Use the ‘theme_location’ argument in header-anesthesia.php: wp_nav_menu( array( ‘theme_location’ => ‘anesthesia-menu’ ) ); WordPress will look for a menu assigned to this location now and pick that instead of the default menu.
Use wp_dropdown_pages(): print ‘<form action=”‘ . home_url() . ‘”>’; wp_dropdown_pages(); print ‘<input type=submit></form>’; You get a select field with proper indentation, and clicking on the button will send the user to that page.
Use Page Links To plugin by Mark Jaquith. Edit top level page and in section Page Links To select An alternate URL and enter # as an URL.
Create a custom link and drag it to the menu:
You can put in Custom links from the wordpress menu dashboard.
My solution uses the Walker_Nav_Menu and a custom class and is mostly hacked together from this post: How do I dynamically populate wp_nav_menu from a custom taxonomy? Solution: //define the custom post type //could use “page” or “post” as well. define(“MENU_CPT”, “action”); //custom function for selecting posts based on a page parent (ne’ term_id) function … Read more
This is most likely the default behavior for Twenty Twelve; responsive for small screens and thus stacking elements on the page, including the contents of your nav, #site-navigation. Let’s looks at the nav section in the default TT theme: <nav id=”site-navigation” class=”main-navigation” role=”navigation”> <h3 class=”menu-toggle”>Menu</h3> <a class=”assistive-text” href=”#content” title=”Skip to content”>Skip to content</a> <div class=”nav-menu”> … Read more
From look at core this is coming from this: // back-compat with wp_page_menu: add “current_page_parent” to static home page link for any non-page query if ( ! empty( $home_page_id ) && ‘post_type’ == $menu_item->type && empty( $wp_query->is_page ) && $home_page_id == $menu_item->object_id ) $classes[] = ‘current_page_parent’; It seems to be some legacy thing, I would … Read more
All of the methods are being overridden when you load your own walker, but typically you would extend another Walker which works a bit like “filtering” or “pluggable functions”. Take a look at this very simple walker from another question: class my_extended_walker extends Walker_Nav_Menu { function start_lvl(&$output, $depth = 0, $args = array()) { $output … Read more
I’m not sure what you are asking for, but I think you need some general suggestions. So: 1) Websites are made by three layers. WordPress (like others good CMS) creates “only” TEXT menu because this is the (fundamental) semantic layer. 1-b) Then, you can always add a presentation layer (css) or a behaviour layer (javascript) … Read more