wordpress 3 – custom menus

Hi Guys!

I am just diggin’ into the menus too, and am having the same issues as ronniesblog.

However, I found Justin’s article to be just what I needed to get this working. Check out his helpful and thorough post on this here:
http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/06/01/goodbye-headaches-hello-menus

Specifically adding this code to the functions.php page:

add_action( 'init', 'register_my_menus' );

function register_my_menus() {
	register_nav_menus(
		array(
			'primary-menu' => __( 'Primary Menu' ),
			'secondary-menu' => __( 'Secondary Menu' ),
			'tertiary-menu' => __( 'Tertiary Menu' )
		)
	);
}

So my final looks like this:

<?php
add_theme_support( 'nav-menus' );
add_action( 'init', 'register_my_menus' );

function register_my_menus() {
	register_nav_menus(
		array(
			'primary-menu' => __( 'Primary Menu' ),
			'secondary-menu' => __( 'Secondary Menu' ),
			'tertiary-menu' => __( 'Tertiary Menu' )
		)
	);
}
?>

Hope that helps 🙂

I’ve been able to get the menus to appear individually with this code in the header.php
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'primary-menu' )); ?>

or

<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'secondary-menu' )); ?>

but I can’t make a drop down menu. How should I tweak it so that the secondary-menu appear on hover?

@1721media: assuming your menu is correctly setup in appearance|menu (ie., with a second level) the “drop down” functionality is a feature of your site styling and maybe some js.

So what you’re saying is that creating drop-down menus is handled exactly the way it was before the custom menu option, i.e., create that functionality yourself with CSS or JS, use a plugin, etc. THAT part is still work-intensive. Yes?

I was hoping that part of the whole process would be handled by the Custom Menus too, but that may very well come later and besides, this new innovation is already an awesome work-saver. 🙂

@esmi: Yes, of course. But you still have to style/create the CSS functionality or grab it from whatever resource you use, yes? (I often save time by relying on Stu Nicholls’ programming genius at cssplay.co.uk instead of slogging through things myself.)

I had found the Shailan Dropdown Menu Widget to be pretty quick and easy – I was hoping I’d still be able to use it. Will that be the case, do you know? Will the usual widgets still work?

ok everyone. I hope someone can help with this.
i have worked out how to get my tertiary menu to appear on my blog pages only (which was my goal)
however, i don’t know how to make it look like my main nav menu (same look and feel. all menu items in a nice row rather than listed one below the other)
is there a tutorial on this anywhere?
thanks!