Showing menu outside of get_header

The formatting is done with your theme’s stylesheet (style.css). Without a link to a page demonstrating the problem, no one will be able to offer much in the way of assistance.

wp_nav_menu() is fine but you need to wrap it in a div for the styles to be assigned.

I have a child theme with three menus you may want to download the theme to see how it works.

It uses get_template_part() to insert the menu, the new menus have their own styles in style.css (custom-styles.css in the download), if you are just moving the menu you would not need your own menu styles.

Then the menu is in a file called navigation-top.php, and is called like this.

<?php get_template_part('navigation','top'); ?>

Inside navigation-top.php we have this line notice the container_id:

<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'top','container_id' => 'top-menu', 'fallback_cb' => '') ); ?>

If it was twenty eleven div ‘access’ we could have

<div id="access">
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'primary' ) ); ?>
</div>

HTH

David

Thanks Digital Raindrops,

I appreciate your prompt reply.

Do you know where the function get_header is actually located?

If I could see how this loads the menu I could probably figure out how to do what I want to do.

Thanks again

Bruce

Aha!

This did it.

<div id=”access”>
<?php wp_nav_menu ()?>
</div>

Wrapping it a div worked, just using the same styles as the normal menu. I can easily modify it by making my own id (based on id – access) in the style sheets.

Thanks again David ??

Aha!

This did it.

Great can you mark this topic resolved please.

To answer the other question:
get_header() is a WordPress function that looks in the themes folder for a file called header.php this is where the menu call will be.

If we wanted a different header file for a page type, lets say in our single post view we wanted to add a new Quote line from a custom field’ section, and remove the header image.

We would open header php and save it as header-single.php, make our changes in header-single.php

In single,php we would change get_header() to get_header_(‘single’), and our post single page view would have our new header.

Likewise get_footer() looks for footer.php

HTH

David