Get menus created with menu editor?

Question

I am new to wordpress and I am creating a theme for a local company as my final project towards my college degree. They wish to use this theme as a main theme for all their wp sites and that any change in design shall be taken care of by child themes.

they requested that some subpages should have a sidebar menu and some others to have another sidebar menu.

I have made a metabox with a dropdownlist in the page editor so that I can select a menu for each page. The dropdownlist displays all registered menus that are hardcoded inside the theme but not the ones created inside the admin menu editor.

$menus = get_registered_nav_menus();
echo '<select>';
foreach($menus as $menu => $value){
   echo '<option value="'.$menu.'">' . $value .'</option>';
}
echo '</select>';

How can I also get the menus that are created with the admin menu editor?

Answer 1

Maybe this helps :

function get_all_wordpress_menus(){
    return get_terms( 'nav_menu', array( 'hide_empty' => true ) ); 
}

get_registered_nav_menus only gets the theme's menu's and not the clients menu's.

Source : Paulund This returns all ID's. To get the name you can use :

<?php $nav_menu = wp_get_nav_menu_object(ID comes here); echo $nav_menu->name; ?>

All menu objects have the next settings :

Object (
term_id => 7
name => Test menu
slug => Test menu
term_group => 0
term_taxonomy_id => 3
taxonomy => nav_menu
description =>
parent => 0
count => 6
)

Source : Stanhub Display wordpress menu title

Answer 2

To get a list of all menus created through the WordPress menu editor, use the wp_get_nav_menus function.

<?php
var_dump( wp_get_nav_menus() );