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Wordpress Bootstrap Navigation


I have combined bootstrap and wordpress. I have found 2 articles and gists that provide a walker and some markup to add to get a dropdown navigational menu working properly.

I have tried several times to incorporate the walker, but all I get is just a blank vertical menu that can't be seen except for bullets. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Ok, here is what I have done. http://twittem.github.com/wp-bootstrap-navwalker/ I have followed the instructions here. I created a new twitter_bootstrap_nav_walker.php file, just like it said. I have placed it in the correct place. The wp_nav_menu() (code), I wasn't sure where to put this, one person said to put it into mt header, another said to put it in nav_menu_template.php. When I put it to the template, I get a syntax error within dreamweaver. When I added the code to the header.php file, I get a fatal error. Scott, thanks for showing me something new but I am not looking to start over


Solution

  • The markup/code below is working for me. You may or may not want the user login code in the header.

    in header.php

            <div id="page-navbar" class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-static-top">
                <div class="navbar-inner">
                <div class="container-fluid">
                    <button type="button" class="btn btn-navbar" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse">
                    <span class="icon-bar"></span>
                    <span class="icon-bar"></span>
                    <span class="icon-bar"></span>
                    </button>
                    <a class="brand" href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a>
                    <div class="nav-collapse collapse">
                        <p class="navbar-text pull-right">
                            <?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>
                                <a href="/wp-admin" class="login"><i class="icon-user"></i> <?php echo $current_user->display_name; ?></a>
                            <?php else : ?>
                                <a href="/wp-login.php" class="login"><i class="icon-signin"></i> Sign In</a>
                            <?php endif ?>
                        </p>
    
                        <?php wp_nav_menu(array(
                        'depth' => 2,
                        'container' => false,
                        'menu_class' => 'nav',
                        'walker' => new Bootstrap_Walker_Nav_Menu()
                        )); ?>   
    
                    </div><!--/.nav-collapse -->
                </div>
                </div>
            </div>
    

    The Bootstrap_Walker_Nav_Menu class comes from John Megahan.

    class Bootstrap_Walker_Nav_Menu extends Walker_Nav_Menu {
    
    
    function start_lvl( &$output, $depth = 0, $args = array()) {
    
        $indent = str_repeat( "\t", $depth );
        $output    .= "\n$indent<ul class=\"dropdown-menu\">\n";
    
    }
    
    function start_el( &$output, $item, $depth = 0, $args = array(), $id = 0 ) {
    
        $indent = ( $depth ) ? str_repeat( "\t", $depth ) : '';
    
        $li_attributes = '';
        $class_names = $value = '';
    
        $classes = empty( $item->classes ) ? array() : (array) $item->classes;
        $classes[] = ($args->has_children) ? 'dropdown' : '';
        $classes[] = ($item->current || $item->current_item_ancestor) ? 'active' : '';
        $classes[] = 'menu-item-' . $item->ID;
    
    
        $class_names = join( ' ', apply_filters( 'nav_menu_css_class', array_filter( $classes ), $item, $args ) );
        $class_names = ' class="' . esc_attr( $class_names ) . '"';
    
        $id = apply_filters( 'nav_menu_item_id', 'menu-item-'. $item->ID, $item, $args );
        $id = strlen( $id ) ? ' id="' . esc_attr( $id ) . '"' : '';
    
        $output .= $indent . '<li' . $id . $value . $class_names . $li_attributes . '>';
    
        $attributes  = ! empty( $item->attr_title ) ? ' title="'  . esc_attr( $item->attr_title ) .'"' : '';
        $attributes .= ! empty( $item->target )     ? ' target="' . esc_attr( $item->target     ) .'"' : '';
        $attributes .= ! empty( $item->xfn )        ? ' rel="'    . esc_attr( $item->xfn        ) .'"' : '';
        $attributes .= ! empty( $item->url )        ? ' href="'   . esc_attr( $item->url        ) .'"' : '';
        $attributes .= ($args->has_children)        ? ' class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown"' : '';
    
        $item_output = $args->before;
        $item_output .= '<a'. $attributes .'>';
        $item_output .= $args->link_before . apply_filters( 'the_title', $item->title, $item->ID ) . $args->link_after;
        $item_output .= ($args->has_children) ? ' <b class="caret"></b></a>' : '</a>';
        $item_output .= $args->after;
    
        $output .= apply_filters( 'walker_nav_menu_start_el', $item_output, $item, $depth, $args );
    }
    
    function display_element( $element, &$children_elements, $max_depth, $depth=0, $args, &$output ) {
    
        if ( !$element )
            return;
    
        $id_field = $this->db_fields['id'];
    
        //display this element
        if ( is_array( $args[0] ) ) 
            $args[0]['has_children'] = ! empty( $children_elements[$element->$id_field] );
        else if ( is_object( $args[0] ) ) 
            $args[0]->has_children = ! empty( $children_elements[$element->$id_field] ); 
        $cb_args = array_merge( array(&$output, $element, $depth), $args);
        call_user_func_array(array(&$this, 'start_el'), $cb_args);
    
        $id = $element->$id_field;
    
        // descend only when the depth is right and there are childrens for this element
        if ( ($max_depth == 0 || $max_depth > $depth+1 ) && isset( $children_elements[$id]) ) {
    
            foreach( $children_elements[ $id ] as $child ){
    
                if ( !isset($newlevel) ) {
                    $newlevel = true;
                    //start the child delimiter
                    $cb_args = array_merge( array(&$output, $depth), $args);
                    call_user_func_array(array(&$this, 'start_lvl'), $cb_args);
                }
                $this->display_element( $child, $children_elements, $max_depth, $depth + 1, $args, $output );
            }
            unset( $children_elements[ $id ] );
        }
    
        if ( isset($newlevel) && $newlevel ){
            //end the child delimiter
            $cb_args = array_merge( array(&$output, $depth), $args);
            call_user_func_array(array(&$this, 'end_lvl'), $cb_args);
        }
    
        //end this element
        $cb_args = array_merge( array(&$output, $element, $depth), $args);
        call_user_func_array(array(&$this, 'end_el'), $cb_args);
    
    }
    
    }