harknell

The AWSOM Archive (formerly called AWSOM Drop Down Archive) is a plugin designed to add a Drop Down or other type of archive selector on your Index and individual Posts pages. This plugin by default requires no theme editing to work and appears right after activating your plugin. It makes it easy for your readers to immediately select a new post to view. This is especially good for Webcomic or Art sites and replicates the archive that is on the Megatokyo.com website. If you want a more customized archive you may enter custom options for CSS, name, archive parameters, and add custom locations all from the admin options area. The newest version of the plugin now allows you to place the archive in a post or page by using the code %%awsomarchive%%, so now you can place the archive anywhere you want. Plugin Now Features Full XHTML compliance.
Part of the www.AWSOM.org series of WordPress Plugins developed by Harknell
Additional code from the plugin Archives for a category: Copyright 2007, 2008, 2009 Rob Schlüter.

AWSOM Drop Down Archive

The AWSOM Archive (formerly called AWSOM Drop Down Archive) is a plugin designed to add a Drop Down or other type of archive on your Index and individ …

metaloha

Use a shortcode to define a drop-down form field, and shortcodes to define blocks of content that will be displayed when a specific entry is selected.
<h3>Usage</h3>
To add a content dropdown to a post, you can either select the Content Dropdown icon from the TinyMCE editor, or enter the shortcodes manually.
<pre><code>[dropdown name="controlName" class="customClassName"] - both `name` and `class` are optional; `name` will default to `dropdown-content`
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>the <code>name</code> is used to identify which content sections are targetted by this dropdown; if there is only one dropdown on a page, it is optional; if there are multiple dropdowns on a page, each will need a unique name</li>
<li><code>class</code> can be a space-separated list of class names, or just a single class name</li>
<li>
only <code>[dropdown-option]</code> shortcodes may be inside this shortcode
[dropdown-option value=”someValue”] – the <code>value</code> field is technically optional, but is required if this option is meant to make a content block visible
</li>
<li>
must be inside a <code>[dropdown]</code> shortcode
[dropdown-content name=”controlName” value=”someValue”] – if the <code>name</code> matches a dropdown name, and the <code>value</code> matches the value of an option within that dropdown, then this content will be displayed when that specific option is selected.
</li>
<li>
again, <code>name</code> is technically optional, but must match a <code>[dropdown]</code> name (also defaults to <code>dropdown-content</code>)
</li>
<li><code>value</code> is required, and must match a <code>value</code> for a <code>[dropdown-option]</code></li>
<li>can be anywhere on the page</li>
</ul>
<h3>Example</h3>
Copy and paste the following content to see the plugin in action
[dropdown] 
[dropdown-option]Select one…[/dropdown-option] 
[dropdown-option value=”option1″]First option[/dropdown-option] 
[dropdown-option value=”option2″]Second Option[/dropdown-option] 
[/dropdown]
[dropdown-content value=”option1″]Content for the first option.[/dropdown-content]
[dropdown-content value=”option2″]Content for the second option.[/dropdown-content]
Those were all using the default values from the plugin. Let’s change it up a bit.
[dropdown] 
[dropdown-option value=”option1″]The First[/dropdown-option] 
[dropdown-option value=”option2″ default=true]The Second[/dropdown-option] 
[dropdown-option value=”option3″]The Third[/dropdown-option] 
[/dropdown]
You’ll notice below that the second option will be displayed by default for you.
[dropdown-content value=”option1″]Some different content for the second first option.[/dropdown-content]
[dropdown-content value=”option2″]Some different content for the second second option.[/dropdown-content]
[dropdown-content value=”option3″]Some different content for the second third option.[/dropdown-content]

Dropdown Content

Allows different content to be displayed based on the value of an author-defined drop-down box.

AWSOM Drop Down Archive vs Dropdown Content