Add 5 custom menus to Agentpress theme

[senordeer]

Hello. I would like to add 5 custom menus to my Agentpress theme. I already have primary and can probably use Secondary for one of them but I would like to create then 5 new menus which I can then add to various widgeted areas on the site by using the Custom Menu widget. I am trying to come up with a workaround for the Agentpress Search Listings because it is not quite doing what I need, if I can set up some custom menus I think I can replace the Search Listings widget with custom menus.

Site is:

http://www.hersparkle.com

[senordeer]

And to add to this post, same topic, I did add a secondary navigation menu as a custom menu in a homepage widget, but it does not have the same styling as the primary nav. I don't care about color etc. but I would like the secondary menu items to appear on hover. I could even add a mega menu here, but the goal is to create a dropdown menu that can appear in a widgeted area. Thanks!

[Lauren @ OnceCoupled]

So if you want to put a menu in a widget, you don't need to assign it to primary or secondary. You just create it, and then in the widget you're able to choose the menu by name. Primary/secondary are used to identify pre-set locations that a menu can be inserted.

If you do want to go that route, there's a tutorial by Brad here: http://wpsites.net/web-design/adding-additional-nav-menus-in-genesis/.

As far as styling, it sounds like what you need isn't included out-of-the-box. You'll need to add these styles in yourself -- but you can probably do this by copying the original styles and changing the selectors so that they apply to your custom menus, too.

Best,
Lauren

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We create mobile-first, PageSpeed-optimized, pixel-perfect custom themes! https://www.oncecoupled.com

[senordeer]

Thank you so much Lauren! You are right, I think I was making too much of this. I ended up just adding new menus in the dashboard and styling them, I don't know why I had it in my head that I had to register new. I appreciate the clarity and feedback!

[Lauren @ OnceCoupled]

Glad I got you in the right direction -- helps that you had a clear idea of what you needed already. 🙂

Cheers,
Lauren

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We create mobile-first, PageSpeed-optimized, pixel-perfect custom themes! https://www.oncecoupled.com

[senordeer]

Yeah I never thought about using a custom menu to replace a search before, but if you are very specific in what items you want the user to be able to search, it actually kind of works, I'll probably use this as a workaround again. Thank you again for the time 🙂

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