Sliding doors menu for use with WP Custom menus WordPress
Just asking this to save time. Used to add spans and use preg replace. However I want this to work with WP3.1.2 custom menus.
I would like the css for a sliding doors technique for buttons. Usually I use a left image and a right image. I would prefer to not hack the menu building code. One menu will have these buttons and other menus will be completely different so I don't want to affect them.
forgot to add - this will be a horizontal menu.
Answers (1)
Ryan Riatno answers:
Try to use custom walker in you menu. Put this in your theme functions.php
class custom_walker extends Walker_Nav_Menu
{
function start_el(&$output, $item, $depth, $args) {
global $wp_query;
$indent = ( $depth ) ? str_repeat( "\t", $depth ) : '';
$class_names = $value = '';
$classes = empty( $item->classes ) ? array() : (array) $item->classes;
$classes[] = 'menu-item-' . $item->ID;
$class_names = join( ' ', apply_filters( 'nav_menu_css_class', array_filter( $classes ), $item, $args ) );
$class_names = ' class="' . esc_attr( $class_names ) . '"';
$id = apply_filters( 'nav_menu_item_id', 'menu-item-'. $item->ID, $item, $args );
$id = strlen( $id ) ? ' id="' . esc_attr( $id ) . '"' : '';
$output .= $indent . '<li' . $id . $value . $class_names .'><span></span>';
$attributes = ! empty( $item->attr_title ) ? ' title="' . esc_attr( $item->attr_title ) .'"' : '';
$attributes .= ! empty( $item->target ) ? ' target="' . esc_attr( $item->target ) .'"' : '';
$attributes .= ! empty( $item->xfn ) ? ' rel="' . esc_attr( $item->xfn ) .'"' : '';
$attributes .= ! empty( $item->url ) ? ' href="' . esc_attr( $item->url ) .'"' : '';
$item_output = $args->before;
$item_output .= '<a'. $attributes .'>';
$item_output .= $args->link_before . apply_filters( 'the_title', $item->title, $item->ID ) . $args->link_after;
$item_output .= '</a>';
$item_output .= $args->after;
$output .= apply_filters( 'walker_nav_menu_start_el', $item_output, $item, $depth, $args );
}
}
wp_nav_menu( array(
'container' =>false,
'menu_class' => 'nav',
'echo' => true,
'before' => '',
'after' => '',
'link_before' => '',
'link_after' => '',
'depth' => 0,
'walker' => new custom_walker())
);
And you can work with the css something like this :
.nav li span {
background:url(images/menu-left.png) no-repeat left;
}
Basically it would output :
<ul class="menu-main">
<li><span></span><a href="#">Home</a></li>
</ul>
Notice the "<span></span>" after <li>
Connie Taylor comments:
does this go into the functions as well? not sure if it was a continuation of the other code box:
wp_nav_menu( array(
'container' =>false,
'menu_class' => 'nav',
'echo' => true,
'before' => '',
'after' => '',
'link_before' => '',
'link_after' => '',
'depth' => 0,
'walker' => new custom_walker())
);
Connie Taylor comments:
I get this error after adding it to my functions
<blockquote>Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class custom_walker in /home2/brandmag/public_html/lakota/wp-content/themes/lakota/functions.php on line 99
</blockquote>
Connie Taylor comments:
found my error in the above but I must be doing something wrong.
This is putting a new menu in - not affecting the existing wp custom menus. In addition the new menu is appearing before the header doctype code.
Ryan Riatno comments:
Yes, it goes to "functions.php". Try to rename the class to something else like "sliding_door_custom_walker"
Connie Taylor comments:
This is only adding a "new" menu at the top of the code <strong>above</strong> the html and head tags. The new menu has the span tags but it does not affect the existing menu in the register menus area.
I will have to search for another option.
Connie Taylor comments:
I found my own answer. Using
wp_nav_menu( array( 'link_before' => '<span>', 'link_after' => '</span>'
Then it was easy to style.