I’m in love with the newly crafted WordPress theme “twentyten.” The code is clean and the included functions are spot-on. So, I’ve decided to start making Child Themes based on twentyten. The one problem I would run into is in Internet Explorer 6. Now, I know that everyone hates it and that we all need to move on into the future.. but.. I have clients that I really need to continue support of that legacy browser. The problem that I encountered was with the drop down menu system. The code is so beautiful and perfect, but it just uses CSS… which IE6 can’t recognize. So I decided to write a plug in (with a bit of helpful advice from some awesome geniuses) that I can install whenever I make a child of twentyten and need it to support drop downs in IE6.

WordPress Plugin Page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twentyten-ie6-menus/
DOWNLOAD from WordPress: Twentyten IE6 Menus

Here is the plugin php file: (if you don’t want to use it as a plugin.. just steal the jQuery)

<?php
/**
 * Plugin Name: Twentyten IE6 Menus
 * Author: Sara Cannon
 * Author URI: http://sara-cannon.com
 * Description: Make the menu drop down in IE6 (if you care about that sort of thing)
 * Version: 1.0
 * License: GPL2
 */
function sara_twentyten_ie6_menus_enqueue() {
 wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' );
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'sara_twentyten_ie6_menus_enqueue' );

function sara_twentyten_ie6_menus_script() {
?>
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready( function($) {
 $('#access li').mouseover( function() {
 $(this).find('ul').show();
 });
 $('#access li').mouseleave( function() {
 $(this).find('ul').hide();
 });
 $('#access li ul').mouseleave( function() {
 $(this).hide();
 });
});
</script>
<![endif]-->
<?php
}
add_action( 'wp_footer', 'sara_twentyten_ie6_menus_script' );

Feel free to download and use and let me know if you encounter any bugs.
-sara cannon

This probably won’t mean anything to you, but I wanted to document this for my reference. Here are some of the sites I visited when initially researching how to make this plug in. There are probably many more that I hit up in my research later on but I just thought I’d throw this in here considering it is on the same subject lines.

http://www.jdmweb.com/resources/jquery_to_wordpress_plugin
http://www.devlounge.net/articles/using-javascript-and-css-with-your-wordpress-plugin
http://www.lost-in-code.com/platforms/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-build-a-thickbox-plugin/
http://www.noupe.com/tutorial/drop-down-menu-jquery-css.html
http://designreviver.com/tutorials/jquery-css-example-dropdown-menu/