Since the release of WordPress 3.0 it’s possible to create custom menus.
Theme developers can enable this menu by adding the following code to ‘functions.php’:
<?php add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'theme_setup' ); function theme_setup() { register_nav_menus( array( 'primary' => __( 'Primary Navigation', 'theme-identifier' ), ) ); } ?>
After this the menus will appear in ‘Appearance’ and your ready to create some custom menus the way you like.
Implementing the menu in your theme is as easy as adding this line of code:
<?php wp_nav_menu(); ?>
This will output the menu in an unsorted list (<li>’s). Of course it’s possible to style these menus by providing an arguments array, but I rather retrieve all menus in an ordered array without directly displaying them on the page.
The solution I came up with is really simple (strange it isn’t really documented on codex):
<?php $menus = wp_get_nav_menus(); $menu_items = wp_get_nav_menu_items($menus[0]); foreach ($menu_items as $menu_item): echo "<div>"; echo " <a href='$menu_item->url'>$menu_item->title</a>"; echo "</div>"; endforeach; ?>
Hey Patrick,
Nice and simple solution.
The reason this is not in the codex, is that the codex mentions the use of a custom walker. With a custom walker you can achieve the same solution, but I think thats how the WordPress devs created
Greetz,
Marco
Thank you so much! I am doing a client site and needed something like this!
You have no idea how happy I am haha.
Cheers,
Tyler
Individuals are all good factors. Thank you for sharing them.
@Tyler thanks! Always great to see happy people
How to print submenu through loop. The below code show all menu in li, submenu does not come in ul.
Thank X in advance
<?php
$menus = wp_get_nav_menus();
$menu_items = wp_get_nav_menu_items($menus[0]);
foreach ($menu_items as $menu_item):
echo "”;
echo ” url’>$menu_item->title“;
echo “”;
endforeach;
?>