Title: Replace existing menu with ShiftNav
Last modified: August 22, 2016
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# Replace existing menu with ShiftNav
* Resolved [triplemoons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/triplemoons/)
* (@triplemoons)
* [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-existing-menu-with-shiftnav/)
* Is it possible to replace the default theme navigation with the toggle rather
then having the toggle bar? I couldn’t locate anything about this.
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/shiftnav-responsive-mobile-menu/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shiftnav-responsive-mobile-menu/)
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* Thread Starter [triplemoons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/triplemoons/)
* (@triplemoons)
* [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-existing-menu-with-shiftnav/#post-5581065)
* For anyone else looking for a solution to this, I was successful by using…
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* …in the Navigation Label.
* Though I am still left with a problem on the mobile view that I have to sort
out if their isn’t a better way to do this.
* The advanced content features in the Pro version is enough to make me buy the
Pro version for the nominal fee, but I would still like to know if their is a
better solution to accomplish what I’m looking for.
* Plugin Author [sevenspark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sevenspark/)
* (@sevenspark)
* [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-existing-menu-with-shiftnav/#post-5581156)
* Hi triplemoons,
* You can disable the toggle bar in the Control Panel.
* Then you can place a [Custom Toggle](http://sevenspark.com/docs/shiftnav-toggles)
wherever you like in your theme to trigger ShiftNav. I would not recommend placing
it inside a menu item, as I believe you’ll end up with nested anchors, which
could cause issues.
* You would then remove your theme’s menu if you like by removing that code from
the header template.
* Note you’d make those changes in a child theme in order to preserve them for
next time you update the theme; most likely you’d be overriding the header.php
* There isn’t a way to automatically do this, as it requires adding and removing
code in a specific location in a theme template.
* Hope that helps!
* Chris
* Thread Starter [triplemoons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/triplemoons/)
* (@triplemoons)
* [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-existing-menu-with-shiftnav/#post-5581158)
* Yes, I know I can disable the toggle bar in the settings. But that doesn’t replace
the default menu with ShiftNav which is what I want to do. I was looking for
a solution that didn’t require modifying the theme.
* Plugin Author [sevenspark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sevenspark/)
* (@sevenspark)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-existing-menu-with-shiftnav/#post-5581208)
* Right, I was saying it was a 3-step process (1) disable toggle, (2) insert custom
toggle, (3) remove theme menu
* If you wanted to avoid editing the template, I suppose you could do something
clever like this and short-circuit the menu output in the child theme:
* ```
add_filter( 'pre_wp_nav_menu' , 'replace_menu_with_shiftnav' );
function replace_menu_with_shiftnav( $nav_menu , $args ){
return '';
}
```
* That code replaces all menus with a ShiftNav toggle. Note that you’d want to
add some conditional logic in there if you have more than one wp_nav_menu call
in your theme.
* Hope that helps 🙂
* Chris
* Thread Starter [triplemoons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/triplemoons/)
* (@triplemoons)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-existing-menu-with-shiftnav/#post-5581212)
* Plugin is throwing an error.
* `[16-Dec-2014 22:17:45 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: id in /xxxx/xxxxxxx/
public_html/wp-content/plugins/shiftnav-pro/includes/functions.php on line 404`
* Plugin Author [sevenspark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sevenspark/)
* (@sevenspark)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-existing-menu-with-shiftnav/#post-5581278)
* Hi triplemoons,
* That’s a warning that occurred in the Pro beta – nothing to worry about (it won’t
break anything), but please download the latest beta which resolves it: shiftnav-
pro-1.2.1-beta-3.zip – thanks!
* Also, regarding that PHP snippet I provided above, I’d suggest making it more
robust like this:
* ```
//Replace menu with shiftnav toggle
add_filter( 'pre_wp_nav_menu' , 'replace_menu_with_shiftnav' , 50 , 2 );
function replace_menu_with_shiftnav( $nav_menu , $args ){
if( $args->theme_location == 'primary' ){
return ' Menu';
}
return $nav_menu;
}
```
* Replace `primary` with your own theme location to make sure the code only targets
the specific menu you’re looking to replace.
* Looks like you’re using the Pro version now? Please post your questions in the
[Support Forum](http://sevenspark.com/support) to receive support for the Pro
version – thanks! 🙂
* Best,
* Chris
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