I've been working for a couple of days with automatic creation of menu upon theme activation in wordpress. I've achieved the creation of menu and it's working as expected, except i want to add sub items to some of menu items. For that moment i have
- Home
- Menu item 1
- Menu item 2
What I'm trying to achieve is:
- Home
- Menu item 1 - Sub item 1, - Sub item 2
- Menu item 2
I've been searching for the whole day without result. Could anybody help?
Here is my code so far:
add_action('after_switch_theme', 'my_after_switch_theme');
add_action('after_setup_theme', 'my_after_setup_theme');
function my_after_setup_theme()
{
register_nav_menus(array(
'primary' => __('Main Menu', ''),
));
}
function my_after_switch_theme()
{
$menu_check = get_option('menu_check');
if (!$menu_check)
{
$primary_menu_items = array(
'Home' => '/',
'Menu item 2' => '/',
'Menu item 3' => '/',
);
generate_nav_menu('Primary Menu', $primary_menu_items, 'primary');
}
}
function generate_nav_menu_item($term_id, $title, $url)
{
wp_update_nav_menu_item($term_id, 0, array(
'menu-item-title' => sprintf(__('%s', 'text_domain'), $title),
'menu-item-url' => home_url('/' . $url),
'menu-item-status' => 'publish'
));
}
function generate_nav_menu($menu_name, $menu_items_array, $location_target)
{
$menu_primary = $menu_name;
wp_create_nav_menu($menu_primary);
$menu_primary_obj = get_term_by('name', $menu_primary, 'nav_menu');
foreach ($menu_items_array as $page_name => $page_location)
{
generate_nav_menu_item($menu_primary_obj->term_id, $page_name, $page_location);
}
$locations_primary_arr = get_theme_mod('nav_menu_locations');
$locations_primary_arr[$location_target] = $menu_primary_obj->term_id;
set_theme_mod('nav_menu_locations', $locations_primary_arr);
//update_option('menu_check', true);
}
I've been working for a couple of days with automatic creation of menu upon theme activation in wordpress. I've achieved the creation of menu and it's working as expected, except i want to add sub items to some of menu items. For that moment i have
- Home
- Menu item 1
- Menu item 2
What I'm trying to achieve is:
- Home
- Menu item 1 - Sub item 1, - Sub item 2
- Menu item 2
I've been searching for the whole day without result. Could anybody help?
Here is my code so far:
add_action('after_switch_theme', 'my_after_switch_theme');
add_action('after_setup_theme', 'my_after_setup_theme');
function my_after_setup_theme()
{
register_nav_menus(array(
'primary' => __('Main Menu', ''),
));
}
function my_after_switch_theme()
{
$menu_check = get_option('menu_check');
if (!$menu_check)
{
$primary_menu_items = array(
'Home' => '/',
'Menu item 2' => '/',
'Menu item 3' => '/',
);
generate_nav_menu('Primary Menu', $primary_menu_items, 'primary');
}
}
function generate_nav_menu_item($term_id, $title, $url)
{
wp_update_nav_menu_item($term_id, 0, array(
'menu-item-title' => sprintf(__('%s', 'text_domain'), $title),
'menu-item-url' => home_url('/' . $url),
'menu-item-status' => 'publish'
));
}
function generate_nav_menu($menu_name, $menu_items_array, $location_target)
{
$menu_primary = $menu_name;
wp_create_nav_menu($menu_primary);
$menu_primary_obj = get_term_by('name', $menu_primary, 'nav_menu');
foreach ($menu_items_array as $page_name => $page_location)
{
generate_nav_menu_item($menu_primary_obj->term_id, $page_name, $page_location);
}
$locations_primary_arr = get_theme_mod('nav_menu_locations');
$locations_primary_arr[$location_target] = $menu_primary_obj->term_id;
set_theme_mod('nav_menu_locations', $locations_primary_arr);
//update_option('menu_check', true);
}
1 Answer
Reset to default 2Looking at the code for wp_update_nav_menu_item() the third parameter is an array of data about the menu item you are trying to update/create. One of the accepted items in that array is menu-item-parent-id. If you pass that key with the value of the ID of the parent menu item as part of the menu item data array then your problem should be solved.
EDIT: I haven't tested this, but in theory, and assuming everything you had before was correct, this will work for you
add_action('after_switch_theme', 'my_after_switch_theme');
add_action('after_setup_theme', 'my_after_setup_theme');
function my_after_setup_theme()
{
register_nav_menus(array(
'primary' => __('Main Menu', ''),
));
}
function my_after_switch_theme()
{
$menu_check = get_option('menu_check');
if (!$menu_check) {
$primary_menu_items = array(
'Home' => array('url' => '/'),
'Menu item 2' => array(
'url' => '/',
'sub-items' => array(
'Sub item 1' => array('url' => '/'),
'Sub item 2' => array('url' => '/')
)),
'Menu item 3' => array('url' => '/'),
);
generate_nav_menu('Primary Menu', $primary_menu_items, 'primary');
}
}
function generate_nav_menu_item($term_id, $title, $data, $parent = false)
{
if (!$data['url']) {
return;
}
$args = array(
'menu-item-title' => sprintf(__('%s', 'text_domain'), $title),
'menu-item-url' => home_url('/' . $data['url']),
'menu-item-status' => 'publish'
);
if ($parent) {
$args['menu-item-parent-id'] = $parent;
}
$item_id = wp_update_nav_menu_item($term_id, 0, $args );
if (!empty($data['sub-items']) && !is_wp_error($item_id)) {
foreach ($data['sub-items'] as $sub_item_title => $item) {
generate_nav_menu_item($term_id, $sub_item_title, $item, $item_id);
}
}
}
function generate_nav_menu($menu_name, $menu_items_array, $location_target)
{
$menu_primary = $menu_name;
wp_create_nav_menu($menu_primary);
$menu_primary_obj = get_term_by('name', $menu_primary, 'nav_menu');
foreach ($menu_items_array as $page_name => $page_data) {
generate_nav_menu_item($menu_primary_obj->term_id, $page_name, $page_data);
}
$locations_primary_arr = get_theme_mod('nav_menu_locations');
$locations_primary_arr[$location_target] = $menu_primary_obj->term_id;
set_theme_mod('nav_menu_locations', $locations_primary_arr);
//update_option('menu_check', true);
}