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Need second menu… using Vantage child

By Pam, 8 years ago. Last reply by Andrew Misplon, 8 years ago.

So far I have tried the megamax menu plugin and could not get it to put a second menu under the primary. I think the issue there was a needed change to the parts/menu.php file which I could not find. Posting at that site got no response so I went back to putting a widget in the header area and am actually seeing a menu when I select the default masthead and default menu.
The styling and position is not what I am looking for though. I would like the second menu to be positioned immediately under the primary and I would like to style it very similarly to the primary. At some point in my trial and errors I got a version which put the tag line or site description where the second menu is going now. I would like have it that way.

URL: http://www.gobigdig.com/TEST_1/

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  1. 8 years, 11 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi Pam

    Thanks for reaching out.

    If you upgrade to the latest version of Vantage (2.4.4) there is now support for Max Mega Menu. However the integration will swap out the main Vantage menu for the Max Mega Menu. It won’t add it below.

    If you’d like to try do that yourself you can create a “parts” folder in your child theme and copy menu.php from the parts folder in the parent theme to the parts folder in the child theme.

    This sort of work is unfortunately custom development and not covered under our support here on the forums. If you require developer assistance we recommend Codeable.io.

  2. 8 years, 11 months ago Pam

    Latest version I am seeing is 1.4.2. My version of WP is 4.3.1 and on my WordPress Dashboard Updates is showing all my plugins and themes are up to date. I did a search for Vantage 2.4.4 and turned up only a single reference which also mentioned 2.4.2 but nothing about where to get it.
    Where am I supposed to find this update?

  3. 8 years, 11 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    You’re currently running Vantage parent 2.4.2. You can check that version number by hovering over the Vantage parent screenshot and clicking Theme Details at Appearance > Themes.

    If your order number is correctly inserted at Appearance > Theme Settings > Premium then there should be an update pending at Dashboard > Updates.

  4. 8 years, 11 months ago Pam

    Yes… can see the 2.4.2 on the parent screenshot and not sure why it is wrong on Dashboard>Updates.

    And I am pretty sure the order number is correctly input, but there is no pending update. The Free Vantage is no longer in my list of themes so I cannot go back and redo the instructions. The upgrade is not showing. I did copy/paste the number in and re-saved the settings with same result.
    I have experienced some odd behavior since upgrading and a corrupted install may account for it.
    How should I go about clearing this up?

  5. 8 years, 11 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Things to check:

    1. If your WordPress installation is part of a WordPress Multi-Site install then automatic updates won’t work.
    2. Is the following order number inserted at Theme Settings > Premium?

    Private Snippet

  6. 8 years, 11 months ago Pam

    I did not do a Multi-Site install as far as I know. What I have is aHostGator hosting where I have a static old fashioned hand coded site. I have two wordpress sites in two subfolders and as far as I know they have their own mysql db. The first site was Tesseract themed and the second was Vantage. I used Duplicator to move a copy of the Vantage to my computer… upgraded to premium, created the Child, did a bit of work on it and then figured out I could not get help if I was not located on web so then I created a new db at Hostgator and used Duplicator to move it back to HostGator.

    Yes the order number is inserted and save at Theme Settings>Premium… and I redid that again a bit ago.

  7. 8 years, 11 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Thanks for the update. Appreciate it. Apologies for the hassle. I just remembered we’re throttling the 2.4.4 release so not everyone has it yet. I’ll send the zip as soon as I get back in front of my computer in about 45 mins.

  8. 8 years, 11 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    You can download the latest ZIP file here:

    Private Snippet

    Manual update instructions as follows:

    Page: Updating a Theme Using a ZIP File

  9. 8 years, 11 months ago Pam

    Great! Thanks. I will give codable.io a look.

  10. 8 years, 11 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    For sure :) Hope you make progress.

  11. 8 years, 11 months ago Pam

    Got two menus working at the top of my page. It took a little code addition on the functions.php:

     
// This theme uses wp_nav_menu() in one location.
	register_nav_menus( array(
		'primary' => __( 'Primary Menu', 'vantage' ),
		'secondary' => __( 'Secondary Menu', 'vantage' ),
	) );

    Then on the menu.php which lives in the parts folder:

    <?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'primary', 'link_before' => '<span class="icon"></span>' ) ); ?>
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'secondary', 'link_before' => '<span class="icon"></span>' ) ); ?>

    Then create the secondary menu and set the location to Secondary in Appearances>Menu.
    Thank you so much for getting me on the right path.

  12. 8 years, 11 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    For sure :) Really glad to hear it. All the best.

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