Questions tagged [menus]
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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Menu items description? Custom Walker for wp_nav_menu()
Normal Wordpress Menu looks like:
Home | Blog | About us | Contact
But I've seen many pages with descriptions under these links:
Home Page | Our Blogs | About us
| Contact
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Display a portion/ branch of the menu tree using wp_nav_menu()
I have a menu defined in WP Admin that looks like this:
I want to be able to display all the child links on the sidebar whenever I am at a parent page. For example, if the user is on my "About Us" ...
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Error: Declaration of MyClass::start_lvl() should be compatible with that of Walker_Nav_Menu::start_lvl()
I'm currently working on a WordPress site and whenever in the admin I go the Appearance > Menus page I get the following error:
ErrorException: Runtime Notice: Declaration of Walker_Nav_Menu_Edit::...
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How to add a custom field in the advanced menu properties?
Is it possible to add a custom field to menu items?
What I want to do is be able to add a field for 'French Navigation Label' and a 'French Title Attribute' in the wp menu interface.
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Any docs for wp_nav_menu's "items_wrap" argument?
I'm using wp_nav_menu and am trying to create custom output for the sub-level drop downs. I came across the "items_wrap" argument but there's really not much information as to what it is, how it ...
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Adding an Arbitrary Link to the Admin Menu?
Is there a way to add a arbitrary hyperlink to the WordPress admin menu (I mean the menu on the left when you log into the admin dashboard)? For example, can one add a link to Google?
In my ...
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Add child pages automatically to nav menu
I have built a custom menu in Wordpress that contains links to posts and pages. I am adding it to my header using this line of code:
<?php
wp_nav_menu(
array(
'theme_location' => '...
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How to use logout function on custom menu link?
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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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Programmatically add a Navigation menu and menu items
Through API functions, I want to define a new Navigation menu, select it in the current theme, and then insert a few Pages as menu items. This is to be done for instance on a theme activation.
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Changing the Order of Admin Menu Sections?
I am getting a bit frustrated over here after having spent a few hours trying to accomplish this fairly simple task without any luck.
Essentially I have 5 custom post types which I created and all I ...
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How to Hard Code Custom menu items
Is there any way that i can hard code the custom menu items when first theme installed? I am creating a theme which will automatically make some common pages when installed. So I need to know if I can ...
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How to var_dump nav menu items from anywhere?
I wanna preview all the fields that the nav menu $item array holds. Is there a function to fetch it from anywhere and place it inside var_dump?
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add_menu_page() with different name for first submenu item
The add_menu_page documentation says to pass the menu title as the second parameter:
add_menu_page('Page Title', 'Menu Title', ...);
When adding more pages later via add_submenu_page, the main page ...
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Add 'has_children' class to parent li when modifying Walker_Nav_Menu
I'm writing a customised walker class for wp_nav_menu and want to be able to specify if an li contains a submenu. So I want my markup to be:
<li class="has_children [other-wordpress-classes]">
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How to get current-menu-item title as variable?
Is possible to get current-menu-item as a php variable?
I'm listing the category museums via the menu item 'museums we support' so i'd like the get 'museums we support' bit and display it somewhere?
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wp_delete_auto_drafts() deletes links in menus
Since yesterday the wp_scheduled_auto_draft_delete cron job somehow deletes all page entries from our menus. All entries in the table wp_postmeta with meta_key = '_menu_item_object' and meta_value = '...
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Dynamically link to the latest post or simulate request of specific post in page template
I want to have a link in the wordpress menu pointing to the latest post of a specific category.
Because I am not able put a dynamic URL in the wordpress menu, my approach was to put a page with a ...
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Create a formatted table-like menu
I've just put the site up a couple weeks ago and adding some more things to it for my friend however there's got to be an easier way to lay content out over wordpress. I've having a hard time with it ...
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Add column to pages table
Hey all i am trying to find the section within the edit.php page where it populates the table with all my current pages. What i want to do is add another colum to the table in order to launch a side ...
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How to Use the Function is_user_logged_in To Display Different Menus?
So, I want to create different menus for people who are logged in or not.
I got a reply that i should use a function
if (is_user_logged_in()) {
wp_name_menu(array('theme_location' => '...
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Customizing Only a Specific Menu using the "wp_nav_menu_items" Hook?
Thanks to some help on here, I've managed to add a custom search box to my main menu... by adding this to my theme's functions.php
add_filter('wp_nav_menu_items','search_box_function');
function ...
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How make top level menu item not have link, but have sub-menus that are linked?
I'm building a horizontal menu and some of the entries on that menu will have dropdowns (sub-menus), and some won't. Those that have sub-menus are not actually pages. They're just meant to be guides ...
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Wordpress default menu in database
There are 3 menus in my wordpress(3.5) now.
Main menu (default from wp)
Footer menu (default from wp)
Test menu
Now I have kept test menu as default.
Where does Wordpress store this thing?
I want ...
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Dynamically exclude menu items from wp_nav_menu
I tried looking for info about how to exclude/remove nav menu items from custom menus, and the only thread I found did not have any answers that were useful to me.
1. Background:
I put together a ...
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WordPress Settings API, Implementing Tabs On Custom Menu Page
I've been following the WordPress Settings API tutorial series of this guy:
http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/theme-development/the-complete-guide-to-the-wordpress-settings-api-part-1/
So far, I've ...
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start_lvl Ignored in Custom walker_nav_menu
This is my first project involving WordPress and I've got stuck trying to create a custom walker for a footer menu.
I basically want to change the menu from the <ul> <li></li> </...
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register_nav_menus() won't register menus
Please help with menu registeration:
I have followed this guide (http://codex.wordpress.org/Navigation_Menus) step by step.
Added the following code to functions.php:
function register_my_menus() {
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How to stop mobile theme inheriting desktop navigation menu?
UPDATE************
Well I have a working solution, although not ideal.
Using the Genesis sandbox child theme which has a mobile nav button built-in, I was able to set that to use the primary nav ...
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Adding a class (arrows) to main menu links that have children?
I'm wondering if it is possible to add different classes to second/third/fourth/etc-level items that have children in Appearance > Menus tree?
That's how I call the menu:
<?php $menu_args = ...
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How to activate "Description" metabox for menu item programmatically?
I'm creating custom wordpress theme. How can I enable "Description" metabox for menu items (on nav-menu page) by default programmatically?
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Category menu item and its last 10 posts as sub-menu
i have some posts categories as element of a main navigation menu, and i'd like to display the ten lasts posts of this category as sub menu.
ex: Category1
Lastpost1
Lastpost2
The ...
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Dynamically add sub-categories to any category in the menu
I have a menu with a combination of pages and categories. I need to loop through the menu and if it finds a category automatically add all child-categories as a submenu.
Page 1 | Page 2 | Custom Link
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Highlighting wp_nav_menu() Ancestor Class w/o Children in Nav Structure?
(Moderators note: Was originally titled "wp_nav_menu Ancestor class without children in navigation structure")
I have a wp_nav_menu in my header which had three pages in it. When I am on one of those ...
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How to use wp_nav_menu to create a select menu dropdown?
I'm using the following inside the wp_nav_menu function to create a select dropdown menu where each menu item is an option in the select dropdown...
'items_wrap' => '<select>%3$s</select&...
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Retrieving a list of menu items in an array
I am currently am working on a custom theme. In this theme, I have a menu that I registered using register-nav-menu, and then I am displaying the menu to my web page using the wp_nav_menu function.
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Apply the_title() filter in post & page title, but not in menu title
I use the following code to change the title of WordPress posts and pages. But it changes nav menu item titles too, which I want to avoid.
I want to change the title of posts and pages in: home page, ...
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Remove a menu item in menu
I know this has been asked many times. But from what i got after searching, i could not understand much. I have used wp_update_nav_menu_item to add menu items programatically. But i don't know how to ...
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Add settings to menu items in the Customizer
WordPress 5.4 added the wp_nav_menu_item_custom_fields_customize_template hook to add custom fields to the Nav Menu Item settings in the customizer. I've figured out how to display the additional ...
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Get the ID of the page a menu item links to?
I am currently using a custom walker to customize the output of wp_nav_menu(), and I am trying to add additional information to the <a> tags.
What I want the output for each menu link to look ...
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Add custom classes to anchor in wp_nav_menu
I want to add a custom class to anchors in wp_nav_menu outputs.
Default for example is:
<li id="menu-item" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom">
<a href="http://example.com">...
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Generate a Menu that Displays Child Pages using wp_list_pages() with the New Menu Functionality in WordPress 3.0?
Previously, I was able to selectively load child pages for a currently-selected parent page using logic such as:
if( $post->post_parent ) {
$children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$...
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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 Does The Walker Class Work?
Can someone explain to me how the Walker Class works? Do the methods inside the class always need to overload the parent method?
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Add separator to admin submenu
I would like to add a separator to the admin submenu section, NOT in the top level section.
I'm thinking of using javascript and styling to do the job, but I was wondering if there's a more ...
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How to add a custom metabox to the Menu Management admin screen?
Although I am very thankful to the wordpress core team that they have finally integrated native menu management capabilities I get frustrated with some key elements which I would like to change.
I ...
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wp_nav_menu remove class and id from li
I'm new to wordpress and trying to learn my way through from making a theme.
Right now I am using wp_nav_menu to generate my menu
My menu consists of pages and categories
However, the default ...
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How to create this custom menu walker?
I would like to set up a custom menu walker to remove the unordered list and wrap each individual link in a custom div element. The desired output would look like this:
<div class="col-md-3">&...
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Menu Items Disappearing
I'm running WP 3.5.1 and I've a menu with about 100 items. When I add new items to the menu older ones disappear.
I'm not running Suhosin or similar stuff. What can be the cause?
Note: I'm on a ...
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Remove current_page_parent nav class from blog index when in CPT
I'm trying to remove current_page_parent class from the blog index menu item (I got a custom page to display all blog posts and it is in the menu) when navigating custom post type archive page and ...
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Menu limit, cannot add new menu items
I'm running WP 3.4.2 on a VPS. When I first moved to this VPS server and imported all my WP data from the old, the menus worked fine. However, for some reason, I cannot edit/add to the menus, and some ...
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