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Custom menus don't show up in admin panel
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Hi wordpress-pros,
I’m writing my own theme and i neet to use custom menus.
So i activated Appearance > Menus with my functions.php file:function register_custom_menu() { if ( function_exists('register_nav_menu') ) { register_nav_menus(array( 'main' => __( 'Hauptnavigation' ), 'sub' => __( 'Seitennavigation' ) )); } unregister_nav_menu( 'primary' ); }
And I’m calling that method from my default-filters.php file.
But when i create a custom menu with some pages it doesn’t show up anywhere in Appearance > Menus. So i cannot rename, change or delete it.
Has anybody experienced the same problem and knows the solution how to get the menus appear?
P.S.: I don’t use any plug-ins.
Sorry if somebody posted the same issue, but I didn’t find it…
Thanks in advance!
Christian
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Is this a child theme? If not, why are you using
unregister_nav_menu( 'primary' );
?Because I wanted just to see my own theme locations. But it makes no difference if I unregister primary or not. In both cases the menus don’t appear
Because I wanted just to see my own theme locations.
So is this a child theme or not?
Sorry, I forgot to answer this question: No, it’s not.
/* Theme Name: my_name Theme URI: localhost Description: my_description Author: Christian Lehner Author URI: - */
In the following link you can see an image. That’s what i see in the backend. The error message indicates that there should be a main-menu…and i think i should see the main-menu next to the “+”-sign, right?
If this isn’t a child theme, then you can drop
unregister_nav_menu( 'primary' );?
I already dropped it.
But unfortunately my problem is still there
Have you incorporated
wp_nav_menu()
where you want your custom menus to show?My menus are in the header. And they show up correctly in the header.
But my problem is that i cannot edit the custom menus i made in the backend, because they’re not there (or i can’t see the link to the menus). I posted a link to the picture of my backend 4 posts above.And i think the custom menus must be somewhere in the backend to edit or delete them, right?
What aren’t there? The Locations?
Let’s say i made a custom menu and named it ‘main-menu’. Then there should be a new tab with that name next to the “+”-sign in the backend in Appearance > Menus, right?
That’s not there and i don’t know why.
Or am I wrong and the menu should be accessible somewhere else?
there should be a new tab with that name next to the “+”-sign in the backend in Appearance > Menus, right?
No. You have to create that menu yourself. All the theme can do is specify the final locations for these custom menus.
But I created the menu. And I assigned some of my pages to that menu and then saved it. But I’m looking for a possibility to edit or delete that menu
I’m sorry, but I don’t get it right now…
Have you assigned that new menu to either the main or sub locations in Appearance -> Menus?
You can also remove or add new menu items to the new menu on the same page. And completely delete the menu if you want. You might want to take a few minutes out to review custom menu management.
Thanks for that link, but in the first picture there’s exactly the problem I’m experiencing. In that screenshot the user defines a menu called ‘navmenu’ and gets the tab with the text ‘navmenu’ next to the ‘+’-sign.
When I create a new menu i don’t get that tab like you can see it in this screenshot. The error message in my screenshot says that there is already a menu called ‘main-menu’, but the tab isn’t there.
So I have no possibility to make changes to that custom menu.
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