Comments on: Getting Started with WordPress Custom Menus

By: UKCaveDiver

UKCaveDiver — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:36:00 +0000

Hello,

thanks for the great tutorial!

I’m playing around with custom post types/taxonomies for a while now and I’m wondering that there is no support to add a menu entry in custom menus which resolves in a list of posts, that are e.g. from a certain post type and have a special value in a taxonomie!

you can have either taxonomy-values (even hierarchical queries – great) as menue entries, which lists everything that matches, but no combinations of post-types and/or taxonomies?

As I’m fairly new to the wordpress ecosystem I would appreciate any hints to a existing plugin that provides this kind of functionality or information how to develop such a plugin/custom menu extension.

thanks in advance
kind regards
Klaus :)

By: Danalorraine

Danalorraine — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:27:00 +0000

Any tips on how to get a menu to drop below the header? I’m using a custom menu in the Scherzo theme and getting a bit stuck with it. Thanks.

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:56:00 +0000

Thanks! This solved the issue I was having :)

By: BayanSell

BayanSell — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:28:00 +0000

Thanks! That’s exactly what I need.

By: Magicsun

Magicsun — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:22:00 +0000

Look in to this:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gecka-submenu/

It’s Gechka Submenu, and it adds a checkbox to your parent menu items that you can check to automatically add child-pages to the menu. So you only create “about” for example, and when you add 3 pages in your dashboard that have “about” as parent, it will automatically create those submenu items.

By: Magicsun

Magicsun — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:20:00 +0000

I seem to found the solution to my own problem.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gecka-submenu/

it’s a plugin that allows to automatically add child-items to the menu. So for example, you have “About” and you have 3 pages that have “about” as parent. Then you only have to create an about menu item, and check the box for automatically add child-pages. It will create the submenu’s itself.

By: Magicsun

Magicsun — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:10:00 +0000

I’m probably missing something, but when I create a parent menu item, and have the checkbox for new pages checked and everything it works fine. But when making a new page after that, it doesn’t automatically gets added on the right spot. It just gets added as a seperate parent item in the menu.

It’s kinda weird, that a client has to actually drag the page to the proper spot, while he has chosen a “parent” page when making the new page.

Does anyone get what I want? Am I missing something? I’ve now switched to the old style, that automatically uses the structure that I choose in pages. it would be really weird if this isn’t possible with the new system ..

Thanks.

By: Magicsun

Magicsun — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:02:00 +0000

I use the “Ambrosite Unlink Parent Pages” plugin. It automatically replaced the url with a # so it won’t go to the page. You won’t have to do anything for it, just install the plugin and it does all the work. It only replaces when it has sub-menu’s. If it’s a single item, it will link to the page.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:16:00 +0000

Thanks so much for this. A clear and concise guide which is so easy to follow. Solved my problem that was troubling me for an entire week.

By: Clemens Plainer

Clemens Plainer — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:57:00 +0000

Thanks for that Comment. That’s what I really needed :)

By: Hieg

Hieg — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:41:00 +0000

This is great, thanks for the article! I’m using the new Network Sites feature and I’m trying to deploy a single theme across all of the Sites. I want the theme to have a common top nav. I’m using this method to create my custom nav but of course it’s site specific. Does anyone know a way I can use a custom menu from one Site in my network across all of the sites?

By: Coolguy997

Coolguy997 — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:20:00 +0000

This was actually what I was looking for and would have been helpful as a mention in the original post. Look at freelearn2fly.blogspot.com as well for more info. Thanks

By: BayanSell

BayanSell — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:21:00 +0000

Thanks for this, however, it didn’t solve my problem. Perhaps you can answer? I want my Destinations menu to automatically add locations in its submenu. This happens using the standard menu, but not in the custom menu. Am I missing something?

By: Mmtahir

Mmtahir — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:33:00 +0000

Can we style this menu horizentaly in table-like format. I would love to hear fom somebody about css for this

By: Anil507

Anil507 — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:48:00 +0000

Thanks for your details.. I fixed my problem and my sidebar looks crazy.
http://funnyandspicy.com

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:40:00 +0000

This was actually what I was looking for and would have been helpful as a mention in the original post. Thanks Pablo

Good article anyway.

By: nanggroe

nanggroe — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:23:00 +0000

thanks a lot for this article

By: Scott Turkington

Scott Turkington — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:44:00 +0000

I thought your post may help me fix an issue I’m having but I couldn’t figure out my issue. I have a wordpress theme Boldy installed at http://www.whatintheworld.tv made by http://www.site5.com. For some reason it’s duplicating the second nav button “Hosts” again at the end. I used firebug and by deleting
it appears correctly in firefox but I can’t narrow down what document contains this code. I’ve searched the source of every document associated with wordpress and it can’t find that line of code. I’m totally lost? Thanks for your help!

By: sagive SEO -שגיב

sagive SEO -שגיב — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:19:00 +0000

i love it man!! thanks.. been looking for some simple how to on wordpress menus

By: Roopedog

Roopedog — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:15:00 +0000

3 steps and out… nice post… thanks for the quick code!

By: cangrejero

cangrejero — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:39:00 +0000

This is the kind of tutorial that is dumb proof. Congratulations!

Just one quick question. Let’s say that I want to exclude, or only show certain categories of posts in my “Home” Page. How do I accomplish that with “wp_nav_menu”?

By: cangrejero

cangrejero — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:39:00 +0000

This is the kind of tutorial that is dumb proof. Congratulations!

Just one quick question. Let’s say that I want to exclude, or only show certain categories of posts in my “Home” Page. How do I accomplish that with “wp_nav_menu”?

By: Fadillicious

Fadillicious — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:33:00 +0000

thx dude
my problem solved

By: Clearbluesky

Clearbluesky — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:22:00 +0000

Me too!

By: Pablo Selín Carrasco Armijo

Pablo Selín Carrasco Armijo — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:09:00 +0000

actually, I found that you have to call the menu using ‘theme_location’ instead of ‘menu’ if you want to use multiple locations for your menus, like this:

wp_nav_menu(array(‘theme_location’ => ‘menu_name’));

otherwise you will get only the first menu displayed…

it’s a nice article anyway, just wanted to tell in case someone has a problem with that.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:36:00 +0000

I’m looking for the same solution. Please post here if anyone knows how to do this. Thanks!

By: Yaya

Yaya — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:10:00 +0000

thanks, that’s very useful and clear.
how can i add a menu item that only opens it’s sub menu items without being linked to a page? like in your example the about won’t be clickable itself but would show the our company and our products options?
thanks again!

By: front row spectator

front row spectator — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:30:00 +0000

I love this tutorial. I was able to set up my custom menu but now, the post that i linked through category to my custom menu, which so happens to be my last post, the header (or should i say title of the post?) is not displayed. I need help :(

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:27:00 +0000

Wow, I cant wait to use this

By: Mike Jongbloet

Mike Jongbloet — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:47:00 +0000

Does anyone know the class name for the Custom Menu Widget?

I’m trying to remove it and all default WP widgets, using

unregister_widget(‘WP_Widget_Recent_Comments’);

However, I can;t track down the class name for this widget?

Any ideas?