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Posted by Tyler Cook
Tyler Cook
871 Points

Coding the Header and Footer Templates: wp_nav_menu issues

I am right in the middle of creating a wordpress theme for a local church and I seem to be having an issue where the function echo strip_slashes(wp_nav_menu($args), '<a>'); returns my menu back with the first item not linked correctly... I end up with code that looks similar to this... 

<div class="span8&gt; &lt;a href=" http:="" localhost="" theagapechurch.tv=""     contact="" "="">Contact
<a href="http://localhost/theagapechurch.tv/learn/">Learn</a>
<a href="http://localhost/theagapechurch.tv/sermons/">Sermons</a>
<a href="http://localhost/theagapechurch.tv/connect/">Connect</a>
<a href="https://agapechurch.cloverdonations.com/a-giving/">Give</a>
</div>

the $args for wp_nav_menu are as follows:

<?php
$args = array(
'menu' => 'main-menu',
'echo' => false
);
echo strip_tags(wp_nav_menu($args), '<a>);
?>

I am completely lost on this and would greatly appreciate some input. Thanks!

1 Answer

Tyler Cook
Tyler Cook
871 Points
Tyler Cook
Tyler Cook
871 Points

I'm not entirely sure why, but the source of the problem was the <nav> container. For some odd reason my code wasn't picking up that there was a </nav> at the bottom. So at that point the <nav> container was open ended which threw the menu off.

Anyway, here is that whole bit of code with the div and nav containers that are working... 

<div class="grid_8">
<nav>
<?php 
$args = array(              
'menu' => 'main-navigation',
'echo'=> false
); 

echo strip_tags (wp_nav_menu($args), '<a>');
?>
</nav>
</div>