Your html structure should look like <ul class=”parent-class”> <li>Page 1</li> <li> <ul class=”child-class”> <li> Sub menu item 1</li> <li> Sub menu item 2</li> </ul> </li> </ul> WordPress should automatically add an “active” class to the active page then you should be able to style everything with css. Something like .parent-class li ul { Display:none; } … Read more
Comments not nesed with custom template
You’ll find it much easier to control which fields are shown, by controlling which walker is used. Rather than trying to ‘toggle’ the fields inside the walker. I also wanted to show a bunch of custom fields, and only show them on a menu at a particular menu location. So I used the following… add_filter( … Read more
Finally, after some thorough search and as suggested by @Howdy_McGee in his comment I got the Nav Walker working as expected. For those looking for something similar, here is how I did it. Instead of outputting parent menu item title in start_lvl function, I included it in start_el function and the final code looked like … Read more
Use walker for specific menu, or avoid use of walker
Well, as much as I prefer to have my own walker and control over the nav, I found a plugin that does exactly what I want: Advanced Menu Widget http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-menu-widget/ Only tested slightly but its working just as I expected, just have to select “Only strictly related sub-menu” in the menu widget config. I should … Read more
Changing current_page_item to current-menu-item solved the problem because these were taxonomies and not pages. Whats the difference between current_page_item and current-menu-item
Fortunately, there is an easy fix for this. The $item in the Walker delivers Classes, and if the menu item is an archive, you get one of those: menu-item-type-taxonomy (general) menu-item-object-product_cat (product_cat == taxonomyname) as well as $item->type == ‘taxonomy’ $item->object == ‘your_taxonomy’ If you want this logic to work for various Archives (not just … Read more
I would say mostly you see the usage of wp_nav_menu(), which does use wp_get_nav_menu_items(). You can use wp_nav_menu() with the default walker or a custom walker. To be honest I can’t remember the time I did a menu manually, with wp_get_nav_menu_items() or something else, and I tend to be lazy, so this is definitely more … Read more
You don’t have the data you need in the start_lvl() method to do this. That data is available in the start_el() method in the $item variable, so you will have to cook up a way to pass that data along: class my_extended_walker extends Walker_Nav_Menu { var $prnt = 0; var $pdepth = false; public function … Read more