Menu Code Generator (Responsive)

  • patrick_here

    (@patrick_here)


    5 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,
    I’m looking for a Menu Code Generator that could just generate all the WordPress-related php and css (and possibly even javascript) for a responsive menu so that I could just copy it into a simple minimal theme I’m developing. Does such a generator exist? Or is there somewhere online where I can find such code?

    I know I could also just reverse-engineer it out of an existing theme but it seems that there ought to be some generated or reusable code around somewhere for such a purpose. Also: I know I could do all this with a plugin but I don’t want to do it that way. Thanks in advance for any help.

    Patrick

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    I didn’t do any new searches for you, but I had a bookmark for https://generatewp.com/ which focuses on the PHP portion. It’s not what you want at all, I’m afraid. The PHP portion is very minimal.

    I use http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/ for ideas about the CSS portion. You have to adjust the CSS for WordPress’ standard menu walker, unless you supply a different walker. Also, the standard walkers generate slightly different classes for a Page menu (which is the standard fallback) and a custom menu created by the user.
    Bootstrap has a walker that is used in many themes, but I don’t recommend it.
    My own theme’s menu is CSS only, but most themes have some javascript to handle mobile and accessibility concerns.

    The menu is the tricky part of a theme, and they are all different. You’d be better off copying the menu from a theme that you like (or a plugin, where it’s already separate).

    Thread Starter patrick_here

    (@patrick_here)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Hello Joy,
    Yeah, yeah, I know all that. But thanks for replying anyway (misery loves company). It’s rather amazing that there’s no straightforward answer for this question.

    And I didn’t know anything about the Bootstrap option so thanks for commenting on it. I see many people seem to be using it for menus in WordPress but I’m wanting to use CSS Grid instead of Bootstrap so I wouldn’t want the Bootstrap dependency just for the nav menu.

    There are various cute little web pages online about how to create a wordpress menu with responsive capability but so many of them are single-level-only on mobile – it’s annoying!

    Thanks again!!
    Patrick

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