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WordPress WordPress Theme Development Building Out WordPress Navigation Coding A Basic Navigation in WordPress

Jake Ford
Jake Ford
9,230 Points
Posted by Jake Ford
Jake Ford
9,230 Points

Why do we have to create the function register_theme_menus()?

If register_nav_menus() is what actually adds our menu to wordpress, then why are we wrapping it in another register_theme_menus() function?

I don't see the point of it?

1 Answer

Fulvio Giacomello
Fulvio Giacomello
5,095 Points
Fulvio Giacomello
Fulvio Giacomello
5,095 Points

I think we (technically) don't have to. We could hook the 'register_nav_menus' function to 'init' like this:

add_action( 'init', register_nav_menus ( array( 'primary_menu' => __( 'Primary Menu' ) ) ) );

but this code it's harder to read and understand