menus

Customizing Only a Specific Menu using the “wp_nav_menu_items” Hook?

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

Any docs for wp_nav_menu’s “items_wrap” argument?

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

Programmatically add a Navigation menu and menu items

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

Display a portion/ branch of the menu tree using wp_nav_menu()

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

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