Twenty Fourteen Theme: Top Primary Menu Won't Go Away

FWIW: I’ve verified the Menu:Location settings in the customizer and the main dashboard (Appearance:Menus).

TIA,
Eric Pretorious

you could possibly use either CSS to hide the primary menu, or edit/remove the code for the primary menu in header.php in a child theme.

this is the relevant code section:

<nav id="primary-navigation" class="site-navigation primary-navigation" role="navigation">
				<h1 class="menu-toggle"><?php _e( 'Primary Menu', 'twentyfourteen' ); ?></h1>
				<a class="screen-reader-text skip-link" href="#content"><?php _e( 'Skip to content', 'twentyfourteen' ); ?></a>
				<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'primary', 'menu_class' => 'nav-menu' ) ); ?>
			</nav>

CSS to hide the menu:

.primary-navigation { display: none; }

Thanks, Michael – That was absolutely the shortest distance from the question to the answer!

To expand upon the directions that you’ve provided: Directly below Line #974 of the CSS file $DOC_ROOT/wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/style.css add the declaration “display: none;”. The revised CSS class declaration will look like this…

.primary-navigation {
        display: none;
        -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
        -moz-box-sizing:    border-box;
        box-sizing:         border-box;
        font-size: 14px;
        padding-top: 24px;
}

This will render the ‘primary-navigation’ class impotent and the navigation in the upper-righthand corner will no longer display.

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

FWIW: I read the excellent WPMUDEV tutorial “How to Create a WordPress Child Theme” and created a child theme (“Twenty Fourteen Child”) to store these customizations and others. ??

.primary-navigation {
        display: none;
}

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-create-wordpress-child-theme/