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WordPress WordPress Theme Development Building Out WordPress Navigation The wp_nav_menu Function

Posted by robinbehroozi
robinbehroozi
15,912 Points

Registering a Menu in WordPress

Hey,

So I don't understand the idea of registering a menu in Wordpress. What does registering it mean?

I get that when you want a menu to display somewhere, you use the wp_nav_menu function, and add_theme_support('menus') allows you to use custom menus in your themes. But the idea of registering a menu makes no sense to me.

1 Answer

Collin Berg
Collin Berg
33,471 Points

Registering a menu area is the same as registering a widget area. It basically tells wordpress " Hey look here, my name is primary Nav, if someone is looking for me, I'm here"

Then on the backend, when you go to the menu page, you can assign a menu to that location. sometimes you may have sidebar navigations that wont be in widgets, or utility navs that go above a main navigation. Its for those times that we need to register more menus.