Starting WordPress, Question About Customizing Theme

I am start my first wordpress and I found this theme that I like. The theme is a bit cluttered and I want to remove and change around most of the pages in order to make it look a bit better. I am not sure if this would be a custom widget or whatever.

Since I am having alot of categories I am looking for something such as a drop down menu that can be seen here: hxxp://www.associatedcontent.com/automotive/?cat=27 . If you scroll over the all categories it will show you all the categories. Some other sites have this as well but i like this one a bit better.


These are the most big ones on my to do list. I am not that knowledgeable in coding. Would this be something a person without much coding can do? If not, how much approximately would this cost to hire a person to do this?

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If you don't know how to code at all, it would be pretty hard. You can pay someone between $5-$100 to do it, depending on how much you need it changed.

If you don't know coding,you should hire someone on freelancer,etc to do the job.

Thank you MrSofteeMan and StoneCold316

If you know PHP it's pretty easy. You can even make that navbar a widgetized custom sidebar and use CSS to handle the display of the categories. There's more than a way to skin a cat. If you're not familiar with PHP or the WP API might end up giving you big headaches though.

madoctopus said:

If you know PHP it's pretty easy. You can even make that navbar a widgetized custom sidebar and use CSS to handle the display of the categories. There's more than a way to skin a cat. If you're not familiar with PHP or the WP API might end up giving you big headaches though.

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I would like to have a drop down category in the header just like the example on the website. I don't have that much handle on coding, I know some coding but I don't feel like wasting too much time. I will hire someone to do this, about how much am I looking at ($)?

gjrb29 said:

I would like to have a drop down category in the header just like the example on the website. I don't have that much handle on coding, I know some coding but I don't feel like wasting too much time. I will hire someone to do this, about how much am I looking at ($)?

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Anything between $20 and $100. Somebody who knows what he is doing can do it in 1 hour or so.

Thank you madoctopus for your reply.

A hand full of people say this is simple. I figuring that with some reading, I can 'maybe' figure out how to change the pages so they wont look so crowd. I have tried 'Google' but maybe i'm typing in the wrong keywords. Could anyone help me in discovering the information needed so I can 'maybe' attempt this before hiring someone.

Thank In Advance

just go to appearance>menus then drag and drop categories, pages, or custom links. you can nest things to make them 'drop down'

then you just need a theme that plays nicely with menus, which tons of the free ones do right out of the box.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_nav_menu

You have to call that function in header.php where you want the menu to appear.

In functions.php you have to call this function - http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_nav_menu - to register your menu so you can edit it in the WP admin interface.

Also join IRC channel #wordpress on freenode.org server and ask there whatever questions you have.