Adding widget content on the end of the secondary navigation menu

[glenkg]

Hi ,

I found the code to add a search box of or date next to the secondary navigation menu. But is it also possible to hook a widget area to this position?

From what i found so far add something like this?

add_filter( ‘wp_nav_menu_items’, ‘right_scf’, 10, 2 );

function right_scf’($menu, $args) {
$args = (array)$args;
if ( ‘secondary’ !== $args[‘theme_location’] )
return $menu;
ob_start();
dynamic_sidebar('Secondary Right');
$search= ob_get_clean();
return $search . $menu;
}

Is this way off or am I close? Or does someone have another option in their experience that worked better? Thank you.

[Victor Font]

That would work if it were coded correctly. If you use it as displayed, it will crash your site. You should be using straight quotes instead of curly quotes and there shouldn't be a quote in the function name declaration.

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[glenkg]

Hi Victor,

Thank you for pointing that out. I changed it

add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'right_scf', 10, 2 );

function right_scf ($menu, $args) {
$args = (array)$args;
if ( 'secondary' !== $args['theme_location'] )
return $menu;
ob_start();
dynamic_sidebar('Secondary Right');
$search= ob_get_clean();
return $search . $menu;
}

Nothing is happening.. do I still have to add the sidebar?

[glenkg]

Hi Disregard the lost question, It was that.

But now it comes above the secondary menu. Is there a way I can get it to appear after the lost menu-item from the secondary menu? Should I make it a menu item of sort? It would be nice if it would be added like that. Is this possible?

thank you

[glenkg]

I added the line:

$menu .= '<li class="right search">' . $search . '</li>';

and then it shows up twice. One time correctly.

function right_scf ($menu, $args) {
$args = (array)$args;
if ( 'secondary' !== $args['theme_location'] )
return $menu;
ob_start();
dynamic_sidebar('Secondary Right');
$search= ob_get_clean();
$menu  .= '<li class="right search">' . $search . '</li>';
return $search . $menu;
}

this is how it shows up. the one above the menu has to be disabled:

http://imgbox.com/kHVuDavR

Do I have to combine the sidebar with the li class? I am close now, but still this lost hurdle..

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