Tidak ramai yang mengetahui asal usul  Custom Menu yang sedia ada pada theme Twenty Ten yang merupakan theme default bagi WordPress 3.0. Mari kita imbas kembali bagaimana rupanya Custom Menu dalam Twenty Ten dan cara penggunaannya.

Bagaimana? Sudah puas menonton. Dalam video itu bukan muka saya. Berbalik kepada asal usul Custom Menu seperti yang ditunjukkan dalam video, function Custom Menu pada awalnya diasaskan oleh Woo Themes yang telah diapply ke dalam WooThemes Framework v2 sebelum kewujudan WordPress 3.0 seperti ditunjukkan dalam gambar di bawah.[1][2]

“With the custom nav, you can easily mix and match categories and pages, and even add custom menu items into the mix. You can add your own structure to the menu by arranging the menu items via our drag and drop interface, and also add dropdowns or sub-navigations to each menu point. You can have as many levels as you want although this is usually limited to 3-4 levels by CSS in the theme itself.” [1]

WooThemes Framework dipaparkan seperti video di bawah. Lihatlah perbezaan fungsi Custom Menu WooThemes yang kemudiannya diapply ke dalam WordPress 3.0.

Keseluruhannya, WooThemes satu-satunya pengeluar theme yang terkenal dengan functionality. Maka, tidak hairanlah fungsi Custom Menu keluaran WooThemes menjadi fungsi utama dalam WordPress 3.0.

“Jeff has already begun working with Ryan Boren (one of WordPress’ lead developers) on porting the WooNav into “patch form”, which will then in turn be submitted to the core of WordPress. Feature freeze for WordPress 3.0 is this week and we’re hoping to have ported the WooNav to the core ASAP, so that the community may start discussing the functionality, after which we will continue to work with the WP developers and the community on improving and finalizing the functionality for WP 3.0.

“Unfortunately” this impacts our users, since these developments mean we have to delay the integration & roll-out of the WooNav to all our themes. Whilst the implementation thereof will stay 99% the same, we don’t want to potentially duplicate work for ourselves and have decided to wrap-up the porting & development of the WooNav into core WP first, before integrating it with all of our themes.

You can however rest assured that by the time WordPress 3.0 hits your web browser, we’ll have included support for this amazing functionality in all of our themes. So this new awesomeness from the two W’s is not far off and all WooThemes will soon be able to enjoy it in all of its glory.” [2]

Citations:
[1] http://www.woothemes.com/2010/01/the-awesome-custom-woo-navigation/

[2] http://www.woothemes.com/2010/02/woonav-integrated-in-wp-30/