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lcburns
Member
Hello,
I've read these and other posts regarding the ability to display the menu descriptions on the frontend, but I can't get it to work.:
http://www.kriesi.at/archives/improve-your-wordpress-navigation-menu-output
http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-description-field-in-choices
I'm using the Abundance theme and can add some HTML in the label field, but I know there's a better way to get it to work in this theme (per your posts), but I don't know what I'm missing.
Thanks -
lcburns
Member
Hi,
Yes, I've add the code ( class description_walker extends Walker_Nav_Menu to my functions.php file. I've added descriptive text (they only hover).
This code in the header just duplicates it.
wp_nav_menu( array(
'container' =>false,
'menu_class' => 'nav',
'echo' => true,
'before' => '',
'after' => '',
'link_before' => '',
'link_after' => '',
'depth' => 0,
'walker' => new description_walker())
);
Also, when I follow these instructions, nothing happens:
'Then open your header.php and find this code...
$args = array('theme_location'=>'avia', 'fallback_cb' => 'avia_fallback_menu');
"Place this snippet on top of it."
$args = array('theme_location'=>'avia', 'fallback_cb' => 'avia_fallback_menu', 'walker' =>new description_walker());
Thanks -
lcburns
Member
Hi,
Yes, I'm using 1.5. It's either adding the snippet mentioned above OR this correct?:
wp_nav_menu( array(
'container' =>false,
'menu_class' => 'nav',
'echo' => true,
'before' => '',
'after' => '',
'link_before' => '',
'link_after' => '',
'depth' => 0,
'walker' => new description_walker())
);
Thanks -
Nick
Moderator
Hi,
The label field doesn't accept html , php or js. Just plain text. Write in a few words what you want to say and save and on a 'mouse over' event over the button, a tooltip will pop out showing the label. I just successfully was able to do that on my localhost development box with a new wordpress install,.. There are better ways to do it, I am sure of that, as there are many commercially available solutions on the market, but unfortunately I am not very familiar with them. I think the problem was caused by entry of html into the label field.,
Thanks,
Nick
lcburns
Member
Hi,
Maybe I'm not clear, sorry for that, but it's not the label field. I don't have any html in the label field. I'm speaking of the description field, where you can enter just text, which I have, and it is to appear under the label on the frontend, as seen in this view:
http://www.kriesi.at/archives/improve-your-wordpress-navigation-menu-output
Thanks -
Nick
Moderator
Hi,
Eh... Sorry about that, was helping someone else who was doing that, so I thought maybe it's an epidemic.
Now I understand what you mean, try this. You can remove those blocks, for some reason they didn't work for me since most likely one of the last WordPress updates changed something around.
Add this to Quick CSS in the backend and that's it.
.menu-item a:after { content: attr(title); }Just have to style it I guess, See if that works, and I will take another look at why the old method not working.
Thanks,
Nick
Nick
Moderator
Hi,
It looks like Wordpress update changed something to cause this, since there is lot of interest in this question on Stack Exchange http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/14037/menu-items-description-custom-walker-for-wp-nav-menu . Please take a look at the very last solution offered,
I will return to test some things out,
Thanks,
Nick
Nick
Moderator
Hi,
Have you tried "to inherit all the functionalities of the parent's start_el function and just append the description to $output:"
function start_el(&$output, $item, $depth, $args) {
parent::start_el($output, $item, $depth, $args);
$output .= sprintf('<i>%s</i>', esc_html($item->description));
}Thanks,
Nick
Nick
Moderator
Hi,
I am sorry,But this is something beyond puzzling, and must be something so simple, I am just not seeing it. I am gonna dedicate this entire weekend to solving this problem, because the only two conclusions so far I can draw is either one of the WordPress updates changed something fundamentally or Woo plugin is hijacking the Walker class further along.
Thanks,
Nick
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