Not Displaying 2nd level – split?

Is there an online version of your problem that i can have a look at? if not could you give me a full example of your menu and the split menu settings you have (so i can try and recreate the problem).

e.g.

- Page 1(page)
 | - Page 1.1(Page)
 | - - Page 1.1.1 (Page)
- Posts (post archive)
- Page 2(page)

The bullet points will be down to the themes css, which you should be able to modify.

Sure, the page is here cookie.catablog.cc

On the Menu there is Animals, then it will drop down to the Subset of Aquatic, Reptile, Winged and Zoo. Within each of these categories, there are the actual animals, but they are not displaying.

I’m not a coder so I’m not at all sure that I have the code set correctly. I’ll paste here what I have put in my functions.php (I’m using PinIt child theme in Genesis).

$args = array(
	'menu' => 'Primary_Navigation',	// the menu name
	'walker' => new JC_Submenu_Nav_Walker(array(
		'hierarchical' => 1,
		'menu_start' => 0,	// set this to the depth you wish to start at
		'menu_depth' => 5,	// set this to how many levels you require
		'show_parent' => 0,
		'split_menu' => true
	))
);

wp_nav_menu( $args );

do_action( 'jcs/split_menu' , $menu, $args = array() );

I thought the bullets would be CSS, but before I went digging around, I wanted to confirm that it wasn’t something in the code creating them.

I can send you a temp log-in if necessary. The site is in infancy and is still being developed, so lots can change; however, I won’t change anything on the menu until I get this issue sorted.

Thanks for your help!

Hi, i have just had a look at the cookie website, if you inspect the menu with your browser “press f12” you can see that the main menu is displaying a 3rd level (Alligator, crab, fish …) which means that the theme is not displaying the 3rd level of menu (does the theme by default show a 3rd level of menu), if so you may need to add the classes to the menu using some extra filters.

A split menu is used to display a section of a menu not in the main navigation. For your main menu you should only have (as this is not a split menu ):

$args = array(
	'menu' => 'Primary_Navigation',	// the menu name
	'walker' => new JC_Submenu_Nav_Walker()
);

wp_nav_menu( $args );

The action jcs/split_menu can be called from any location of your theme where you would like to display a dynamic section of the menu relating to the currently active menu item.

An example of a split menu can be seen down the right hand column on my website you will notice a menu section titled JC Submenu with a few links below https://jamescollings.co.uk/plugins/jc-submenu/ but on another page https://jamescollings.co.uk/plugins/jc-importer/ you will see a section titled JC Importer with different links below. This is using a split menu to display different parts of the menu in relation to the chosen page from within the sidebar.

No, the theme isn’t set at 2 levels. Before I found your plugin, I had created a 3 deep menu inside the theme and it displayed 3 levels fine. I would have just gone with that, but I saw the huge benefit of it updating automatically when I added new categories.

I did see where the code is there but it is just not displaying. I’ll change the code to what you have given and if no change, I’ll ask the Theme author for his thoughts. Like you, he is very responsive and helpful and will not mind taking a look at what is going on.

I didn’t really think I needed the split menu, but when I couldn’t get it to work, I started grasping at straws and trying everything! ?? And, while I promise I did read your documentation and it said exactly what you have said in your response to me, I am just now grasping the premise….duhhh…sorry (my only excuse is that I’m old ?? LOL

Thank you again – when I get it figured out, I’ll post here in that it might help someone else along the way.

Hi,

That code will not fix the 3rd level not showing up, to do this you will need to find out how the menu looks with out the plugin, and add the relevant classes to the menu levels and items. Is there a demo of the base theme that i can look at and try and help you? or can you disable the jc-submenu plugin and let me see what a 3rd level looks like.

Cheers
James

I found a demo of your theme which is called pin-it, while messing around with the css each menu item has to have the class “menu-item” which will fix the bullet before the menu item and the third level.

You could try adding the class to the populated items by adding the following to your themes functions.php file:

add_action( 'jcs/item_classes', 'jc_edit_item_classes', 10, 3 );
function jc_edit_item_classes($classes, $item_id, $item_type){

    $classes[] = 'menu-item';
    return $classes;
}

You are so absolutely wonderful! That worked perfectly!

Thank you so so much for your help and your time!