Navigation Menu is a theme feature introduced with Version 3.0. WordPress includes an easy to use mechanism for introducing customised navigation menus into a theme. In order to incorporate menu support into your theme, you need to add a few code segments to your theme files.
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Any official way to create an admin theme?
I was wondering whether there's a common way of customising the aspect of the admin panel.
I know you can play with the css and js files but what I was looking for is some kind of "admin theme" like ...
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Highlight parent menu item when child is not in menu
I want to highlight the parent of a child page in the menu when the child page itself is not in the menu.
I know this would work if you add the child as a sub page but that isn't the case.
Any ...
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Call custom field into menu item
I have a navigation menu in Wordpress. I would like it to check if the page has a custom field of "menu_icon" and if it does, add that custom field into the menu item it corresponds to. I'm sure this ...
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fall back for main menu?
I am new to WordPress, and am still trying to learn the in's and out's in much respect to this well known CMS.
I am wanting to know, if I should or must have a Fallback for main menu?
This is what I ...
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How to get IDs for objects in menu branch?
Is it possible to print content of all menu items, when displaying menu (or branch of menu as in question about displaying menu branches) ?
Once I click on About Us I wish for new page to display ...
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How to avoid wp_nav_menu() ID conflict?
How do I avoid ID conflicts if I use the same menu TWICE on one page.
FIRST
wp_nav_menu( array( 'sort_column' => 'menu_order',
'theme_location'=>'menu', 'menu_class'=>'menu', ...
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Is there a way to limit the number of top level items in a custom menu?
I wish to implement the wordpress 3 menus API in a client site, but the designs has restraint on the width of the top level menu items. How can I be sure the client won't exceed that limit?
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Custom Post Types posts as submenus in Nav Menu
I have created a Custom Post Type called "Collections".
I'd like to have in the Nav Menu (no custom menus involved) a menu item 'Collections' that links to the index page of Collections Custom Post ...
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Taxonomy menu with post count and multiple parents
I'm using WordPress 3.1.3 and trying to make a "product" menu with post count in each category. Like this:
New Cars (4)
BMW (2)
Ford (1)
Nissan (1)
Used Cars (10)
BMW (3)
Ford (1)
Nissan (6)
...
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wp_nav_menu sort order?
Hey Guys,
I'm trying to build a right aligned, wrapping capable wp_nav_menu powered menu.
Is there a way to have it rendered backwards, so that float: right; would work and not mess up the order?
I ...
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Nav Menu meta failing to import
I'm the author of the Nav Menu Roles plugin that lets you display/hide menu items based on the user's role. It has come to my attention that the menu item meta does not import when using the regular ...
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How do I remove UL on wp_nav_menu?
I search on this site and found many answers for this question. Most of them is not working on my theme.
Here is a one solution I found and it's working according to my need.
function ...
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Automatically remove trashed pages from nav menu
As it is now, when a page that is in the nav menu is trashed, it still stays in the menu until manually remove via the nav menu editor. Is it possible to have trashed pages removed automatically?
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WordPress Menu Custom Walker Class
We are using a jQuery UI accordian to render a menu in the sidebar. We've already written the markup and javascript and I am just trying to get the wp_nav_menu to output the same markup we've already ...
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Add a .last class to the last <li> in each ul.sub-menu
I've seen a lot of code on how to add a first and last class to a WordPress menu, but in my instance I would like to add a last class to the last li in the sub-menu that WP generates. Here's what I ...
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Show child pages by menu order using Superfish Dropdown menu?
I'm using the superfish dropdown menu to create a drop down menu.
It's created the menu fine showing all the parent pages with the child pages in drop down's below.
The only problem I have is that ...
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Show a WP 3.0 Custom Menu in an HTML Select with Auto-Navigation?
As part of a theme for a client, I want to be able to show a custom menu (defined via the admin) in a select box that automatically changes pages after changing the selection. Is there a plugin (or a ...
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wp_nav_menu: show menu only if one exists, otherwise show nothing
I'm trying to use wp_nav_menu to only display a menu if one exists, otherwise, display nothing.
If I delete the menu, it will output a list of the pages.
My functions.php file contains:
if ...
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WordPress built in breadcrumb trail menu?
Looking for a breadcrumb menu that can be called (preferably from a sidebar widget in header.php) that lists...
Home > Parent Post/Page > Current Page/Post
or alternately...
Home > Parent Category ...
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How to display wp_nav_menu() conditionally only when not on a 404 page?
I made a custom design for my site. On my header i put my navigation so everytime i call the header the navigation will be called to, so that i would not be calling it all the time.
But now i have a ...
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wordpress nav menu using twitter bootstrap
I'm using twitter bootstrap in my theme.
I'm trying to use bootstrap menu in my theme. But it use custom attributes like data-toggle.
Here is the full code.
<ul class="nav">
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Exclude one item from wp_list_pages( $args );
I have a menu that is currently shown with wp_list_pages( 'title_li=' );
This shows all the sub pages from all the pages in the menu.
I want to exclude a page with id 56 from displaying its sub ...
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Query menu_order custom post types
I added 'supports' => 'page-attributes' to my custom post type, and now i have the meta box for page ordering.
When i use the argument 'sort_column' => 'menu_order' with get_pages() on my ...
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Overwriting Core Wordpress Functions with Plugins
Is there a way to overwrite a core function is the Wordpress core using a plugin? I don't need to inject code, I need to replace the function entirely with a re-written version.
The specific function ...
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wp_nav_menu() custom container and container_id
So today I started work on my first Wordpress theme and so far it's been a lot of fun. However, I have had difficulty in getting wp_nav_menu() to do what I want.
Here's what I want:
<nav ...
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Use wp_nav_menu() to display a Menu from another site in a Network install?
So I'm basically upgrading an older site and I need to make it multisite as well for some blogs and such.
I'd like to have the main site Menu(created from the admin) available on the other sites in ...
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show current navigation path from menu
I want something like this
Home > Products > Steel > Nails
This information should come from the menu structure! I installed Breadcrumb NavXT but it seems that it only takes the path I defined (this ...
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How to apply a class to the second word in menu list item?
I want to apply a class to a word in my menu. For example, say I have a list item in my menu called "My Item". I would like to apply a class to the word "Item" so that I can style it anyway I want.
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Show specific menu item from wp_nav_menu based on id
I have a wp_nav_menu "Main Menu" such as the following:
Top Level (#menu-item-1)
Sub Item
Sub Item
Top Level (#menu-item-2)
Sub Item
Top Level (#menu-item-3)
Sub Item A
Sub Item B
Sub Item a.1
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remove last separator?
using;
$args = array( 'menu' => 'mainmenu', 'container' => 'ul', 'menu_class' => 'span-10 clearfix', 'after'=>'/');
wp_nav_menu($args);
which gives me;
london/munich/artists/fairs & ...
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How to highlight the right item in the navbar
In my site i have a navbar which is created by using the new feature of wordpress 3 - "the menus ".In my site this navbar conatins both categories and pages.
When I'm in a single post / sub-page , ...
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One site, 2 distinct sections: two different top nav menus?
I have a site that is in two distinct halves. I'd like the same template to apply to the whole site (from a look & feel perspective), but for each 'half' of the site to have its own top nav menu. ...
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Why is my menu order not working with wp_nav_menu?
I have a custom menu using the new Menu System but it is not returning in the correct order. I have no idea what order its in - its not alphabetical, or by date, or by any pattern I can see.
The link ...
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Can you have different menus and theme on a per-page basis?
I am planning to have a new site created using WP pages. My company is focusing on 3 or 4 discrete areas and one of those I want to promote in particular, with its own set of pages. Ideally it would ...
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Remove unusable metaboxes in nav menu management screen
When you visit wp-admin/nav-menus.php and there is no menu you get a set of metaboxes you cannot use. The only thing they do is drawing attention away from the Create Menu dialog.
I want to hide ...
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How is custom menu hierarchy output handled?
I'm looking to pass custom nav_menus through an RSS feed so I can grab them on other sites to create the same custom menu on multiple sites.
What I can't figure out by looking through the database is ...
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Custom metabox for menu administration page?
I've been googleing around but failed to find a solution for my need.
I'm using wordpress 3.0 and TwentyEleven theme as default pack.
In the Dashboard -> appearance->menus that allow user can ...
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Nav menu separators?
Anyone know of a plugin that can, or have an idea how to, allow a user to drop in separators/dividers between certain nav menu items?
Google only seems to bring up rookie CSS tips for first/last ...
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How to add current, parent, and ancestor menu item IDs to body_class()?
(just got reccommended to post this over here from stack overflow...)
I am just starting with Wordpress (defecting from Joomla)- having a bit of difficulty getting started.
One thing I am trying to ...
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wp_nav_menu() customized
<div class="example">
<h1>Menu</h1>
<ul>
<li>sub-menu</li>
<li>sub-menu</li>
<li>sub-menu</li>
</ul>
</div><!-- ...
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Allow html tags in WordPress Custom Menus Description Field
I added descriptions to my menus using this post, Menu items description?. However I need to be able to use html tags and WordPress is stripping them out. Can anyone help?
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Move admin menu at the end
I installed a plugin for my users in WPMU and I want to make it appear at the end of the admin menu ....
I tried this but the menu never appears at the end:
function custom_menu_order($menu_ord) {
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Taxonomy slug by term ID
I'm trying to modify wp_nav_menu to display term thumbnails. To get those thumbnails I need term ID and taxonomy slug: $thumbnailimg = get_the_term_thumbnail($term_id, '$taxonomy', 'medium');
I ...
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How can I get my Custom Post Types to appear in nav-menus.php 'Menu'?
I am having a bit of a problem with my custom post types. I can create them fine in my theme, but I cannot get them to show up in the 'Menu' screen ... at least not by default.
I have tried adding ...
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How to implement separate sub-menus?
I want to implement two menus that work like this:
Cars
*Animals <-selected
Recipes
--
Bear
*Dog <-selected
Cat
So the top menu in the main menu, the the menu below is the ...
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Customize the menu by adding items
I need to display a simple menu like this:
<nav class="main">
<a href="/" class="home">
<span class="logo"></span>
<span class="company-name">My ...
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Highlighting current item of custom post types' sub pages, listed by wp_list_pages
The below code is for listing the custom post types itself and its children in the sidebar.
The code works great but does not highlight the sub pages.
In functions.php:
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Extend walker class with custom post types
I'm using the walker class below, but I can't make it work with custom posts.
class Zwp_Walker_Nav_Menu_Dynamic extends Walker_Nav_Menu {
function end_el(&$output, $item, $depth) {
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Creating new dynamic menu including BP links
Perhaps I have missed something fundamental, but I am attempting to include the various dynamic menu items included with BuddyPress and other add-ons to my primary drop-down menu.
For example, the ...
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How do I create a magazine type menu - sub-menu setup using wp_nav_menu and child of twentyten? [closed]
I'm trying to create a menu and submenu with a child theme of twentyten, similar to this at the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/ where when the site is first opened, it displays a set of childs, and ...
