So I have been thinking about a blog redesign for a little while. I am not really happy with the current design so I have been keeping my eye on things that I like and how I can incorporate it into my design.
One of the things that has been catching my eye was the descriptive text in the Wordpress menus of some sites. Some examples can be see in WooThemes in both the free BlogTheme and the commercial offering f0101 & Busy Bee. I also noticed Grid Focus a free Wordpress theme that has the effect that I was looking for. The biggest thing that I noticed was they rewrote the wp_page_menu() function. Some of them rewrote the dynamic classes but missed a few(WooThemes). I knew there had to be a better way so I kept searching. I ran across ThemeShaper and the post WordPress Menu Tricks and it looks like John Kristian took this a giant step further to include options to add categories and drop down menus and more flexibility with his post A Smarter Menu for WordPress BUT these solutions required an additional function to be added to the Wordpress template.
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