Hi @BinaryBit: It’s no wonder you are a bit frustrated; the admin menu is one of the most obtuse and frustrating implementations through WordPress core. Honestly, I don’t know what they were thinking when they designed it that way. @EAMann did an excellent job of explaining how the admin menus work in WordPress (I wish … Read more
To only add the custom search box to the main menu you could pass the second parameter provided by the wp_nav_menu_items filter and check if the theme_location is the primary location add_filter(‘wp_nav_menu_items’,’search_box_function’, 10, 2); function search_box_function( $nav, $args ) { if( $args->theme_location == ‘primary’ ) return $nav.”<li class=”menu-header-search”><form action=’http://example.com/’ id=’searchform’ method=’get’><input type=”text” name=”s” id=’s’ placeholder=”Search”></form></li>”; … Read more
To get your custom post types to show up in Appearance -> Menus, you need to do two things: Check your arguments and make sure that show_in_nav_menus is set to true. Go to the Appearance -> Menus page and at the very top, click on Screen Options. In the panel that opens, make sure that … Read more
This will add a custom field to the menu item edit. However, you will not see the custom field until you have saved the menu for the newly added menu item. When you first add an item, you will only see the standard fields. After save, the new field will be available also for edit. … Read more
The parameter ‘items_wrap’ for wp_nav_menu() defaults to: ‘<ul id=”%1$s” class=”%2$s”>%3$s</ul>’ This a a template that is parsed with sprintf(): $nav_menu .= sprintf( $args->items_wrap , esc_attr( $wrap_id ) // %1$s , esc_attr( $wrap_class ) // %2$s , $items // %3$s ); The numbered placeholders – %1$s, %2$s, %3$s – refer to the arguments after the first … Read more
I might be misunderstanding you, but why not use wp_create_nav_menu()? E.g., this is what I do to create a custom BuddyPress menu when I detect BP as active: $menuname = $lblg_themename . ‘ BuddyPress Menu’; $bpmenulocation = ‘lblgbpmenu’; // Does the menu exist already? $menu_exists = wp_get_nav_menu_object( $menuname ); // If it doesn’t exist, let’s … Read more
You are overloading the taxonomy category. Learn to use custom taxonomies. Some of your categories are in fact series, others belong into their own taxonomy too. Replace the hard coded navigation ul with a nav menu and look into the TwentyTen theme: it has a working solution for your problem. You can use your own … Read more
You need a custom walker for the nav menu. Basically, you add a parameter ‘walker’ to the wp_nav_menu() options and call an instance of an enhanced class: wp_nav_menu( array ( ‘menu’ => ‘main-menu’, ‘container’ => FALSE, ‘container_id’ => FALSE, ‘menu_class’ => ”, ‘menu_id’ => FALSE, ‘depth’ => 1, ‘walker’ => new Description_Walker ) ); The … Read more
This was still on my mind so I revisited it and put together this solution, that does not rely on context that much: add_filter( ‘wp_nav_menu_objects’, ‘submenu_limit’, 10, 2 ); function submenu_limit( $items, $args ) { if ( empty( $args->submenu ) ) { return $items; } $ids = wp_filter_object_list( $items, array( ‘title’ => $args->submenu ), ‘and’, … Read more
You can make the ‘slug’ for the submenu page equal that of the top level page, and they’ll point to the same place: add_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘my_menu_pages’); function my_menu_pages(){ add_menu_page(‘My Page Title’, ‘My Menu Title’, ‘manage_options’, ‘my-menu’, ‘my_menu_output’ ); add_submenu_page(‘my-menu’, ‘Submenu Page Title’, ‘Whatever You Want’, ‘manage_options’, ‘my-menu’ ); add_submenu_page(‘my-menu’, ‘Submenu Page Title2’, ‘Whatever You Want2’, ‘manage_options’, … Read more