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Posted by Jacob Brickell
Jacob Brickell
8,083 Points

How to add a custom menu, made with a plugin, to Genesis child theme.

I am creating my own Genesis child theme from scratch and I'm using the plugin 'Hero Menu' to make the nav bar/menu for the site. Inside the plugin you can apply the menu to a genesis's primary and secondary menus. However, even doing so the menu will not show up on the site?

I can manually add the menu with the following code: <?php echo do_shortcode( '[hmenu id=1]' ) ?>

But I don't know how to get that in Genesis's primary Nav.

Please help, thank you.

1 Answer

Joshua Young
Joshua Young
3,349 Points
Joshua Young
Joshua Young
3,349 Points

Are you properly calling the wp_nav_menu in your theme's files?

The default php for this is:

$defaults = array(
    'theme_location'  => '',
    'menu'            => '',
    'container'       => 'div',
    'container_class' => '',
    'container_id'    => '',
    'menu_class'      => 'menu',
    'menu_id'         => '',
    'echo'            => true,
    'fallback_cb'     => 'wp_page_menu',
    'before'          => '',
    'after'           => '',
    'link_before'     => '',
    'link_after'      => '',
    'items_wrap'      => '<ul id="%1$s" class="%2$s">%3$s</ul>',
    'depth'           => 0,
    'walker'          => ''
);

wp_nav_menu( $defaults );

?>```

You can learn more at:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_nav_menu