Turning HTML page to wordpress: Trouble Creating Menus

Comments is PHP ae not /* stuff */

This is wrong:

<?php /* Start add our second page menu */ ?>

This was right:

// This theme uses wp_nav_menu() in two location. <em>(nothing else on this line)</em>

Ok, now i am not a newbie to this. but this did not explain what i was asking for and if it did, idt you explained it well….

Personally, I’d use the WP generated code and move your CSS to it – using the classes and tags that are already there which are likely to be sufficient.

This is wrong:
This was right:

The right and wrong way to add ‘comments’ in PHP…

Rookie error ??

Wrong:
/* Start add our second page menu */
Right:
// This theme uses wp_nav_menu() in two location.

Since the issue is with your menu and the wrong code is in that part of your PHP, perhaps that is the issue?

I wasnt asking what code was right, wrong, whatever.

My page was fully coded as an HTML website and I am adapting it to wordpress. I posted the HTML coding and asked how do I transform that into a menu’s code to keep my styling.

The PHP I posted I said I got from a copy and paste menu’s “tutorial”. I’m asking what in that PHP code do I edit to make sure my style settings in my HTML is showed in the menu and is consistent with the style of the theme and my style.css file.

THESE ARE THE HTML CODING I CURRENTLY HAVE AND USE ON THE PAGE. THEY ARE JUST PERFECTLY FINE! I NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO CODE THEM SO WHEN I ADD A MENU, IT SHOWS IN THIS STYLE

top nav (horizontal)

<div id="menu">

<ul id="ddmenu">

    <li class="page_item page-item-41"><a class="loftmenu" href="/site">Home</a>

    	 			</li>                <li><img src="wp-content/themes/TheLoft/img/arrow_down.gif" alt="TheLoft"/></li>

						<li class="page_item page-item-74"><a class="loftmenu" href="#">About</a>

						<ul class="menu2"><li class="page_item page-item-106"><a href="#">Nu~Dé</a></li>
<li class="page_item page-item-108"><a href="#">J~Lyte</a></li>
<li class="page_item page-item-108"><a href="#">Briscoekidd</a></li>
</ul></li>
	 					<li class="page_item page-item-90"><a class="loftmenu" href="#">Music</a>

    	 			</li><li class="page_item page-item-99"><a class="loftmenu" href="#">Contact</a>

    	 			</li> 

</ul>

</div>

</div>

bottom nav (vertical)

<div style="float: left;">
    <div id="pages">
    <ul id="nav">
    <li class="page_item page-item-41"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li class="page_item page-item-74"><a href="#">About</a></li>
<li class="page_item page-item-90"><a href="#">Music</a></li>
<li class="page_item page-item-90"><a href="#">Shop</a></li>
<li class="page_item page-item-99"><a href="#">Contact</a></li>

    </ul>
    </div>

</div>

I read what you wrote:

My Navigation-2.php (bottom/secondary menu)

And now the comment error. Please don’t shout. You need to fix the PHP comment error.

I have no idea what “I NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO CODE THEM SO WHEN I ADD A MENU, IT SHOWS IN THIS STYLE” means.

Add a menu where?

I only put in caps to set apart, rather than just a new paragraph (so you know the key-part of my post), not to “shout.”

And i do not get any errors with those PHP codes. They are pretty irrelevant to me other than knowing it is the base code I need to show the menu’s on my page.

MAIN POINT: I’m trying to figure out how to STYLE the menus. I have them styled how I want in HTML, but with PHP I have no idea how to style them. I’m trying to take my styling from my HTML and apply it to the PHP code so it comes out in the correct font, color, etc. thats what “I NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO CODE THEM SO WHEN I ADD A MENU, IT SHOWS IN THIS STYLE” means!

I have the option to add menus in my theme functions. So I can create menus via wordpress. The navigation-1.php and such I posted is how I’ve been putting them in place. But they are not styled how I want them to by styled. The HTML I posted was the original coding when I made the full page in HTML. I need my PHP code to be styled that way. I dont understand the proper coding for the styling attributes in the PHP

All caps really isn’t cool here… and per the question, did you read what I posted above?

@wpyogi I didn’t see your post. sorry. but what do you mean by the WP generated code? My WP “lingo” isn’t up to par, i guess.

[moderated – please respect the few rules here ]

So please excuse me if I offend anyone. But I really dont see the issue.

If you want to use WP menu functionality, the easiest way to add your styles is to change your existing CSS so that it works on the WP-generated classes in the menu items. You’re trying to work backwards and that’s much harder and/or impossible.