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ardon Bailey
3,750 PointsStyling the nav in WordPress
I know there are some more videos coming soon about styling the wp theme but I was trying to add some CSS to the wp_nav_menu in the header.php page and was having some trouble. When I tried adding a div class my wp_nav_menu, my site went blank.
<p> This is the header </p>
<?php $args = array(
'menu' => 'main-menu'
);
wp_nav_menu( $args );
?>
5 Answers
John Locke
15,479 Points@ardon You might want to try something like this instead.
<?php wp_nav_menu( array('menu' => 'Main Navigation' )); ?>
where Main Navigation is the name of your top level navigation menu.
I use Chrome Developer Tools (right click) > Inspect Element to see what the class is, and then write accordingly. If I need to add a class, I can either wrap it in another div, or try to figure out where in the PHP it is writing the menu, and have it add a class there.
ardon Bailey
3,750 PointsThanks for the suggestion, John! I'm going to play around with that.
John Locke
15,479 PointsLet us know if that works.
ardon Bailey
3,750 PointsI was up for a few hours last night trying to figure out why my menu wouldn't style. My nav id wouldn't show up in inspector. I reinstalled everything and that did the trick. When all else fails, reinstall eh. Thanks again.
John Locke
15,479 PointsSometimes you have to reinstall. Glad it all worked out in the end :)