Is there a way when using Wordpress’ menu feature to:
a) remove the dropdown and caret functionality from navbar on the parent page
AND
b) keep the parent page on the navbar active when viewing a child page?
Or should I just use some advanced php?
a)
-
to remove the caret remove this line from
nav.php:
https://github.com/roots/roots/blob/master/lib/nav.php#L28 don’t -
not sure if i understand the dropdown question entirely. you don’t wan’t the dropdown to show but you wan’t the ability to add sub-navigation to WP menu? if that is case than just edit this line https://github.com/roots/roots/blob/master/lib/nav.php#L84 in
nav.php. and change the value to 1 (this is the depth of the navigation). in that case you don’t need to do the previous edit because the caret will not be displayed.
b)
- here is a snippet that adds active state to the menu for custom post types: https://github.com/roots/roots-snippets/blob/master/nav-menu-active-fix-custom-post-types.php, you just need to edit the conditional. don’t know how your pages are called so this is a quick example:
function roots_cpt_active_menu($menu) {
if (is_page('child')) {
$menu = str_replace('active', '', $menu);
$menu = str_replace('menu-parent', 'menu-parent active', $menu);
}
return $menu;
}
add_filter('nav_menu_css_class', 'roots_cpt_active_menu', 400);
replace the word child and parent with the slugs of actual pages.
Thanks so much! The second bullet point on ‘A’ did the trick.
Though, is there a way to have this apply to the primary navigation and not secondary?
you can use wp_nav_menu_args filter (http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/wp_nav_menu_args) like so:
function modify_nav_menu_args($args = '') {
if($args['theme_location'] == 'secondary_navigation') {
$args['depth'] = 2;
}
return $args;
}
add_filter('wp_nav_menu_args', 'modify_nav_menu_args');
just change the name secondary_navigation to the name you used to register the menu.