Help with Menu Development
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Hi, so I’ve recently started at this company and a few months before I started the company got a web development company to create a new website. Apparently it was a really bad experience for the company and they no longer want to deal with the company, so have asked me to work on the site.
The site was built on WordPress but it’s a bespoke theme, created specially for the company. This has caused a number of issues (for one we can no longer update WordPress for fear it will turn the site into soup!)
I’m a novice when it comes to development and I can sort of stumble my way through most things HTML and PHP but there are some areas that really do my head in. In this case it’s the main menu on the site.
If you hover over “Industry” a great whopping drop down menu appears featuring images with roll over effects. This isn’t terrible in and of itself, I’ve seen this sort of menu used to pretty good effect on sites like Fisher & Paykell, but in this case it takes up the whole width of the screen and worse still, it pushes the content of the page down instead of just appearing over the top.
Once you scroll to a certain point the menu no longer pushes the content down (although it still pushes the blue “secondary menu” down.) I’d like it for the main menu drop down to come down over everything and not push anything down, if possible.
Can anyone recommend a way of turning the menu back to the regular drop down menu, with just each title under the next, which doesn’t push the content down with it?
The current menu seems to be set up in CSS. I’ve been using Chrome to Inspect the elements of the menu in order to work out which CSS styles are in place. I don’t know of an easier way (as I said, novice)
Here’s the CSS from the “Main.css” file:
Any help of useful suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Peter
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That theme is what I’d call “Overburdened with Gee Whiz”.
The Theme was built using Visual Composer and those menus where made from a plugin called ‘Menu Image’. Just shutting down the menu image plugin may help with the menu issue or help you understand that better. The Visual Composer Plugin may have been left in place. Else it’s only $35.00 or so if you need it.
The Scrolling top is run by ‘WP Front Scroll Top’.
Do a Good backup!!! Files and Database. Very Important!!! If you don’t have a backup plugin then UpDraftPlus will do the trick… install that.
That fancy theme thing is using Javascript for some of that ‘menu’ stuff. I’m hoping you’ll be able to tame most of that down with the Health Check/Twenty Seventeen version without breaking the expensive theme. Of course, you can reverse the damage you might create by restoring backups.
Once you’ve made content tweaks and such then just take your time and look up things as you go or ask if you have specific questions.
One more note… You might find a theme in the repository that comes close to what you have already. It might be good to find an out of the box theme that comes close then use the Visual Composer and those other two plugins if you need them to tweak the rest.
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