Saves a ton of time and works great in 4.9 too

I love this plugin! I have a variety of child menu items and they are not necessarily child pages. This plugin with a widget allows me to show just the child menu items of the current parent, and if there are no children, it won’t output — it’s perfect.

I just donated in the hopes that the developer will update the plugin so it is fresh and more people use it.

Here’s my settings:

I am getting the current parent title by using the following php:

//* Get the menu parent id
//* https://pateason.com/wordpress-menu-top-most-parent-id/
function get_menu_parent_id( $menu_name ){
    
    if( ! isset( $menu_name ) ) :
      return "No menu name provided in arguments";
    endif;
    
    $menu_slug      = $menu_name;
    $locations      = get_nav_menu_locations();
    $menu_id        = $locations[$menu_slug];
    $post_id        = get_the_ID();
    $menu_items     = wp_get_nav_menu_items($menu_id);
    $parent_item_id = wp_filter_object_list($menu_items,array('object_id'=>$post_id),'and','menu_item_parent');
    $parent_item_id = array_shift( $parent_item_id );
    
    function check_for_parent( $parent_item_id, $menu_items ){
     
      $parent_post_id = wp_filter_object_list( $menu_items, array( 'ID' => $parent_item_id ), 'and', 'object_id' );
      $parent_item_id = wp_filter_object_list($menu_items,array('ID'=>$parent_item_id),'and','menu_item_parent');
      $parent_item_id = array_shift( $parent_item_id );
     
     if( $parent_item_id == '0' ) :
       
        $parent_post_id = array_shift($parent_post_id);
        return $parent_post_id;
      
      else:
       
        return check_for_parent( $parent_item_id, $menu_items );
     
      endif;
      
    } //check_for_parent();
    
    if( !empty( $parent_item_id ) ) :
      return check_for_parent($parent_item_id,$menu_items);
    else:
      return $post_id;
    endif;
}

//get Menu label by ID post or parentID from get_menu_parent_ID();
//https://stackoverflow.com/a/26591562/1004312
function get_menu_parent_by_id( $post_id, $menu ) {

    $menu_title = '';
    $nav = wp_get_nav_menu_items( $menu );

    foreach ( $nav as $item ) :

        if ( $post_id == $item->object_id ) :
            $menu_title = $item->post_title;
            break;
        endif;

    endforeach;

    return ( $menu_title !== '' ) ? $menu_title : get_the_title( $post_id );

}

//* allow shortcode in widget title
add_filter( 'widget_title', 'do_shortcode' );

//* menu parent title shortcode
function child_theme_parent_menu_title() {
 
 	$menu_location  = 'primary';
 	$menu_parent_id = get_menu_parent_id( $menu_location );
	return get_menu_parent_by_id( $menu_parent_id, $menu_location );

} 
add_shortcode( 'parent-menu-title', 'child_theme_parent_menu_title' );

• This topic was modified 7 years ago by Christina.