How to Add Custom Navigation Menus in WordPress 3.0 Themes

This is just great!

Yeah! its a nice tutorial for me! I am very new to WP! Thanks

I need help.

Follow all steps, but in Apparance Panel the option menu not enable.

When select other theme working.

How do enable option menu?

Thanks.

Paulo Neves

I have followed the instructions and this post and the post here (http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/adding-a-second-menu-to-the-twenty-ten-theme/), and figured out how to get my CSS to make the menu appear correctly, but the child items (sub menu items) are not appearing. I have them set up correctly in the menus editor, but on the site they do not show. They are not hidden by CSS because they are not there in the source code of the page.

Any ideas why my menu sub-items are not showing?

Hi,

I have added the custom menu in top navigation but want to know how can I active the “Current Page Class”.

I’m using WordPress 3.2

Thanks

Gourab

Thank you! Love how this is all dynamic so the client can edit if needed, plus able to state which is the current page and apply hover effect! EXACTLY what I was looking for!

I have tried this many times. I have an old wordpress theme. So old I'm not even sure what version of wrodpress it was written for. Anyway, I can get the functions part to work. I can save the correct menu. I can put the code into other parts of my website, say the footer, although it displays as a hierarchy list and not horizontally.

Won't display in the top nav menu. Do I need a new theme or is it possible to edit my current theme to allow the new menu function?

Thanks in advance. The website is www.asharperrazor.com

I implemented this with NO problems-thank you! I took the "nav menu" code and put it in the div where my client's theme was calling the list of pages. I basically replaced it with your code from above and uploaded it, and the css kept it in the same style. It looks great and functions perfectly. AWESOME!

Great post - thank you!

I have implemented as above and my menu items are showing on site only problem is that each page is empty?!

any ideas?

Quick and dirty - the way I like my code snippets. Thanks a bunch.

I have created custom navigation menus a couple of times. What is weird is that after I create and save them, they appear for a while and then the navigation bar returns to 2 tabs only as if the settings are automatically overwritten. On sites with the same template were I never created a custom bar they display correctly.
Any ideas?

You can define custom classes to each navigation, and then add image in the background. You can even use CSS (text-indent) property to get rid of the Menu text if you want.
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I have a question on nav menu,
is there any way to add the image to the list of navigation menus..

Thanks,
Ram

Can you add code to make it look more presentable (fonts, buttons, size, etc)? If so, can you give me an example and where to put this code? Thanks!

Question about the menu handling.

I have a menu that is right aligned, so the menu items show up in reverse order.

Is there a way to sort the menu_order in REVERSE?

so: sort_column' => 'menu_order' would have something added to reverse the order.

Thanks!

Have followed instructions but after creating menus and adding appropriate categories to use, I can't see them in my nav bar - any ideas what I have done wrong?

You also need to add this to your functions.php file in order for you to use the menus

register_nav_menus( array(
'primary' => __( 'Main Navigation', 'twentyten' ),
) );

i'm soooo not following ... could u be more clear where i would plug this code (add_theme_support( 'menus' );) into the functions.php file?

i'm totally lost

I added add_theme_support( 'menus' );
and saw no option in the admin panel [where do i look?] I'm using intrepidity theme. I'm a noob, so it might be right in front of me and don't know the difference. I have a website that has a WP inside it and want to be able to navigate out of WP and back to my main URL. All I need is a "Home" nav link.
Thanks in advance.

friend you have an awesome site and I am glad i've found it!
I was killing my head to figure how to add the costum menu and it was easy after i've seen this! Simply amazing.

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Best regards and keep the good work mate!

Can any of you tell me how to add support for multiple menus in the functions php file. I want to include two set's of menus

Just to let you know but the following:

"add_theme_support( 'nav-menus' );"

Has changed in the final release to:

"add_theme_support( 'menus' );"

Thanks! :)

Great. Just what I was looking for. How do you add the menu slug to the function?

Thanks for this - I'm currently playing around with the new menu system - it's a great additional feature that's going to make things so much easier. I develop themes and get quite a few support requests from people wanting to create custom navigation sections on their site - the new menus should hopefully help to simply things a lot (especially for people with little WordPress experience).

I am also testing WordPress 3.0 Beta, now I can play arround with menu...Thanks!