asteffensen

Hello again.

I finally just put some money into it and “hired” a guy on wpquestions.com to write a custom walker. This should do it. Only downside is that wordpress wraps it into a ul, so there will be two ul’s (menu and sub-menu) inside the menu-ul.

I hope this helps you out!

class My_Custom_Walker extends Walker_Nav_Menu {

  function walk( $elements, $max_depth) {

    global $wp_query;
    $current_page = (int) $wp_query->queried_object_id;

    $tops = array(); // top level menu items
    $subs = array(); // sub menu items

    _wp_menu_item_classes_by_context($elements);

    foreach ($elements as $element) {
      if (0 == $element->menu_item_parent) {
        $tops[] = $element;
        if ($element->object_id == $current_page) {
          $current_parent = $element;
        }
      }
      else
      {
        $subs[] = $element;

        if ($element->object_id == $current_page) {
          $current_child = $element;
        }
      }
    }

    if (!$current_parent)

      $current_parent = $this->get_current_parent_from_sub($elements, $current_child);

    if ($current_parent) {
      $real_subs = array();

      foreach ($subs as $item) {
        if ($item->menu_item_parent == $current_parent->db_id)
          $real_subs[] = $item;
      }
    }

    // show top level elements

    $s = '<li><ul id="tops">';

    foreach ($tops as $item) {
      $s .= $this->display_item($item);
    }

    $s .= "</ul></li>";

    // show sub menu items

    if (sizeof($real_subs) > 0) {
      $s .= "<li><ul id='subs'>";
      foreach ($real_subs as $item) {
        $s .= $this->display_item($item);
      }
      $s .= '</ul></li>';
    }
    return $s;
  }

  // get the parent page when a sub page is the current page

  function get_current_parent_from_sub($elements, $current_child) {

    foreach ($elements as $element) {
      if ($element->db_id == $current_child->menu_item_parent) {
        return $element;
      }
    }
    return false;
  }

  function display_item($item) {

    $i = '';
    $this->start_el( $i, $item, 0, array() );
    $this->end_el( $i, $item, 0, array() );

    return $i;

  }
}