Customizing Category Navigation

1. 

   Curtis Penner (Member)
   Posted 11 months ago | Permalink

   I'm trying to customize my hybrid category navigation by adding some external links. I've inserted the following code into the functions.php file with no change to my site. I thought I'd used this code before and it worked. Not sure what's going on now.

   add_filter( 'hybrid_category_menu', 'custom_cat_nav' );
   
   function custom_cat_nav( $menu ) {
   	$menu = false;
   	$menu = '<ul id="cat-nav" class="menu sf-menu">';
   	$menu .= '<li><a href="http://somelink.com">Some link</a></li>';
   	$menu .= wp_list_categories( array( 'depth' => 4, 'exclude' => '1',  'title_li' => false, 'echo' => 0 ) );
   	$menu .= '</ul>';
   	return $menu;
   }

2. 

   Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
   Posted 11 months ago | Permalink

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   Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
   Posted 6 months ago | Permalink

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   gbs (Member)
   Posted 6 months ago | Permalink

   That is fantastic Justin :)

   Is there a way to display say just 1 page and it's sub pages?
   Just want the home link first, then the categories, then the 'About Us' page/sub pages.
   

   echo '<div id="cat-nav" class="cat-nav"><ul class="menu sf-menu">';
   echo '<li><a href="http://www.example.com">Home</a></li>';
   
   echo str_replace( array( "\t", "\n", "\r" ), '', wp_list_categories( $args ) );
   wp_list_pages( array( 'title_li' => false ) ); // just display Category ID 2 menu items (About Us)
   
   echo '</ul></div>';

   Thanks for your time, kind regards, Ian

5. 

   Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
   Posted 6 months ago | Permalink

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   gbs (Member)
   Posted 6 months ago | Permalink

   Thank you very much, that will work.

   It means they can't break the menu as I will add the pages as needed.

7. 

   AmyA (Member)
   Posted 2 months ago | Permalink

   Is it possible to specify child categories to the external "Some Link" you added above so they drop down?

8. 

   Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
   Posted 2 months ago | Permalink

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   AmyA (Member)
   Posted 2 months ago | Permalink

   No, I added the external "Some Link" to the cat-nav that you explained above. Now I would like to add more external links, however, I'd like them to drop down below "Some Link."

10. 

    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
    Posted 2 months ago | Permalink

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11. 

    slipn (Member)
    Posted 2 months ago | Permalink

    For modded cat nav on Hybrid News...so if I'm taking out the categories altogether and have one album external link and some pages it would look like this?
    

    echo '<div id="cat-nav" class="cat-nav"><ul class="menu sf-menu">';
    echo '<li><a href="http://www.example.com">album</a></li>';
    wp_list_pages( array( 'include' => '1,2,3,4', 'title_li' => false ) );
    
    echo '</ul></div>';

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    AmyA (Member)
    Posted 2 months ago | Permalink

    Great! Thank you.

13. 

    AmyA (Member)
    Posted 2 months ago | Permalink

    Hmmm, got this error twice:

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '>' in /home5/unclutt4/public_html/testsitea/wp-content/themes/hybrid-news2/functions.php on line 105

    Here's my code:

    /**
     * Displays the category menu.
     *
     * @since 0.2
     */
    function news_cat_nav() {
    
    	$args = array(
    		'style' => 'list',
    		'hide_empty' => true,
    		'use_desc_for_title' => false,
    		'depth' => 4,
    		'hierarchical' => true,
    		'echo' => false,	// Leave as is.
    		'title_li' => false,	// Leave as is.
    	);
    
    	echo "\n\t<div id='cat-navigation'>\n\t\t";
    
    echo '<div id="cat-nav" class="cat-nav"><ul class="menu sf-menu">';
    
    echo str_replace( array( "\t", "\n", "\r" ), '', wp_list_categories( $args ) );
    echo '<li><a href="http://withpurpose.com">WithPurpose1</a>
    echo '<ul>';
    	echo '<li><a href="http://withpurpose.com">WithPurpose2</a></li>';
    	echo '<li><a href="http://withpurpose.com">WithPurpose3</a></li>';
    echo '</ul>';</li>';
    
    echo '</ul></div>';
    
    	echo '<div id="feed"><ul>';
    	echo '<li class="feed-url"><a href="' . get_bloginfo( 'rss2_url' ) . '" title="' . __('Subscribe to the feed', 'news') . '">' . __('Subscribe', 'news') . '</a></li>';
    	echo '</ul></div>';
    
    	echo "\n\t</div>\n";
    }

14. 

    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
    Posted 2 months ago | Permalink

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    AmyA (Member)
    Posted 2 months ago | Permalink

    Ah! Figured it was a simple mistake. Thank you.

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