[Updated for the CSSmb_46 template]

CSS Menu Builder is an amazing website that offers a free online tool to build your CSS menus.

You can choose among a number of different backgrounds and menu images, and you can select colors and gradients for the inactive, hover and active status of your menu items.

With this information the online tool generates a stylesheet and a single .png image, packs both files in a convenient .zip archive and lets you quickly download it.

Interesting, isn’t it? And now you can apply a CSS Menu Builder style to Menubar, using the CSSmb_46 Menubar template. Let’s see how to do it. (read more …)

This Menubar update brings you two new menu item types, Tag and TagList, and a new Depth field for the PageTree and CategoryTree types. To enable the Tag and TagList types with the Suckerfish, Superfish and iNove templates, you’ll need the last template version ().
The Tag type points to the tag archive specified in the [...]

With Menubar 4.5 you can optionally add icons to your menu items. You’ll need a new template like Suckerfish_45 to enable this feature, otherwise the Menubar admin page won’t display the field to enter the image URL.
I suggest you use PNG images of size 16×16 pixels (images of different size will be resized to 16×16) [...]

Menubar 4.4 improves the speed and performance of your site by moving all the menu data from a database table to a single serialized option.
This way Menubar doesn’t need multiple calls to the database in order to fetch all your menu items, and the menu generation is much more efficient.
To mention a real case, the [...]

Menubar 4.3 fixes a serious bug affecting the Add Menu Item and Edit Menu Item forms in Internet Explorer (IE6 and IE7).
Thanks to Fabrizio for the bug report!

As you know, Menubar adds configurable menus to your WordPress site.
But, what if your theme already features a native menu?
Don’t worry, you can use Menubar to enhance the native menu of a WordPress theme, adding the Menubar configurability to the existing menu.
All you need is a special Menubar template and instructions. The procedure is [...]

Q: How do I change the overall width of the Superfish Menubar template?
A: You have to edit the Superfish CSS file you are using. For instance if you are using ssf-green.css, open that file, locate the following rule and change the margin property as shown:

.ssf-green-wrap {
margin: 10px 0 0 0;
margin: 10px 10px 0 10px;
…
}

Then locate [...]

WordPress Menubar 4.2 adds support for the FORCE_SSL_ADMIN mode (defining FORCE_SSL_ADMIN in wp-config.php makes WordPress require HTTPS for the backend). Thanks to David for the bug report and the beta testing!
The 4.2 version also supports the new Superfish template. Superfish is a jQuery menu plugin, written by Joel Birch, that improves a Suckerfish menu in [...]

Menubar 4.1 is here! With this version I think that the new template structure introduced with version 4.0 is 99% completed. The new structure was necessary to allow an easier customization of templates, and to allow the deployment of new features.
The new template structure deserves a full documentation, and I’ll post it as soon as [...]

Menubar version 4.0 is ready to be downloaded from the .
What’s new in this version? A few improvements in the internal structure, that explain the new major version number, and a few on the user side.
Internally, Ajax is used in the Add Menu Item and Edit Menu Item forms, and a new column is [...]