How does CSS-TRICKS’S tabbed navigation work? Please help!

[fienixNYC]

Hello,

I’m new to the board and I’m writing in hopes of learning a bit more about how the tabbed-main navigation works on CSS-TRICKS.COM. There is some sort of "current page/category" set but I do not know how to re-create this.
I’ve tried to create dynamic menu highlighting (http://codex.wordpress.org/Dynamic_Menu_Highlighting) but alas have had no success after many failed attempts and tutorials (http://www.bomblesblog.com/wordpress-tu … amic-menu/) (http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-menu-tricks/).

I know Chris did a video of various WordPress tricks where he brushed upon –

Listing categories with a built-in function and building a tabbed navigation from them with “current tab” functionality.

Anyone know of where I can learn more about this and how to execute a similar menu in WordPress?

Thanks in advance! Look forward to chatting with you all and learning more about everyone and everything.

[fienixNYC]

Hi apostraphe,

Thanks for your help. You have pointed me in the right direction.
For now, I am making a static page because I know how to accomplish this sort of thing in HTML/CSS easily but WP is a bit more tricky. So I will work on sorting it out in WP and when its ready, I will re-configure my site to the WP site. Wish me luck and thanks again for the reply.

[TheDoc]

"fienixNYC" wrote:

For now, I am making a static page because I know how to accomplish this sort of thing in HTML/CSS easily but WP is a bit more tricky. So I will work on sorting it out in WP and when its ready, I will re-configure my site to the WP site. Wish me luck and thanks again for the reply.

That’s exactly how you should be doing it when first learning WP. Starting with a static site and then slowly replacing each element on the page is the best way to learn how everything functions.

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