wp_nav_menu not parsing properly..?

  • Resolved wileycoyote78

    (@wileycoyote78)


    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    Hoping for some advice from the awesome WP community.

    On my local server, I have WP 6.02 installed, and everything works great. On my online “staging” site, I also have 6.02 installed, but something ain’t working right with wp_nav_menu(). Here is the relevant code in my header.php file:

    <div id='nav_menu-container' class='nav_menu-container'>
<?php
if ( has_nav_menu( 'main' )) {
  wp_nav_menu( [ 
   'menu' => 'Main Menu',
   'theme_location' => 'top',
   'container' => 'nav',
   'container_id' => 'main_menu-container',
   'menu_id' => 'main_menu',
   'menu_class' => 'main_menu',
  ]);
}
americancyanide_login_menu();
?>
</div>

    I have assigned a class to the nav container of main_menu-container. The generated UL is then supposed to get the ‘main_menu’ id and class. Again, on my local server, works perfect, but on my online version, the main_menu class is put on the nav container, thus rendering the CSS rules useless.

    Have I forgotten to do something?

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by wileycoyote78. Reason: Removed the tabs from the code sample so scrolling to view is not necessary

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  • Hi @wileycoyote78,

    I investigated the issue locally, and I was able to reproduce it.

    It happens if the theme location menu isn’t selected through the WordPress dashboard Menu page. In our case, the top menu (defined in the wp_nav_menu function arguments: 'theme_location' => 'top',).

    Here are some helpful screenshots:

    Please set the top location to the main menu as shown on https://snipboard.io/NeyiqV.jpg (the bottom display location checkbox) and let us know if it works.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by aatanasov.
    Thread Starter wileycoyote78

    (@wileycoyote78)

    Never mind. In looking into the issue some more I saw some folks stating they had a similar problem when their WP was upgraded to 6.02 and said they had to delete the menu and build it again.

    I didn’t think this would work because I did not create the menu that long ago.

    In any case, I tried it, and everything is peachy keen.

    Thread Starter wileycoyote78

    (@wileycoyote78)

    Hi @aatanasov

    I deleted the menu and rebuilt it in the admin panel, and it seems to have corrected the problem. The interesting thing is, the menu was working before. I updated some style rules locally and uploaded the changes to my staging site tonight and that is when it broke. I did not change anything in the menu save the class names.

    I do appreciate you looking into it. I will keep the theme_location tip in mind should I run into the issue again.

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