You wont need that PHP code to style links to the current page in your nav. WordPress adds a class (current-menu-item) by default on links to the current page. But WordPress does not style the link for you. That would be part of the theme. You can add a rule to the theme’s CSS ( … Read more
If you want change only CSS classes, you can use filters nav_menu_submenu_css_class (for <ul> element, codex) and nav_menu_css_class (for <li>, codex). Example of usage: add_filter(‘nav_menu_css_class’ , ‘special_menu_item_class’ , 20 , 4); function special_menu_item_class($classes, $item, $args, $depth) { // add or replace classes $classes[] = ‘rd-nav-item’; if ($args->has_children) { $classes[] = ‘rd-navbar–has-dropdown’; } return $classes; }
So you need to real name and URL of the parent in the submenu. You have no info about a post item in your function start_lvl(). But in function start_el() you have the items and could query for it’s parent. This needs some refactoring with putting lines like the if($display_depth > 0){ condition from start_lvl … Read more
Where to place a svg chevron down in my custom walker?
Walker_Nav_menu extends walker and includes all the markup for a menu. walker by itself doesn’t have any markup, it just handles walking the tree, and needs to be extended to add markup. See the documentation: Extend the Walker class to use it, see examples below. Child classes do not need to implement all of the … Read more
Walker_Category – not reliably saving
I can extend the Walker_Nav_Menu class, but after taking a look to it, it seems there’s no way to know when an sub-menu will contain other sub-menu, because there’s no data available about its children You may want to look again mate. The Walker::display_element(…) method take the “List of elements to continue traversing” (understand children … Read more
Change markup for just 2nd list element in custom Walker menu
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