Title: Header Navigation Menu
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Header Navigation Menu

 *  [sandygraph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandygraph/)
 * (@sandygraph)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-navigation-menu-1/)
 * I recently was appointed to maintain a site since the web-developer was let go.
   I am trying to simply add some pages and sub pages to this site
    [http://tintedadvertisinggraphics.com/](http://tintedadvertisinggraphics.com/)
   I thought it would be as simple as going to the WordPress back end and add some
   pages and sub pages, however, my luck proved other wise. Under appearance > menus
   it said the theme does not natively support menus. So I went and looked for a
   php code to insert into the functions.php of the theme, and now in the appearances
   > menus window a new tab that says manage locations appears. I thought that I
   would simply add a new menu and it would show up but that’s not the case. So 
   PLEASE HELP! This is my first encounter with php and theme was hard coded by 
   that web developer so I would like to know either: How I would go about editing
   the menu through the code AND/OR how to disable the custom menu he did and just
   enable the WordPress one if possible. PLEASE any help will be much appreciated.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-navigation-menu-1/#post-4862896)
 * Try reviewing [Navigation_Menus](http://codex.wordpress.org/Navigation_Menus).
 *  Thread Starter [sandygraph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandygraph/)
 * (@sandygraph)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-navigation-menu-1/#post-4862905)
 * Thank you for responding. I did place this piece of php:
 * function register_my_menu() {
    register_nav_menu(‘header-menu’,__( ‘Header Menu’));}
   add_action( ‘init’, ‘register_my_menu’ );
 * to the functions.php file in the theme so that it could register the menu and
   this one:
 * <?php wp_nav_menu( array( ‘theme_location’ => ‘header-menu’ ) ); ?>
 * to the header.php file. However, I think I might have done it wrong. This might
   be a silly question, but how do I know what the name of the menu is? Or is it
   something you just name to keep track of it?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-navigation-menu-1/#post-4862908)
 * Did you try reading the page at the link I posted above?
 *  Thread Starter [sandygraph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandygraph/)
 * (@sandygraph)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-navigation-menu-1/#post-4862925)
 * I did read it and I’m trying my best to understand it but honestly, I don’t.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-navigation-menu-1/#post-4862929)
 * Which part are you having a problem with?
 *  Thread Starter [sandygraph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandygraph/)
 * (@sandygraph)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-navigation-menu-1/#post-4862935)
 * From what I understand, to register a single menu I need to use this:
    <?php 
   register_nav_menu( $location, $description ); ?> However, I don’t know where 
   to place it (my guess is functions.php) or how to know what the location and 
   the description are for the menu that the web developer created in the theme 
   I am using. Or is this supposed to allow me to create one from WordPress?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-navigation-menu-1/#post-4862944)
 * Who developed this theme?
 *  Thread Starter [sandygraph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandygraph/)
 * (@sandygraph)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-navigation-menu-1/#post-4862960)
 * Theme Name: TAG
    Theme URI: [http://www.tintedadvertisinggraphics.com](http://www.tintedadvertisinggraphics.com)
   Description: A custom theme developed for Tinted Advertsing Graphics, in Houston
   TX. Version: 1.0 Author: Rodrigo Del Castillo Author URI: [http://www.r3phlex.com](http://www.r3phlex.com)
   Tags: custom, clean, corporate
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-navigation-menu-1/#post-4862965)
 * Can you not contact them about these issues?
 *  Thread Starter [sandygraph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandygraph/)
 * (@sandygraph)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-navigation-menu-1/#post-4862968)
 * I cannot. I believe the company parted ways with him and he has since disappeared.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-navigation-menu-1/#post-4862971)
 * I’m sorry but there is a limit to the help we can offer for custom themes as 
   we have no idea how they were constructed. I can only suggest that you try [hiring someone](http://jobs.wordpress.net/)
   to look into this for you if you’re finding it too overwhelming..
 *  Thread Starter [sandygraph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandygraph/)
 * (@sandygraph)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-navigation-menu-1/#post-4862976)
 * Thank you

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## Tags

 * [appearance](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/appearance/)
 * [Coding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/coding/)
 * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/)
 * [menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/menu/)
 * [pages](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pages/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-navigation-menu-1/#post-4862976)
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