Posted by rotnme on November 30, 2009 at 4:15am
I am having a hell of a time with this. I have changed to the Pixture Reloaded theme and have enabled superfish. All is good except that in my primary menus I have a few that are place holders that have sub-menus below them. With a previous theme I enabled Special Menu Items and all was fine. Now I have links on my primary menu items that should not be and when I enable Special Menu Items the whole theme breaks. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
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I hope I'm not being dense, but I'm not clear on what you're saying.
Are you saying that your site has worked well until you switched to the "Pixture Reloaded" theme? And, the previous theme was using "Superfish" menuing system, which worked, but now you're using the Superfish-integrated menu feature of Pixture Reloaded, or not? What do you mean by "a few that are place holders that have sub-menus below them" in your primary menus? When you say "with the previous theme" is this in the context of the current site, or was it a different site as well? To what do the "links that should not be" point to? What does "the whole theme breaks" mean?
I find that when troubleshooting a clear problem description often helps me to solve the problem. The time spent re-wording the problem triggers "a-HA!" moments and I end up not asking the question, as it leads to the necessary corrections.
Prior to pixture I was using
Prior to pixture I was using abarre. With this I was using nice menus and special menu item. No superfish. Now I am using pixture and have enabled the superfish that comes with it. In my primary links I have menu items like our photos, if you hover on this the menu expands to different categories. The problem is the title should not be a clickable link, simple menu item allows this. If I enable the module it breaks the theme. The page is expanded and things are not as they should be. I can enable it and post a link so you can see what I mean. Here is the site, http://www.dcubedbuilders.com.
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Have you checked the issue
Have you checked the issue queues for your theme and/or the modules in question, to see if other have had the same problem?
I would guess that the javascript within your theme and the javascript within one or more of your enabled modules are competing with each other and creating some havoc.
Have you tried disabling the theme's superfish and going back to your module combination of nice menus + special menu item?
That I have and found one
That I have and found one http://drupal.org/node/463438, not much info. Someone also said the java script competing was the issue, "You will need to modify the Superfish js, the module removes the anchor tag which Superfish requires." I have no clue as to how to do this, I'm just a beginner. I tried disabling superfish and went back to nice/special and it blew it up even worse.
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Well, at this point I am 99%
Well, at this point I am 99% sure that fixing the issue while still allowing you to use this theme is going to require programming experience. Since you are a "beginner", as you say, you have three options:
A) Submit an issue to the theme's issue queue (I am pretty sure that the theme is re-writing the default menu output, which is breaking the javascript from your modules) and sit and wait and hope that the module maintainers take pity on you and fix the problem within the theme or offer you free support.
B) Change to a different theme. Since you are a beginner and not a programmer or highly drupal-savvy, I would suggest purchasing a supported theme from a theme developer such as Top Notch Themes (http://www.topnotchthemes.com/). Not only are you purchasing the graphics, HTML and CSS that go along with the theme, but you will also get dedicated support to help you implement and customize your theme.
C) Hire a freelance themer or programmer to fix the problem for you so that you can continue using this theme.
Step one: follow Sheena's advice
Step two, I do see issues with your css declarations, as there seems to be competing models for the menu-on-hover methods that don't seem to align. I also notice that Safari/WebKit greatly messes up the page's rendering, which further suggests a css declaration issue.
This might be time to completely rejigger the menu system. It isn't porting well between the respective modules' models.
Arghhhhhh, this is not fun.
Arghhhhhh, this is not fun. Just when I am enjoying doing this I get thrown a curveball and I'm hating it. Trying to figure out what to do at this point. Thanks all for your input/help.
Mark