# Secondary Nav Menu on page?

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/secondary-nav-menu-on-page/395
**Category:** uncategorized
**Created:** 2013-09-23T07:56:09Z
**Posts:** 3

## Post 1 by @gfaw20071 — 2013-09-23T07:56:09Z

Hi all,

I am trying to do something like this, roughly:

```
<main navigation>
<jumbotron>
<subnavigation>
<page structure of subnavigation>
```

What I did so far is **creating a base-page-custom.php** , a corresponding **page-custom.php** and a corresponding **templates/header-custom.php** which is correctly referenced in the **page-custom.php**.

I also created respective pages and a menu, which I gave the name **Custom Navigation** and changed the name respectively in **templates/header-custom.php**.

Unfortunately, the secondary nav-menu doesn’t show. When I check the sourcecode with firebug, it only shows this:

```
<nav class="nav-main" role="navigation"> </nav>
```

What did I miss or am I doing wrong?

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## Post 2 by @Foxaii — 2013-09-23T14:47:05Z

I quickly covered secondary menus in [another thread](http://discourse.roots.io/t/tutorial-roots-theme-carve-job/64/3#). Did you follow the same [process to create the secondary menu](http://discourse.roots.io/t/tutorial-roots-theme-carve-job/64/8#) and select the menu in the WordPress dash?

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## Post 3 by @gfaw20071 — 2013-09-23T15:13:18Z

Well yes and no. I actually modified init.php - without result before.

But - when I followed the process again I found out that I forgot to check the secondary menu in the backend as such.

So after I did that, the menu now shows.

Still I need to figure out how to show the page content of the child pages below the secondary menu without loosing the content of the parent page above the secondary menu.