Comments on: Dropdown Menus in WordPress, an SEO and Accessibility No-No

by: BJ

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:29:28 +0000

I can’t currently link to an example since this article, and the comments it generated, finally convinced my clients it’s a good idea to turn it off.

It turns on and off in the newest version of wordpress from admin/presentation/widgets/category widget active/ edit category widget

So if you want an example, turn it on in your own blog, then look at source code. But then I suggest you turn it back off.

by: jk

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:53:28 +0000

Hi BJ, out of curiosity, can you link to an example? Also, where is this turned on in WP admin (I don’t see it in mine).

Thanks!

by: BJ

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:51:00 +0000

Um, Carrie, you’d have to HACK CORE to do that. We’re talking about WordPress GENERATED category dropdown, which can be turned on from admin.

Geez, seems a bunch of people are anxious to comment about what the post isn’t about. *sigh*

by: Carrie

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:13:44 +0000

Froma usability standpoint, the drop-down menu approach make s lot more sense if you have say, over 20 categories, and do not need them to be the center of attention. If you include a noscript version, then search engines, nerds, and bilnd people will all be happy too.

by: BJ

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:01:49 +0000

LOL! Michael Anderson, apparently you didn’t read the part where it says some people have javascript turned off. You should take a look at your page that way sometime. Did you know that SE spiders don’t parse javascript??? So they come to your so-called SEO page and say, “Nothing to see here, move along.”