can’t get Shortcode to show menu

  • Resolved bredamcguigan

    (@bredamcguigan)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks for your plugin. I am trying to get it to pull in a menu in a widget position. I have turned on the Shortcode option in the Responsive menu setting. I make a Text/html widget and put this code into it:
    [responsive_menu]
    I have a menu set up and selected in the Initial setup but it dosen’t show the menu?
    Here is the screenshot of it on the page:
    http://prntscr.com/fj9nig
    settings:
    http://prntscr.com/fj9nnr
    http://prntscr.com/fj9nsm

    one thing on your docs that says about extra options but I can’t see these?
    http://prntscr.com/fj9o37

    I also checked and the wp_head() and wp_footer() are present in the theme.
    Can you help please?
    Thanks
    Breda

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  • Peter Featherstone

    (@peterfeatherstone-1)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Breda,

    Does your widget area allow shortcodes?

    Peter

    Thread Starter bredamcguigan

    (@bredamcguigan)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Oh I assumed it did, I’ll look into that.
    Thanks,
    Breda

    Thread Starter bredamcguigan

    (@bredamcguigan)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Ok I have installed the Shortcode Widget and now have that one with the shortcode in.
    It only displays the title of the Widget, no menu? I have changed any settings?
    http://prntscr.com/fj9xrd
    thanks,
    Breeda

    Peter Featherstone

    (@peterfeatherstone-1)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Breeda,

    The menu is not going to show up inside the widget as the menu is hidden until the button is pressed. You also likely have the menu positioning set to absolute or fixed, unless you have changed it to relative.

    If you want to achieve this you will probably need to tweak a few settings and speak to your web developer about writing some Custom CSS to get the menu to show as you desire.

    Hope that helps

    Peter

    Thread Starter bredamcguigan

    (@bredamcguigan)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Peter
    I am a web developer, I can put in some css if need to. Is there a way to show the mwnu on page load and not have to wait until a button is pressed?
    thanks
    Breda

    Peter Featherstone

    (@peterfeatherstone-1)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hey Breda,

    Not in the plugin itself no and it’s quite difficult as it’s not just a case of adding some CSS, you also have the JavaScript elements to think about too.

    For example, if you simply add some CSS to show the menu on page load, then clicking on the button on page load will try to open the menu… but it will already be open so the user will have to click it twice.

    If you just want the menu to show on page load however the CSS should be very simple, just set the menu to have relative positioning (there may be some other things you need to do but they shouldn’t be hard to work out).

    All the best

    Peter

    Thread Starter bredamcguigan

    (@bredamcguigan)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Ok thanks, maybe this is not the right plugin for this job.
    Regards
    Breda

    Peter Featherstone

    (@peterfeatherstone-1)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hey Breda,

    I think you are correct.

    It sounds like you are looking for a standard menu rather than a hamburger style mobile/responsive one. There are plenty of good normal menu plugins on the repository so I’m sure you will find a good one that fits your specific needs 🙂

    Good luck moving forward and if you ever need a Responsive Menu in future I will be happy to help out.

    Peter

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