So You Want To Make A Menu?

With the cool new WordPress 3.0 coming out sometime in the future, you may be interested in updating the way you make you're menus in your themes. Then you think, but what about people that haven't yet updated to WordPress 3.0, the menu won't show. There's an easy way to make a fallback to show the menu the old fashioned way.

Here's what you have to do

	<?php if (function_exists( 'wp_nav_menu' )) {	
		wp_nav_menu( array('menu' => 'MENU NAME'  ));
	} else {
	?>

	<ul>
		<li class="page_item"><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/" title="Home">Home</a></li>					
		<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=2&title_li='); ?>
	</ul>
<?php } ?>			

It's as simple as that. Just check for whether or not the wp_nav_menu function exists. If it does, then show that menu. If not, then show the wp_list_pages or wp_list_categories whichever one you may be using in your theme.

Let me know if you have any questions below.