sfhover a {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	text-decoration:none;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 li.pixo_search:hover {
	background:none;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 li.pixo_search form {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 li.pixo_search input {
	font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;}
#pixopoint_menu1 li.pixo_search input.pixo_inputsearch {
	width:100px;
	}
#pixopoint_menu1 li.pixo_right {
	float:right;
	}

PixoPoint Plugin Settings

After activating the PixoPoint menu plugin, you’ll have a new PixoPoint Menu option under your Settings menu. This is where you’ll find the controls for your menu as well as the slick drag-and-drop interface for organizing your menu bar.

Under the PixoPoint Settings tab, you’ll find a set of options similar to what you see to the left. Make your settings look exactly like these in order for your menu to work properly in the theme.

The Drop-down menu settings options (not shown in this screenshot) can be set to whatever you prefer for animation speed and effect.

Customizing the Menu

You’ll be able to customize the background color and hover color of the menu as well as the normal and hover color for the menu text. You will lose the ability to use any other menu styles however, as the CSS code above is coded to use the ’simple’ style menu.

The drop-down menu is styled at 150 pixels wide with a white background and a dark grey hover state. If you glance through the CSS code above, you’ll see reference to colo r #333333 which is the background hover color. #444444 is the normal text color, #CCCCCC is the border color, #FFFFFF is both the hover text color and the normal background color. You’ll also see multiple references to 150px. If you want a wider menu, make all instances of 150 wider, and conversely if you want a narrower menu make them smaller.

Adding a Second PixoPoint Menu

If you’ve ever wanted to use a main menu bar for your pages and use a second menu bar for your categories, here’s how you do it with the PixoPoint plugin.

First, make the changes shown above, but skip the part for the lower navigation bar. So you’ll be adding the PixoPoint menu hook into the top navigation bar in the header.php and adding the CSS code for that menu to the style.php file.

To make the lower navigation bar (below the header) work with the PixoPoint plugin, here’s what to do:

In the header.php file, find and highlight this code (last code in the file)

<?php if ($flex_nav_position == "below") { ?>
<div id="nav" style="clear:both;">
  <ul>
    <?php if ($flex_nav_home == "no") { ?>
    <?php } else { ?>
    <li><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><span>Home</span></a></li>
    <?php } ?>
    <?php echo preg_replace('@\<li([^>]*)>\<a([^>]*)>(.*?)\<\/a>@i', '<li$1><a$2><span>$3</span></a>', wp_list_pages('echo=0&orderby=name&exclude=&title_li=&depth=1')); ?>
  </ul>
  <div class="clearer"></div>
</div>
<?php } else { ?>
<?php } ?>

Now delete the entire selection. By doing this, you’re removing the conditional statement that controls the bottom nav bar and now we’ll replace it with the code to pull in the second PixoPoint menu:

<?php if (function_exists('pixopoint_menu')) {pixopoint_menu(2);}

Just paste that single line where the previous code was, save your header.php file and then go to the next step.

Adding in more CSS

You now need to copy all the CSS code that you pasted into your style.php file earlier, and paste it at the end of the file again, but after you paste the code, simply replace each reference to pixopoint_menu1 with pixopoint_menu2. You will then be able to style your second menu separate from your first, but it will default to being identical.

Here’s the new code if you prefer to copy and paste:

#pixopoint_menu2 {
	width:100%;
	height:33px;
	background:#<?php echo $flex_nav_barback; ?> url("images/navfhleft.png") repeat-x;
	background-position:50% 0;
	margin:0;}
#pixopoint_menu2 ul {
	width:100%;
	border:none;
	background:none;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	list-style:none;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 li {
	border:none;
	background:none;
	background:#<?php echo $flex_nav_barback; ?> url("images/navfhleft.png");
	color:#<?php echo $flex_nav_txtclr; ?>;
	line-height:33px;
	z-index:20;
	letter-spacing:0px;
	background:;
	font-weight:bold;
	font-size:12px;
	padding:0;
	margin:0 0px;
	;float:left;
	font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;
	position:relative;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 li:hover,#pixopoint_menu1 li.sfhover {
	background:#<?php echo $flex_nav_tabhvr; ?> url("images/navfhleft.png");
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 li a {
	border:none;
	background:none;
	text-decoration:none;
	display:block;
	padding:0 12px;
	color:#<?php echo $flex_nav_txtclr; ?>;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 li a:hover {
	border:none;
	background:none;
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#<?php echo $flex_nav_hvrcolor; ?>;
	background-position:100% -150px;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 ul ul {
	position:absolute;
	left:-999em;
	top:33px;
	width:150px;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 li:hover ul,#pixopoint_menu1 li.sfhover ul {
	left:auto;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 ul ul li a {
	padding:4px 10px;
	text-transform:normal;
	font-variant:normal;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 ul ul li {
	letter-spacing:0px;
	color:#444444;
	z-index:20;
	width:150px;
	font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;
	font-size:11px;
	font-weight:normal;
	font-style:normal;
	background:#FFFFFF;
	border-bottom:1px solid #cccccc;
	border-left:1px solid #cccccc;
	border-right:1px solid #cccccc;
	margin:0;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 ul ul li a {
	line-height:22px;
	color:#444444;
	text-decoration:none;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 ul ul li:hover a,#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li.sfhover a {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	text-decoration:none;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 ul ul li:hover li a,#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li.sfhover li a {
	color:#444444;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 ul ul li:hover li a:hover,#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li.sfhover li a:hover {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 ul ul li:hover,#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li.sfhover {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	background:#333333;  /*-- This is the drop-down menu hover background color  --*/
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 ul ul ul li {
	font-size:1em;}#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul ul, #pixopoint_menu1 ul ul ul ul {
	position:absolute;
	margin-left:-999em;
	top:0;
	width:150px;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 li li:hover ul,#pixopoint_menu1 li li.sfhover ul,#pixopoint_menu1 li li li:hover ul,#pixopoint_menu1 li li li.sfhover ul {
	margin-left:150px;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 ul ul li:hover li a,#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li.sfhover li a {
	text-decoration:none;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 ul ul li li:hover a,#pixopoint_menu1 ul ul li li.sfhover a {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	text-decoration:none;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 li.pixo_search:hover {
	background:none;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 li.pixo_search form {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 li.pixo_search input {
	font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;}
#pixopoint_menu2 li.pixo_search input.pixo_inputsearch {
	width:100px;
	}
#pixopoint_menu2 li.pixo_right {
	float:right;
	}

If you’re using Flexibility 2, there’s no need to save theme settings, but if you’re using FlexSqueeze, go into the theme settings and save them to rewrite the style sheet.

Turn on the second PixoPoint menu

The last step is to go back into your PixoPoint plugin settings and check the option box for “Add a second menu”. This will activate the lower menu and by default will show your categories unless you had modified your second menu prior to this. Now you have the same drag-and-drop function on your second menu as you have on your first.

That’s it! Now you have the ability to use multiple drop-down menus with FlexSqueeze or Flexibility 2, and also the excellent menu organization function built in by PixoPoint!

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If you are building affiliate sites with WordPress, FlexSqueeze reduces the task of creating a WordPress squeeze page to one-click. Once your page has been templated into a squeeze page, the process for getting all your sales page content into the page is quite simple.

I personally use Dreamweaver for all my HTML editing, as the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress is not really suited for creating css-based page layouts. If you have my FlexSqueeze theme, you have a file called ’sample-squeeze-content.html’ within the theme download. There is also an identical file in text format called ’sample-squeeze-content.txt’ that is set up without the CSS styles so you can copy and paste the entire document directly into your FlexSqueeze sales page. All the needed CSS styles are already built into FlexSqueeze theme.

You don’t have to use a high-end HTML editor like Dreamweaver to edit your squeeze page content. You can use any free or lower-end editor as well. If you open the HTML file in your editor, you will have a completely styled page with a TON of sample content that you can simply copy or cut and paste around your document to suit your needs. All the graphical elements are included, and the FlexSqueeze theme zip file also includes over 250 squeeze page graphics that you can easily grab and use in your page.

Once you have your page open in your HTML editor, I recommend you take a look at the HTML code to see how I commented the different page sections. I clearly indicate where to start and where to end when moving content elements around in your page. The sample squeeze page content itself gives clear instructions on how to create styled unordered lists, boxes, the various form styles, centered text, highlighted text, how to use the span tag and much more.

Here is a video showing how easy it is to copy and paste the included squeeze page content into your WordPress squeeze page. This example uses the text file format, but you can use the same process for copying your content from your HTML editor into your page.

The entire process of creating your squeeze page in WordPress takes just a couple of minutes. The longest part of the process will just be customizing your own page and writing your copy. FlexSqueeze offers extensive customization of your WordPress squeeze page from within the theme settings tab in your dashboard.

If you don’t use WordPress, but prefer to create your own HTML squeeze pages, you might be interested in the Squeeze Page Vector Pack. It includes the over 250 images that come with FlexSqueeze, but they come in your choice of Fireworks or Photoshop formats. You can easily edit any of the buttons, bursts, icons, squeeze page elements and squeeze page headers and create your own custom versions. The Vector Pack also includes the fully-styled HTML squeeze page and the text version as well, so you have all the tools you need to create HTML squeeze pages.

Whatever your preferred method of creating squeeze pages, FlexSqueeze and the Squeeze Page Vector Pack give you everything you need to very quickly create a professional squeeze page in WordPress or any other HTML editor.

Ok, now that that’s out of the way, let me tell you about this new affiliate marketing WordPress theme from the masters of blog design down at Unique Blog Design. I have to be a little bit biased towards my own theme obviously, but UBD has done a good job of creating an affiliate marketing theme with the features most bloggers need to quickly launch affiliate sites using our favorite blogging platform, WordPress. UBD is renown for their clean design and really great visuals, and Affiliate Theme is no different from their work for the likes of Shawn Collins, Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker and John Chow.

You can see their theme options panel here, which is a work of art in itself (note to self: make my options panel prettier). You can control your basic blog settings such as the background images, background color and page layout as well as some typography settings for your headlines and body fonts.

You also have the option of including a featured offer on your page (haven’t I seen that somewhere before?) and the use of a custom header graphic, logo or niche graphic (umm… Flexibility…). One feature that they do allow that I really should build into my theme is the ability to use custom action button text. I assume my users have enough HTML experience to edit their buttons, but that might be something to put on the “to-do” list.

Affiliates will undoubtedly use Affiliate Theme as a landing page generator, and that appears to be primary focus of Affiliate Theme. You can control all the meta data that is displayed such as the post date, author, categories, comments, etc. and these options are turned off by default. By turning these options on, you can return your Affiliate Theme back to a more recognizable “blog” appearance. Additional features include custom footer copyright text and link colors, footer page navigation and separate header/footer stat tracking codes.

Affiliate Theme comes in several versions, not unlike my FlexSqueeze theme. They have a single-use version, a multiple-use version which comes with 10 bonus niche header graphics and a Super Affiliate package which includes 30 niche header graphics and access to any new headers that are developed. The Super Affiliate package also gives you an affiliate commission of 50% if you sign up as an affiliate for the theme. If your subscriber list is at all affiliate-related you shouldn’t have any trouble making back the purchase price of Affiliate Theme in a very short time, especially if you have any size of subscriber list.

Affiliate marketers looking for 1) a nice-looking customizable WordPress theme 2) a quick way to create landing pages with WordPress or 3) a great affiliate commission rate on a premium WordPress theme should take a look at Affiliate Theme from Unique Blog Designs. You can read all about the theme and even download a testdrive at the Affiliate Theme website.