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Adding WordPress 3.0 Menu support to your older site
I have come across this a few times when updating older sites to WordPress 3.0 that the fancy new menu system in WP3.0 doesn’t work. Fortunately, this is an easy fix. First off, you will be editing your functions.php file, so make a backup! Now, add this code to your funtions.php file: add_action( ‘init’, ‘register_my_menus’…
Having Multiple Footers in wordpress
Sometimes I like to have multiple footers for a site, or at least one for the homepage and one for the rest of the site. Fortunetly, wordpress makes this really easy to do. WordPress has a special template tag for including them into your theme: This function will accept only one parameter, a string, which…