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Maximiliane Quel
Courses Plus Student 55,489 PointsTo add or not add theme support
Looking at the WordPress Codex for the register_nav_menus function it reads in the notes:
This function automatically registers custom menu support for the theme therefore you do not need to call add_theme_support( 'menus' );
So should we just cut this bit of code out of our functions.php or is there are reason why we are doing it nevertheless? Am I looking at the wrong part of the codex? Is our example different in some way? Should I read no need to as but you can if you want to?
2 Answers
J Andrew Scott
30,626 PointsThe behavior of register_nav_menus() was modified in WP 3.0. Explicitly calling add_theme_support( 'menus' ); would probably be for legacy support on older releases (2.9, 2.9.1, 2.9.2). Realistically, though, with the current release up to 3.9, this should be a non-issue.
That said, calling add_theme_support( 'menus' ); multiple times makes no difference to the theme, so keeping it won't hurt anything.
Maximiliane Quel
Courses Plus Student 55,489 PointsThanks, that's very useful.