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1. pleuriticus
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I am using wp_page_menu to generate a menu. I'd like to add a span insice the tags, and set it upt like this:

   wp_page_menu('link_after=test&title_li=&sort_column=menu_order&show_home=1');

   When I view souce on the page generated using this code, all of the links in the menu list include the "test" (after the menu item text inside the "a" tags, EXCEPT the home link. The Home link just closes after the word "Home." So, how can I add text before and after every link? Say, I wanted to use span's to stretch a graphic menu button on every button... Would I have to go back to the old method, or am I just using wp_page_menu incorrectly?

2. Chantal Coolsma
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   How did you resolve this? Can you tell us?

3. pleuriticus
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Instead of having wp-page-menu include a home link on the menu list, I added a page in the admin control panel called Home, and set my posts to display on that page. Then, added my span and /span tags to the wp_page_menu to appear before and after each menu item link.

   Problem was that when you use wp_page_menu, and you do not have a page called home - so your home is essentially just your posts page, and you ask wp_page_menu to include a link to that home page, it does not add any of the before and after text you specify in the wp_page_menu function call.

   Still think this should either be fixed in the wp_page_menu function - or an actual home page for posts should be generated by dafault on install. It is rather inelegant, as it is, to have to add the page and assign posts to it in order to get the specified before and after link text/tags to appear on the home link, so you don't have to make a special button for it when you're trying to make two-piece expanding tabs or menu buttons.

4. dbreece
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I just ran into this same problem, and I agree, there should be a way to add the link_before and link_after tags to the Home link.

   I found that you can get adequate results by adding a regular link to Home right in front of the wp_page_menu call, with the <span> tags in place.

   <a id="homelink" href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>"><span>Home</span></a>
   
   <? wp_page_menu(array('link_before' => '<span>',
                         'link_after'	=> '</span>',
                         'menu_class' => 'navbar')); ?>

   I had to do a little css massaging to get it to line up with the
   generated links, but the end result is seamless.

5. lukemiller
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm new to WP so maybe this was fixed within the last two months but here's what I found to solve the problem:

   <?php wp_page_menu( array( 'show_home' => 'Blog', 'sort_column' => 'menu_order' ) ); ?>

   Where "Blog" is the text you want for the button link.

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