Issue with custom menus

  • Resolved awalls

    (@awalls)


    12 years ago

    Hi,

    I am having a strange problem with a theme I am developing in that as part of the theme I have defined two menu areas a main nav and a footer nav. I have defined these in my function.php file as follows:

    if (function_exists('register_nav_menus')) {
  register_nav_menus(
    array(
      'main_nav'    => "Main Nav Menu",
      'footer_nav'  => "Footer Menu"
    )
  );
}

    Now within my theme I can see that it now supports two navigation areas:

    http://awesomescreenshot.com/0d5499k9b

    And within my header.php and footer.php I have defined the following:

    <div id="nav-bar">
  <ul class="cf">
    <?php wp_nav_menu(
      array(
        'menu'	=> 'main_nav',
      ));
    ?>
  </ul>
</div>

    and 

    <ul class="menu cf floatLeft">
  <?php wp_nav_menu(
    array(
      'menu'	=> 'footer_nav',
    ));
  ?>
</ul>

    However both menus areas always show the main menu even if from within the menus area I have defined one to us main and the other to use footer. Even more confusiing if I leave both of these blank I’d expect to see no menu displayed in these areas but it always displays the main menu.

    Would appreciate some advice as to where I might be going wrong.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
  • vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    11 years, 12 months ago

    The parameters to wp_nav_menu are confusing. I think that ‘main_nav’ and ‘footer_nav’ are actually theme_location’s. Give this a try:

    <ul class="menu cf floatLeft">
  <?php wp_nav_menu(
    array(
      'theme_location'	=> 'footer_nav',
    ));
  ?>
</ul>
    Thread Starter awalls

    (@awalls)

    11 years, 12 months ago

    Thanks, that worked. The parameters are a bit confusing. Am a WP newbie and just getting used to its “idiosyncrasies” 🙂

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
  • The topic ‘Issue with custom menus’ is closed to new replies.