Comments on: Goodbye, headaches. Hello, menus!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:37:32 +0000

Well, this page has a ton of information but I’m not sure if it’s applicable to what I want. I’m hoping someone can respond here to help me out.

I have a header with a main navigation menu and it works fine. I have created a second menu in the appearance/menu section of the WP admin panel.

All I want to do, is have a way to show the second menu, in the BODY portion of specific pages. The header and main menu will still be there, but I want another menu a bit down the page that I can use just to navigate through some pages that are all related so I don’t clutter up my main menu.

Is there a simple way to do this? Am I just overlooking something up above? I’m just not sure how much of the stuff in this post is relevant to what I’m trying to do .

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks!!

By: Eran Mahalu

Eran Mahalu — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:12:40 +0000

Hi and thanks for the tutorial. I have one issue with it, though:
When I define a primary and secondary menu in the functions.php, and then call the secondary menu in a specific page – it shows both menus combined. How do I avoid it?

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:33:50 +0000

To best answer that question, you should read my tutorial on theme functions.php files.

By: nomadone

nomadone — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:41:05 +0000

I know this is an old tut, an excellent one at that most people are linking back to this as one of the original intros. I'm trying to figure out the exact relevance of

add_action( 'init', 'register_my_menus' );
function register_my_menus()

Is it necessary to create and initialize an additional function? What is the purpose of doing so. I see quite a few tutorials recommending this but none explaining exactly why or what the consequences of not doing so could be.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:24:28 +0000

I’m a rookie in theme building for WordPress, so this article really helped me out. Thanks for the clear explanation

By: Ole Henrik

Ole Henrik — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:55:19 +0000

Hi,

I have searched for two days without finding out how I add custom post types to the admin menu screen.

I’m looking through the nav-menu.php file but its hard to figure out how to register a new post type in there.

Please let me know if you have done this before or got any tips at all.

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Customize my Wordpress Navigation Bar | — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:05:11 +0000

[...] Here is a link to a nicely done explanation: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/06/01/goodbye-headaches-hello-menus [...]

By: Shajjad

Shajjad — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:44:37 +0000

Thanks for a great and great post. Its may be more that 5 times that i am visiting your website for adding wp 3.0 navigation for wordpress.
But its first time i am commenting,,
Again thanks for this awesome post.

Shajjad, Bangladesh

By: Nadja von Massow

Nadja von Massow — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:29:10 +0000

Unfortunately, custom menus are messing with any shortcode or plugin that requires a sorting order other than ASC. After eliminating all possible problems and hickups, I found out that only the default menu allows for a certain short code arguments to be accepted.

I.e. various plugins that allow to display / pull in category posts into a page or post, or even template tags that do the same. All sort-orders suddenly default to “ASC” and cannot be overwritten. It only seems to remain fine within category pages themselves.

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:11:00 +0000

I’m new to wordpress……

I’m working on an iMac using MAMP Pro to create and debug my website – I have created a very large “Custom Menu” in WP3. Now that I am moving the site to a test domain so the client can review the new new menu layout – all is well with the look of site (theme) but no custom menus.

I did the export / import tool – am I missing something or do I need to recreate the custom menu and the new server??????

One would think “export site and all of your settings” would be ALL OF YOUR SETTINGS not just some.

Please help!!!!!!!!!!!