I am creating a custom nav walker but having trouble outputting parent menu item title in start_lvl function. I want to output it right after the <div class=”dropdown”> in the following start_lvl function. function start_lvl(&$output, $depth = 0, $args = array()) { $indent = str_repeat(“\t”, $depth); if ($depth == 0) { $out_div = ‘ <div … Read more
I’m trying to solve a particular problem and having trouble figuring out which way is best. So, I have a menu (generated through WP’s menu creator) and would like to pull the featured image of each chapter as a background image for its respective sub-menu. Here’s what I have right now: /***** Images in main … Read more
I have seen very similar (if not exact) queries to this all over Google, but always seem to find something short of what I need. I am trying to create my full vertical menu using wp_nav_menu in my template. Only I would like to only show the current branch, siblings, and their children. Kind of … Read more
I’m trying to use the following code in functions.php in order to show a menu with categories (custom taxonomies actually). I simply want it to show active when on the current page. What am I doing wrong? I also see that the $category = get_category($mycatid); line doesn’t populate the $category variable. <?php class walker_archives extends … Read more
The question I would like to check what type of menu item each item in my menu is i.e. is it a Page, Category, or Custom link. What I want to achieve I want to create a menu made up of categories and pages links. Of the categories in the menu I only want to … Read more
Are there any benefits to using a nav walker class over iterating through wp_get_nav_menu_items()? Nav walkers seem very clunky to me and iterating over an array feels easier and more re-usable but it then bypasses the internal menu filters of wordpress that I don’t know much about. Will this make my theme incompatible with some … Read more
I want to add the id of the parent element in a container div of children elements. How can I do that? Here is my code: <?php public function start_lvl( &$output, $depth = 0, $args = array() ) { $indent = str_repeat( “\t”, $depth ); $output .= “\n$indent<ul id=\”Here I want to tell wordpress to … Read more
I’m working on a child theme and while everything works the Walker_Nav_Menu and Walker classes are causing all the fuss. My parent theme overrides Walker_Nav_Menu as below: if ( ! class_exists( ‘Zen_Menu_Walker’ ) ) { class Zen_Menu_Walker extends Walker_Nav_Menu { public function display_element( $element, &$children_elements, $max_depth, $depth = 0, $args, &$output ) { $element->has_children = … Read more
So I am just now learning and playing with custom walkers and I came across this really helpful Stack Overflow question. So I implemented the answer in that answer and added this to my functions.php of my theme (which btw is an underscores theme if that helps) class Custom_Walker_Nav_Menu extends Walker_Nav_Menu { function start_el ( … Read more
I have a custom nav walker I’m trying to use to output only the first level of a menu: <?php wp_nav_menu( array( ‘theme_location’ => ‘secondary-menu’, ‘depth’ => 1, ‘walker’ => new SecondaryNavWalker ) ); ?> However, all levels of the navigation are outputted regardless. I’ve tried doing a check against the arg in start_el, but … Read more
