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1. ccmovies
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I am making a WordPress theme and I am using the WP menus option. I enabled it in the functions.php file using this code:
   

   //enable WP 3.0 menus
   add_theme_support( 'menus' );
   if ( function_exists( 'register_nav_menus' ) ) {
   	register_nav_menus(
   		array(
   		  'top_menu' => 'Top Menu',
   		  'bottom_menu' => 'Bottom Menu'
   		)
   	);
   }

   Then I used this code in my header.php and footer.php:
   

   if(function_exists('register_my_menus')):
   wp_nav_menu(
   array(
   'menu' =>'top_menu',
   'container'=>'',
   'depth' => 1,
   'menu_id' => 'menuTop' )
   );
   endif;

   and
   

   if(function_exists('register_my_menus')):
   wp_nav_menu(
   array(
   'menu' =>'bottom_menu',
   'container'=>'',
   'depth' => 1,
   'menu_id' => 'menuBottom' )
   );
   endif;

   I cannot figure out why they wouldn't show up at all, I am pretty sure they were showing when I was first configuring it. However, after a day or two when I started working on it again, it doesn't even show up. If for whatever reason it helps, here is my website: http://connorcrosby.net/blog. Thank you!

2. ccmovies
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I changed it this on the functions.php page:
   

   register_nav_menus( array(
   'menu_top' => __( 'Top Menu', 'cctheme' ),
   'menu_bottom' => __( 'Bottom Menu', 'cctheme' ),
   ) );

   On the header.php and footer.php (except menu and menu_id are changed) I have:
   

   wp_nav_menu(
   array(
   'menu' =>'menu_top',
   'container'=>'',
   'depth' => 1,
   'menu_id' => 'menuTop' )
   );

   And it displays my menus however they are the same links. It seems like they are referring to the same menu. When I added a link to my top menu, the bottom menu shows the same thing. And I know they are both set to different ones.

3. ccmovies
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Never mind, I figured out the problem myself.

4. greeenkaos
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   care to share? I'm having the same issue with a bottom menu showing the same items as the top menu, though I've done it the same way several times with no problems.

5. greeenkaos
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   No sure why this is required sometimes and other times not, but it appears the solution is to use the theme_location parameter when calling the menus with wp_nav_menu, such as

   top menu

   <?php wp_nav_menu('menu=top_menu&theme_location=top_menu'); ?>

   bottom menu

   <?php wp_nav_menu('menu=bottom_menu&theme_location=bottom_menu'); ?>

   in my case functions.php looks like

   <?php add_theme_support( 'menus' );
   
   if ( function_exists( 'register_nav_menus' ) ) {
   
   	register_nav_menus(
   
   		array(
   
   		'top_menu' => 'TopMenu',
   
   		'bottom_menu' => 'BottomMenu'
   
   		)
   
   	);
   
   }
   
   ?>

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