Calling different navigation menus for different pages

  • ellentolsma

    (@ellentolsma)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi there,

    I’m trying to call different navigation menus for different landing pages but I’m stuck.. Here’s what I’ve done up to now:

    1. Registered secondary navigation in functions.php :

    register_nav_menu('game_nav', THEME_NAME . ' Game Navigation');

    2. Created a dedicated page template for the secondary landing page as page-game.php

    So far, so good. Both the secondary menu & page template show up at the backend of the site. All I need to do now – as far as my understanding goes – is to call the different menus in an else/if statement in header.php which I tried to do like below, but all goes wrong…My site now just shows up with a logo but no nav menu or home page load. Sorry, site is not live yet so link is not helpful..

    <?php if (is_page_template('page.php')){
				wp_nav_menu( array(
				'sort_column' => 'menu_order',
				'container' => false,
				'theme_location'  => 'main_nav',
				'menu_id' => 'nav'));
				}
				elseif (is_page_template('game-page.php')){wp_nav_menu( array(
				'sort_column' => 'menu_order',
				'container' => false,
				'theme_location'  => 'game_nav',
				'menu_id' => 'nav'));
				}
				else {
				echo theme_generator('menu');
				}
				?>

    The original was:

    <?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'sort_column' => 'menu_order', 'container' => false, 'theme_location' =>'main_nav', 'menu_id' => 'nav')); ?>

    Any help would be much appreciated!

    Thanks

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Try:

    <?php if (is_page_template('game-page.php')){
	wp_nav_menu( array(
		'sort_column' => 'menu_order',
		'container' => false,
		'theme_location'  => 'game_nav',
		'menu_id' => 'nav')
	);
}
else {
	wp_nav_menu( array(
		'sort_column' => 'menu_order',
		'container' => false,
		'theme_location'  => 'main_nav',
		'menu_id' => 'nav')
	);
}?>
    Thread Starter ellentolsma

    (@ellentolsma)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks Esmi, getting closer 🙂

    My header + primary navigation menu is back but when I go to the ‘other’ landing page, the secondary navigation menu is not showing. To create a dedicated page template for this landing I basically copied the exact code of page.php but saved & added it to the template under another name: game-page.php. At page attributes WP now allows me to pick either ‘default template’ or ‘Game’ but it’s not connecting that page template to the secondary nav menu for some reason…

    What am I missing..?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Have you reviewed custom page templates?

    Thread Starter ellentolsma

    (@ellentolsma)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    I have – yes. Here’s the code of the custom page template I have made: 

    <?php
/*
Template Name: Game
*/
?>

<?php

$theme_page_type=get_meta_option('theme_page_type');
if($theme_page_type=='2') return require(THEME_DIR . "/template-blog.php");

?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php tf_supersized(); ?>

<section id="main-wrap">

	<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

		<div class="container">

			<?php if(get_meta_option('display_title')!='off'): ?>

			<div class="sixteen columns">

				<h1 id="post-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

			</div>

			<?php endif; ?>

			<?php  $layoutType=get_post_meta(get_the_id(), 'layout-type', true); ?>

			<?php if($layoutType==16 || $layoutType==''): ?>

				<div class="sixteen columns">

					<?php the_content(''); ?>

				</div>

			<?php else: ?>

				<div class="twelve columns">

					<?php the_content(''); ?>

				</div>

				<aside class="four columns">

					<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

				</aside>
				<br class="clear">

			<?php endif; ?>	

		</div>	

	<?php endwhile; ?>		

<?php get_footer(); ?>

    Would it help if I’d call the secondary navigation menu in this page’s .php? Or do I need to (also) create a new function for the secondary navigation on function.php?

    Thanks 🙂

    Thread Starter ellentolsma

    (@ellentolsma)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Still struggling with this one – any suggestions?

    Thanks

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