After being obtuse, I finally “got it”, and it’s working well

I am not a php coder and, therefore, not a wordpress coder either. So it is often difficult for me to make things work in wordpress as I want them to. The theme I am using has a slide out primary menu which seemed totally inaccessible to me, so I took an alternate option (which I really didn’t want) and selected an optional sidebar and inserted the bellows short code in the widget. It was easy and worked as it was supposed to.

But I really wanted the primary menu to work and put a question on support as to how I could do that. Steven Spark told me how but I didn’t really get it because I hadn’t looked at the documentation. (I didn’t look at the docs because there are a lot of plugins whose documentation is not very good). When I finally looked at it, in desperation, I found the answer.

If it is the primary menu, as designed by the theme designer, that you want to use the Bellows Accordion Menu plugin for – and if the only place you can make that change is in the PHP, then you are going to have to copy the php code provided by the plugin and insert the code into the php file in your theme (usually header.php) where the theme’s menu code is. But you also have to remove the theme designer’s code or you will get two copies of the menu – the Bellows Menus and then the theme’s menu.

For someone like me who doesn’t code, removing professionally written code is daunting. After I removed the theme’s code and saved the file, I held my breath when I went to look at the results. The results were what I was looking for. (I then eliminated the unwanted sidebar and sidebar menu.)

• This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by anoctave.
• This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by anoctave.