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I need a way to create a custom HTML template for the wp_nav_menu function. I've heard of custom walker classes, but these don't appear to be helpful enough to achieve what I'm trying to do; at least as far as I know because of the lack of documentation towards walker functions. What I need to do is be able to add a 'hoverable' class to all top level menu items. I only need the menu to go two levels; top level, then child menu items. I need to add a 'top-level' class to all menu item anchor elements who have a sub-menu. I need all sub-menu lists to have the class 'sub-nav'. And I need to have all of the last sub-menu list items (li) to have a class 'last'.

Here's the code I have right now that generates my menu the exact way I need it to be generated using the get_pages function:

<?php $pages = get_pages(array( 'parent' => 0, 'sort_order' => 'ASC', 'sort_column' => 'menu_order' )); $num_pages = count($pages); $p = 0; $exclude = '"pastor.php","service.php","gallery.php","audio.php","video.php"'; $exclude_list = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(t1.ID) AS IDS FROM " . $wpdb->posts . " AS t1 INNER JOIN " . $wpdb->postmeta . " AS t2 ON (t1.ID = t2.post_id) WHERE t1.post_type = 'page' AND (t1.post_status = 'publish' OR t1.post_status = 'private') AND t2.meta_key = '_wp_page_template' AND t2.meta_value IN (" . $exclude . ") ORDER BY t1.post_date DESC"); foreach($pages as &$page) : $children = get_pages(array( 'sort_order' => 'ASC', 'sort_column' => 'menu_order', 'hierarchical' => 0, 'childof' => $page->ID, 'parent' => $page->ID, 'exclude' => $exclude_list[0]->IDS )); $num_children = count($children); $has_children = $num_children > 0; ?> <li class="nav-item<?php echo ($has_children ? ' hoverable' : '') . ($num_pages == ++$p ? ' last' : '') . ($page->post_name === $root_parent->post_name ? ' active' : '')?>"> <a href="<?php echo get_page_link($page->ID)?>" class="top-level"><?php echo $page->post_title?></a> <?php if($has_children) : ?> <ul class="sub-nav"> <?php $c = 0; foreach($children as &$child) : ?> <li class="nav-item<?php echo ($num_children == ++$c ? ' last' : '')?>"> <a href="<?php echo get_page_link($child->ID)?>"><?php echo $child->post_title?></a> </li> <?php endforeach;?> </ul> <?php endif;?> </li> <?php endforeach; ?>

Is there a way to pull menu items in an order multi-dimensional array so that way I can just iterate through them and generate the above template manually, instead of all this wp_nav_menu and walker none-sense?

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  • Old question, but just FYI my answer here might help if trying to access the WP nav as an array. Commented Mar 8, 2018 at 14:11

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Yes, there is. Use wp_get_nav_menu_items() instead.

<?php $items = wp_get_nav_menu_items( $menu, $args ); ?> <?php $args = array( 'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'menu_order', 'post_type' => 'nav_menu_item', 'post_status' => 'publish', 'output' => ARRAY_A, 'output_key' => 'menu_order', 'nopaging' => true, 'update_post_term_cache' => false ); ?>

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  • Yes, this'll return a one-di array, but you can use post_parent to show two level output. Commented Aug 14, 2012 at 7:00
  • But, post_parent only tells me the post's parent, not the menu item's parent, or am I wrong? Commented Aug 14, 2012 at 7:52
  • There's menu_item_parent, which is what I'm looking for. However, I'll need to first run through the single dimension array and transform it into a multi-dimensional array manually. Too bad, WP doesn't do this for me. Commented Aug 14, 2012 at 7:54
  • AFAIK, there is no other build in function to get the content of a nav menu. So you will have to transform it manually. Commented Aug 14, 2012 at 8:34

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