Cannot seem to replace the native menu with the menu I created, so 2 menus appear

Question

Helping a friend w/ a navigational menu on a WordPress PHP site -- called it Primary Menu. I'm trying to override the default navigational menu with the jquery-mega-menu I created in the widget area I created.

Here's the problem:

I'd like to have the menu in the widget area I created, "my_mega_menu", which calls the Primary Menu. But the inkthemes_nav() function adds the Primary Menu also. When I comment this out in header.php, it shows only the menu I want it to show, but it breaks the functionality of the menu; the drop-downs don't drop down into the sub-menus.

Does anybody know if it's possible to eliminate the inkthemes_nav native menu, but maintain the functionality of the jquery-mega-menu I created?

Here's the code in my header.php:

<div class="menu-bar">
<div id="MainNav">                  
<a href="#" class="mobile_nav closed"><?php _e('Pages Navigation Menu', 'colorway'); 
?><span></span></a>    

<?php inkthemes_nav(); ?>            
<?php /* Widgetized sidebar */
if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('my_mega_menu') ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>            
</div>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
</div>
<!--End MenuBar-->
</div>

Thanks for any guidance anybody can offer to point me in the proper direction (what I should be looking for, what to do, etc.)!

Answer 1

The Problem here is that you call your function inkthemes_nav() and also call the sidebar with the widget for the menu in it dynamic_sidebar('my_mega_menu').

So you have two solutions:

• Skip the Function, just calling it from the Widget inside your sidebar
• Skip the Sidebar, and let the Function handle the Menu

As I suppose you have to use your Menu in a Widget due to the MegaMenu Plugin (please correct me if I am wrong), I'd suggest the first Solution.

You do not have to have an extra Function for your Menu - registering and putting it into the Widget does the Trick for you.

Answer 2

it seems that you're calling a sidebar. Is your menu within the sidebar, as a widget? Where is your new menu registered? You need to register a menu in function.php (see here) and then call in it your theme