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How to Put Categories Before Pages in Thesis Navigation Menu?

by Suresh in How To,Thesis Theme Customization,Thesis Theme Tutorials

Normally thesis theme navigation menu shown menu items in particular order like Home, pages, Categories, Links (it may be a post link or other link) and Rss feed link. Few of our readers have asked about how to change nav items order in thesis menu. Some of them asking about how to display categories before pages?. Reader comments ….

Thanks for the tutorial.

Do you know if there is a way to put all of the categories before the pages?

This is great! But do you have any idea how to make the category appear somewhere else in the menu, instead of as the last menu item only?

In this thesis theme customization video tutorial I am going to explain how to reorder our navigation menu items in thesis theme.

We know how to add links in navigation, for this we have option in wordpress admin dashboard. Goto thesis options under ‘thesis options’ in left sidebar of the dash board. Inside the thesis options we have navigation menu which has 5 options to add or remove items in navigation menu. Here we can add or remove pages, categories, links, homelink, and feedlink.

Display categories before pages in navigation menu.

To align categories before pages in navigation menu change the following code in nav_menu.php file. To achieve the above statement follow these steps.

Login your ftp with cpanal user name and password.
Open lib/ functions folder the path of this folder is Public_html/fourblogger.com/wp-content/themes/thesis_16/lib/functions.
Inside the functions folder we have nav_menu.php file open this file inside we have the following codes. Swap the below code which is differentiated in different color.

The default code as follows

if ($thesis['nav']['pages']) {
foreach ($thesis['nav']['pages'] as $id => $nav_page) {
if ($nav_page['show']) {
$nav_items[] = $id;
$page_data[$id] = get_page($id);
$parents[$id] = ($page_data[$id]->post_parent != 0) ? $page_data[$id]->post_parent : 0;
}
}
if (is_array($nav_items)) {
foreach ($nav_items as $id) {
if (!$parents[$id])
$nav_array[] = thesis_nav_array($id, $nav_items, $current);
}
}
if (is_array($nav_array))
thesis_output_nav($nav_array, $page_data);
}

if ($thesis['nav']['categories'])
wp_list_categories('title_li=&include=' . $thesis['nav']['categories']);

The above code having two parts the first part is for pages second part is for categories. If you want your categories before header swap these two parts.

After swaping the above code it looks like below code.

if ($thesis['nav']['categories'])
wp_list_categories('title_li=&include=' . $thesis['nav']['categories']);

if ($thesis['nav']['pages']) {
foreach ($thesis['nav']['pages'] as $id => $nav_page) {
if ($nav_page['show']) {
$nav_items[] = $id;
$page_data[$id] = get_page($id);
$parents[$id] = ($page_data[$id]->post_parent != 0) ? $page_data[$id]->post_parent : 0;
}
}
if (is_array($nav_items)) {
foreach ($nav_items as $id) {
if (!$parents[$id])
$nav_array[] = thesis_nav_array($id, $nav_items, $current);
}
}
if (is_array($nav_array))
thesis_output_nav($nav_array, $page_data);
}

Now save your nav_menu.php file and refresh your site. Now you are got your categories before pages in navigation menu. The below image I am having featured, makemoney and testing categories before pages.

categories before pages in menu

By the similar way nav_menu.php file having codes for home, pages, categories, link and feed link if you want you can change your order by re arranging the file with help of the above video. Share your experience in comment section. For more checkout our all Thesis theme tutorials..