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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insert element inside wp menu list item

I am not sure if it is clear from the title what I want to achieve here so let me try to clarify this. I wanna make use of Wordpress's menu system and need to adjust it to my needs, which means that ...
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Wp_Nav_Menu - Identify the last menu item

I'm have a horizontal top menu with a solid border on the right hand side. <?php wp_nav_menu( array('theme_location' => 'primary', 'container' => '', 'menu_class' => 'nav', 'fallback_cb' ...
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next_post_link() on custom menu structure

In a blog, I am using next_post_link() and prev_post_link() extensively on posts. I also have a number of pages that I show in a WP3 menu. They are organized in topics and sub-topics e.g. like so: ...
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Adding a Nav menu to post admin

i want insert a dropdown menu with list of menus, that i've created in nav-menu.php, to post-admin... For example, when i'm creating a post, i want insert a menu "Paul" in a post (only a post that i ...
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Add “parent” class to parent menu items

Is there a good way to add a class of "parent" to list items that have children using wp_nav_menu? I've found a couple of solutions online but non seem to have the desired effect.
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Adding custom text in items titles from wp_nav_menu()

I need to add something after each title of a specific menu called by wp_nav_menu() I tried add_filter('wp_nav_title', 'testing_stuff'); with function testing_stuff() { $item->title = ...
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Show just one level of child pages, wp_list_pages woe

I'm working on a site that has a fairly large page structure a few levels deep - in some sections there are a lot of pages. The basic setup is something like this... Parent Parent Parent -Child ...
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How to add meta box to backend menu page

I need to add a meta box to the backend menu page to list all the available post types, both the defaults & the custom ones. It will contain a list that contains a link to the archive pages only ...
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Filter out built-in wp_nav_menu classes but keep custom class

Im trying to remove / filter our all the classes from the wp_nav_menu, EXCEPT the custom ones that i insert (in the "CSS Classes (optional)" field) when creating the menu in the admin. I found a ...
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How to set classname for <li> tag in wordpress menu?

I am using. <?php wp_nav_menu($args); ?> for get menu from wordpress.it returns the menus with <ul> and <li> structure. In that i need to set class name for every <li> tag ...
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Show recent posts in menu?

I'm building a menu which contains categories. Is there a way to make each menu option show a list of recent posts in that category when you hover over it?
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simple expandable vertical menu, java script problem

I am trying to create a simple expandable menu in wordpress. Bellow you can see the javascript I am using (copy and mix from internet). <script type="text/javascript"> ...
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Remove li from wp_nav_menu

How can I remove the li from wp_nav_menu? I know I can remove ul but is it also possible to remove the li? I would want to do this on just one menu not all the menus on my site.
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wp_nav_menu always falls back to a menu

hey all, i'm writing an automated function that generates a menu from a function. it calls wp_nav_menu on each item from an array, because i want this to be dynamic. the problem is, no matter how i ...
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Hide Admin menus per role in Wordpress

I am trying to hide a certain amount of menus for a client. Right now I am using the following code and it is doing its job well, but it removes it for everyone as far as I can tell. As in all roles. ...
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How do I remove the link element from the current page in a wp_list_pages menu?

WP makes a list of links, and helpfully applies a current_page class, but I'm concerned with the accessibility issues of a link to the page you're on. Normally I'd swap the <a href etc with a ...
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How to Move the Author Metabox into the “Publish” metabox?

About a year ago I remember seeing a plugin or some code which allowed you to add an author dropdown menu to the post "publishing" metabox instead of it being on its own. I can't seem to find this ...
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I'm having a lot of trouble since upgrade to 3.0.1 with get_page_children() function

I use the get_page_children() function to create a sub_nav for a designer client I do work for. She uses the Spry Assets flyout JS that DreamWeaver creates, so I have to manually do the menus like ...
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How to make a custom menu based on a category or tag?

I'd like to have a sidebar widget that has my latests featured posts, which would be marked as a category or tag. Is there a way to do this with the new custom menus, and if not, is there a plug-in ...
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How to remove a metabox from menu editor page?

I am not sure if it is much different for any page but I am wondering how to remove a metabox from the appearance>menu page without having to go into the wordpress core files and remove it. Is there ...
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Bootstrap drop down menu with wp_nav_menu

I am trying to build a Wordpress theme with boostrap, but the nav menu is giving me some trouble. I would like the dropdown to work like boostraps dropdown, but I do not know how to do this. This is ...
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Find the Children of a Page then Echo it as a Bulleted List of Links (menu)

I am trying to check if a parent Page has children. If it has children I would like to echo the children as a bulleted list with links to each child (basically a menu). Right now I have the following ...
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Hide main div if wp_nav_menu is empty

I want to hide the div class "navmain2" if the menu is empty. See code below: <!-- Start main navigation --> <div class="navmain2"> <div id="logo"></div> ...
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Does loading of sub pages in menu cause load to the server?

I am working on a wp site where I need to manage 500s of child pages for a single page such as About menu can have more child pages need to manage those child pages as sub menu and I have more than 5 ...
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Convert WP Menu to a Drop Down for Mobile browser

I'm working on a wp project with responsive theme. I have single level nav menu at the top of the site, that I want to change to a Select Option tag for mobile browsers (small screens) with options ...
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Sidebar links for different pages

Hey all i am wondering what i need to add in order to have a different sidebar for a set page? I created a category for the page (called PatientEdu): And made sure the page was linked to the ...
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Get admin menu link

Is there any way I can get the menu link for admins? http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/edit_post_link Similarly to the edit_post_link() that returns the edit link for loggedin Admins I ...
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Create dropdown list post

I want to create a drop down list that will list all the posts in the category. I want the drop down list to appear on every post. So for example if I view a post that belongs to category Apples it ...
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Where do I add html code to the menu div?

When looking at header.php, I see the following line: <?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'primary' ) ); ?> That function is defined in nav-menu-template.php and generates the ...
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Search box as a menu item in the nav menu output by wp_nav_menu?

I am using the Twenty Twelve theme, and the following is the code it uses to register and display the menu. In functions.php: function twentytwelve_setup() { ... // This theme uses ...
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Should I use custom menu, C.P.T. or theme options, or something else for this?

On many sites ( particularly CMS style business sites) there are 2, 3 4 or sometimes more boxes usually containing a title, icon and some text. These appear under the header linking to strategic parts ...
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Select menu on browser resize

I have seen on some wordpress themes that if the browser width is less, the normal menu becomes a select menu. Can someone tell me how it is done? I know there is a plugin for that, but I want to ...
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Custom search filter causes menu and query_posts problems

I'm using a custom search filter (using my custom query var type), like so: function fteh_pre_get_posts( $query ){ if( isset( $query->query_vars['type'] ) ) $types = explode( ',', ...
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How to use logout function on custom menu link?

All I am using wordpress custom menu, and there is one menu as Logout. I know wordpress Logout function <?php echo wp_logout_url(); ?> But how can i use it in custom menu ?
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how do I add “home” menu item conditionally to custom menus?

Original question How do I get menu items using slug and not ID I need to get a specific menu, but I can't use ID, since the menu ID on my dev is not the same as on my staging and prod server. ...
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get_search_form() doesn't appear to take parameter into account

I am creating a menu manually and trying to include the search form. this is taken from the Wordpress Docs "Building a simple menu list" at ...
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Did upgrading from 3.3 to 3.3.1 introduce breaking changes in the menu navigation?

I have a WP 3.3.0 site running in production. (version.php says $wp_version = '3.3';) I have a main menu using WP's built-in functionality. I use wp_nav_menu(array( 'container_class' => ...
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wp_get_nav_menu_items how to exclude sub level menu items?

I have the following function to output a custom menu in select format for a responsive design I'm working on. It's working exactly how I want it to apart from I would need to exclude sub menu items. ...
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Open subcategories in submenu on click in primary menu

I am figuring out a way if we can manage the menu in such a way that when I click on the menu item in the first menu, the sub categories or links that i choose should be displayed in the secondary ...
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How to add Categories to the top menu of the website?

How can I add links to the categories (for example, Category-1) to the top menu of my WordPress blog? Only Pages appear here.
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Adding all sub-pages to the menu manager

Is there some simple way which would allow one to add a page to a menu (through the menu manager interface) and be able to define if the inclusion of this item should automatically add all subpages up ...
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How to count nav menu items?

I'm creating a custom walker for my nav menu. The goal is to split the menu in to columns like so: I can easily determine where I am in the list by looking at $item->menu_order. What I don't ...
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How to Create a Custom WordPress Navigation Menu with the Code?

Without using plugins, how to create a custom WordPress navigation menu with the code? I have Wordpress ver 3.2.1 and Buddypress ver 1.5.1 I would like to create a menu like this: click here I would ...
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Menus, but not by theme location

I'm trying to figure out how to display a menu that has been created, but without having to assign the menu to a theme location. From what I can tell, you have to assign a menu to a theme menu ...
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Custom menu deletes itself

I've set up a menu on one of my sites. The menu has ~30 items. Everything is fine, but at some point the menu crops itself and displays only the first 12 item. Does anyone have an idea why this is ...
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Bar separated navigation by extending Walker_Nav_Menu

I have the following menu in my header: <?php $args = array( 'menu' => 'Main Menu', 'container' => false, 'depth' => 1, 'items_wrap' => ...
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Implementing a tricky wordpress menu (nested categories + thumbnails)

I'm trying to make a layered wordpress menu, out of categories. Here's how it's going to look: I have no clue how to develop this, can't do it with get_posts (not sortable by parent/children), or ...
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Settings page above CPT page in admin section

I'm creating a plugin which generates a handfull or custom post types (CPT). I've create a top level menu in the admin left sidebar using add_menu_page(). I then added all CPTs to this menu using ...
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Replacing WordPress menu functionality with a plugin

I asked this earlier on StackOverflow.com before realizing there was a StackExchange specifically for WordPress. Here is the link to the old question (for moderator deletion): ...
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global menus made from master site's custom menus wpmu network

I'm looking into a way to have global menus across my network of blogs. Basically I am using wordpress as a CMS - the purpose of the network is actually to ringfence content. The sub blogs will be ...

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