How to Register Multiple WordPress Menu Locations in Thesis

Before you can start this tutorial, you’ll need to follow the tutorial on how to add the WordPress 3 menu to Thesis.

Once you finish that tutorial, you will have the following in your custom_functions.php:

add_action('init','register_menu');
remove_action('thesis_hook_before_header','thesis_nav_menu');
add_action('thesis_hook_before_header','wordpress_menu_support');

function register_menu() {
register_nav_menus(
    array(
        'primary'=>'Primary Menu'
    ));
}

function wordpress_menu_support() {
if (function_exists('wp_nav_menu'))
	wp_nav_menu('theme_location=primary&fallback_cb=thesis_nav_menu');
else
	thesis_nav_menu();
}

Now we need to do two things:

1. Register the menu area.
2. Hook the menu area into place. In this example I’ll be putting a menu above the footer.

To accomplish this, we will add the following to our code from above:

add_action('init','register_menu');
remove_action('thesis_hook_before_header','thesis_nav_menu');
add_action('thesis_hook_before_header','wordpress_menu_support');
add_action('thesis_hook_before_footer','footer_menu');

function register_menu() {
register_nav_menus(
    array(
        'primary'=>'Primary Menu',
        'footer'=>'Footer Menu'
    ));
}

function footer_menu() {
wp_nav_menu('theme_location=footer');
}

function wordpress_menu_support() {
if (function_exists('wp_nav_menu'))
	wp_nav_menu('theme_location=primary&fallback_cb=thesis_nav_menu');
else
	thesis_nav_menu();
}

For the register part, I simply added a comma then 'footer'=>'Footer Menu'. The first part, 'footer' is the menu slug. The second part, 'Footer Menu' is what will be displayed in the WordPress admin. So, if you were going to add a menu above the content, you may do something like this 'content-menu'=>'Content Menu'.

The second thing I did was add a function that contains my menu.

function footer_menu() {
wp_nav_menu('theme_location=footer');
}

If I wanted to add the menu above the content, I would do something like this:

function content_menu() {
wp_nav_menu('theme_location=content-menu');
}

Lastly, I hooked my function into place with

add_action('thesis_hook_before_footer','footer_menu');

If I were putting a menu area above the content, I may do something like this:

add_action('thesis_hook_before_content','content_menu');