The Problem with your code is that its not actually adding the links to the menu and only to the menu’s output, hence the use of a filter (add_filter) so you are just filtering the output of the menu in fact even if you don’t have a menu your link will be shown with the … Read more
There is a navigation menu plugin extension for the REST API v2: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-api-menus/
start_el() should get this information in its $args parameter, but it appears WordPress only fills this in if $args is an array, while for the custom navigation menus it is an object. This is reported in a Trac ticket. But no problem, you can fill this in yourself, if you also override the display_element() method … Read more
I have a few ideas: Set the custom link to # which won’t return anything Add a custom class to the items and then use jQuery to remove the links. Use a PHP equivalent to the jQuery method Use the Disable Parent Menu Link plugin (or take it apart and write your own)
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 $nav.”<li class=”menu-header-search”><form action=’http://example.com/’ id=’searchform’ method=’get’><input type=”text” name=”s” id=’s’ placeholder=”Search”></form></li>”; … Read more
The parameter ‘items_wrap’ for wp_nav_menu() defaults to: ‘<ul id=”%1$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
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