What theme are you using? Where did you download it from? Did you create the template for the category archive page? If so, is it a custom page template?
Fixed using:
<?php
$backup_query = $wp_query;
$wp_query = new WP_Query(array('post_type' => 'post'));
wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'guides' ) );
$wp_query = $backup_query;
?>
Seems a bit hacky, and I am not sure what it is doing, or why it works.
Can anyone explain why this is happens? Or if there is a solution by removing the problem that causes it to disappear initially?
Thanks for replying esmi.
I was using underscores (_s), downloaded from:
http://underscores.me/
The posts were displayed on a page called articles which was using a page template. The archive was a slightly edited version of the themes archive.php, but not a template.
Thanks for taking the time, I’ll look into now.
Perfect! Thanks adtowle! Your code fixed my problems with my menu disappearing on the archive by categories! Thanks for posting.
awesome – this sorted my issue as well where my navigation was not appearing on my search page.
hello im using the Chateau Theme and I’m having a problem with the menu disappearing once I click on a sub category. I have “planks” and “articles” as an example…could I be using that same code you showed? please help me, this is really frustrating…
http://www.exercisingcap.com/ (no problem seeing the main navi)
Both of these menu/sub are categories and the main navi disappears:
http://www.exercisingcap.com/articles/
http://www.exercisingcap.com/activities/
Thank you and I hope someone can help me with this…
@adtowle
This solution is great, except that you lose the built-in “current-menu-item, current_page_ancestor, etc.” classes in the process.
So, I just wrapped it in:
if ( is_category() ):
That way you maintain those classes when you’re on a regular page. This whole thing really does seem hacky, but I can’t seem to find any better solution.
where do you put this code?
<?php
$backup_query = $wp_query;
$wp_query = new WP_Query(array('post_type' => 'post'));
wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'guides' ) );
$wp_query = $backup_query;
?>
jcc2150 – you put this code in your header.php file, presumably where you are calling menus. Just replace your
wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'guides' ) ); with the whole section. Obviously, if your menu is not called “guides” you need to change that as well.
What I would love to hear is why this is necessary at all. I ran across this in an _s theme as well and while this fixes missing menus in a archive.php page, I certainly don’t know why. Anyone else have any insight into this?
I did some more research into this and in my case it was a plugin that was causing the menus to stop working on category or archive pages. De-activating Add Tags And Category To Page And Post Types fixed this issue and I can now take out the funky code wrapped around my menu.
This does appear to be an issue with this plugin and custom post types.
http://dineshkarki.com.np/forums/topic/causes-main-menu-to-disappear
Thank you soo much @adtowle for pointing the hacky code, @d.keeling for the category hacking and @beckyddesign for the last point. Thinking about using another plug-in for adding categories to my pages.
Thank you all for the help. I got the menu to show on all pages now, but I still have one problem. The current_page_item class isn’t being added to the current viewed page. Is it only me?
