Title: Weird Menu Issue
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Weird Menu Issue

 *  Resolved [teeray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teeray/)
 * (@teeray)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-menu-issue/)
 * Wondering if anyone can offer any insight into a weird menu issue I’m having.
 * On certain pages, instead of listing the page name, the menu is actually showing
   a string that’s related to the site name, but isn’t the site name. I can’t even
   work out where it’s being generated from.
 * No matter if I change the menu, or replace it, or delete it and create a new 
   one, it’s doing this on certain pages. No differences on which template is used.
 * Has anyone ever encountered anything like this?

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 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-menu-issue/#post-5100079)
 * Please provide us a link to your site. A text description does little in helping
   us help you.
 *  Thread Starter [teeray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teeray/)
 * (@teeray)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-menu-issue/#post-5100088)
 * Completely understood. I was hoping I’d get away with describing the issue really,
   really well so as not to compromise the project. In the end, though, troubleshooting
   this issue is the most important thing.
 * Site is: [http://unfffp.volumesquared.com](http://unfffp.volumesquared.com)
    
   Pages where occurring: [http://unfffp.volumesquared.com/about/unff/](http://unfffp.volumesquared.com/about/unff/)(
   for instance)
 * You’ll notice it occurring on the footer menu, and I just realized that the issue
   is that it is echoing the page name for the page, not the link name that has 
   been set in the menu (each item on the menu is an external link)
 * Site has buddypress, events manager and WPML installed among other (less major)
   plugins.
 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-menu-issue/#post-5100100)
 * I’m not seeing this issue with the footer menu items not being correct. I was
   clicking around on a few of the pages, but can’t seem to find a page where its
   happening.
 * It looks like the footer menu is working correctly for me. It is very possible
   there is a conflict with WPML or something similar. I’ve had issues in the past
   with that plugin on a few client sites.
 *  Thread Starter [teeray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teeray/)
 * (@teeray)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-menu-issue/#post-5100103)
 * Hmm. Not even on the example link I showed you?
 * [http://unfffp.volumesquared.com/about/unff/](http://unfffp.volumesquared.com/about/unff/)
 * I should point out, the footer menu is at the VERY bottom. Where it says Copyright
   | Terms of Use, etc
 * Could be that WPML is the culprit, but unfortunately I can’t test as uninstalling
   breaks the site. Sigh.
 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-menu-issue/#post-5100107)
 * Is there something wrong on this page or in the footer?? I could just be missing
   it (screenshot below)
 * [https://www.diigo.com/item/image/4s1ed/dxan](https://www.diigo.com/item/image/4s1ed/dxan)
 *  Thread Starter [teeray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teeray/)
 * (@teeray)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-menu-issue/#post-5100151)
 * Yes. See actually under the yellow section of the footer – where the copyright
   statement generally would be – there is a line of links?
 * On all other pages, these links are different items. On this page (and some others),
   it is a repetition of the page name for each link. The links themselves are correct,
   however the link titles are not.
 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-menu-issue/#post-5100188)
 * Ah I completely missed that, sorry about that.
 * How are you creating those items? Custom function, menu item?
 *  Thread Starter [teeray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teeray/)
 * (@teeray)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-menu-issue/#post-5100251)
 * It’s a WP Menu – register_nav_menus
 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-menu-issue/#post-5100253)
 * And have you set it up to display on the front end, or was all of this set up
   by the theme author?
 * I only ask because it looks like a variable is being re-used to generate those
   links at the bottom but its conflicting with the current page title. So instead
   of pulling the correct page titles within a loop, its just pulling the page title
   from the currently viewed page.
 *  Thread Starter [teeray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teeray/)
 * (@teeray)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-menu-issue/#post-5100449)
 * Thanks for your help with this. I am the theme author, so I have set up the menu
   using register_nav_menus as is usual.
 * I have been exploring whether this is a conflict with Events Manager, as they
   note on their site that sometimes nav menus get rewritten on events pages. However
   this is not an events page – and following their instructions in settings seems
   to have done nothing.
 * Any other troubleshooting suggestions are most welcome and incredibly appreciated!
 *  Thread Starter [teeray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teeray/)
 * (@teeray)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-menu-issue/#post-5100450)
 * Oh, and needless to say that the menu was set up by the theme author!
 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-menu-issue/#post-5100451)
 * Can you provide the code you are using the generate the links in the footer? 
   Maybe use paste bin because I’m sure it’s semi-long.
 *  Thread Starter [teeray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teeray/)
 * (@teeray)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-menu-issue/#post-5100455)
 * Not very long at all.
 * in functions.php:
 *     ```
       register_nav_menus(
       array( 'main-menu' => __( 'Main Menu', 'UNFFFP'),
              'news-menu' => __( 'News Menu', 'UNFFFP'),
              'events-menu' => __( 'Events Menu', 'UNFFFP'),
       	   'footer-menu' => __('Footer Menu', 'UNFFFP')
       	   )
              );
       }
       ```
   
 * in footer.php:
 *     ```
       <?php wp_nav_menu( array(
       					 'theme_location' => 'footer-menu',
       					 'container' => '',
       					 'menu_class' => 'footer-nav',
       					 'after' => '',
       					 'depth' => 1
       					 ) ); ?>
       ```
   

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-menu-issue/#post-5100455)
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