Problem:
I need to output a WordPress nav menu as a series of anchors surrounded by spans, within one nav element. Manipulating the args passed to wp_nav_menu() function will allow the <ul> element to be removed, and passing the output through ‘striptags’ can remove the <li> elements, but I end up losing all the link ancestry classes.
Solution:
If a ‘Walker’ class is used, the output from wp_nav_menu() can be controlled totally. Here’s an example that removes the list elements, adds a span around each item link, and adds the possibility of a separator string between each menu item.
Add to your theme / header / etc:
<nav role="navigation"> <?php $menuArgs = array( 'container' => false, 'items_wrap' => '%3$s', 'separator' =>'|', //this is a custom arg I've added, not a 'core' one. 'walker' => new nolist_walker() ); wp_nav_menu($menuArgs); ?> </nav> |
Add to functions.php or a plugin:
class nolist_walker extends Walker_Nav_Menu { function start_el(&$output, $item, $depth, $args) { $classes = empty($item->classes) ? array () : (array) $item->classes; $class_names = join(' ', apply_filters('nav_menu_css_class', array_filter($classes), $item)); !empty ($class_names) && $class_names = 'class="'. esc_attr($class_names) . '"'; !empty($args->separator) && ($item->menu_order > 1) && $output .= '<span class="menu-sep">'.$args->separator."</span>n"; $output .= "<span id='menu-item-$item->ID' $class_names>"; $attributes = ''; !empty($item->attr_title) && $attributes .= ' title="' . esc_attr($item->attr_title) .'"'; !empty($item->target) && $attributes .= ' target="' . esc_attr($item->target) .'"'; !empty($item->xfn) && $attributes .= ' rel="' . esc_attr($item->xfn) .'"'; !empty($item->url) && $attributes .= ' href="' . esc_attr($item->url) .'"'; $title = apply_filters('the_title', $item->title, $item->ID); $item_output = $args->before."<a$attributes>".$args->link_before.$title.'</a>'.$args->link_after.$args->after; $output .= apply_filters('walker_nav_menu_start_el', $item_output, $item, $depth, $args); } function end_el(&$output, $item, $depth) { $output .= "</span>n"; } } |
Hopefully that’s pretty clear. If you have any questions let me know in the comments and I’ll try and help. If I’ve made a dork mistake, let me know and I’ll correct it
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Please let me know if this snippet was useful, just one click!