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function print_menu_shortcode($atts, $content = null) {
	extract(shortcode_atts(array( 'name' => null, ), $atts));
	return wp_nav_menu( array( 'menu' => $name, 'echo' => false ) );
}
add_shortcode('menu', 'print_menu_shortcode');

13 Responses to “Call a navigation menu using a shortcode”

1. Hakan says:

   September 16, 2010 at 6:05 pm

   Thanks for the post. I wrote it like this:

   function my-shortcode-name() {
   return wp_nav_menu( array( ‘theme_location’ => ‘mymenu-name’,'depth’ => ’2′,’menu_class’ => ‘my-class-name’, ‘echo’ => false ) );
   ;}add_shortcode(‘my-shortcode-name’,'my-shortcode-name’);

   One problem tough. When I put the shortcode in a custom post type field the class “current_page_item” wont show up as it should. Any solution for this?

   I tested “wp_reset_query();”:

   function my-shortcode-name() {
   wp_reset_query();
   return wp_nav_menu( array( ‘theme_location’ => ‘mymenu-name’,'depth’ => ’2′,’menu_class’ => ‘my-class-name’, ‘echo’ => false ) );
   ;}add_shortcode(‘my-shortcode-name’,'my-shortcode-name’);

   It works on pages but mess up the site on posts.

   Any solution?

   BR.

   Hakan

   Reply
2. Jennifer says:

   December 6, 2010 at 11:40 am

   Thnak you!! This is brilliant! I am not a coder but this was exactly what I needed. I saw some popup somewhere to donate but don’t now. I will throw in a few bucks for this.

   Reply
3. Pascal says:

   January 15, 2011 at 10:24 am

   Thanks for this post, it helped me a lot !

   Reply
4. Heiko says:

   March 24, 2011 at 11:44 am

   That’s great! I searched now for while to solve that problem because I did too many widgets with widget logic and now this works out of the box – copy&paste and done – thanks a lot!

   Reply
5. Marfalkov says:

   April 15, 2011 at 8:54 pm

   Great!

   Thank You

   Reply
6. JN says:

   May 4, 2011 at 8:33 pm

   Thank you!
   I added this to our customer knowledgebase as well:
   http://www.anysitesupport.com/how-do-i-add-a-wordpress-menu-to-the-content-of-my-page/

   And linked back to here for reference. This really saved one of our customers – thanks again!

   Reply
7. Matt Graham says:

   June 20, 2011 at 2:01 pm

   Awesome. Used this in conjunction with a SlideDeck for front page nav. Stellar.

   Thanks!

   Reply
8. Jennifer Carello says:

   June 20, 2011 at 2:34 pm

   Matt, LOVE SLIDEDECK! I just checked it out from your post and it is so great! I am definitely purchasing it Thanks for that tip.

   Reply
9. JN says:

   June 30, 2011 at 9:22 am

   Now need a slight edit – any thoughts?

   Need the ability to display just the sub pages from the page it displays on?

   Reply
   • Stephanie says:

     June 30, 2011 at 10:14 am

     Hmm, tricky. If you can use a plain old page list instead of the menu, I can do that! Here’s the code for a theme file, a functions.php filter, or a shortcode.

     Reply
10. Thomas Bacon says:

    March 15, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    I was about to write this same code, then I thought I bet someone else has had this same exact issue so I searched, and sure enough… This worked great, thanks!

    Reply
11. Stephan says:

    May 13, 2012 at 4:33 am

    Thanks for this post! Your description is – for me – as a WP-newbie inconceivable, as I do not understand where to copy the text “[menu name =" main menu "]” to? Also in the functions.php of the theme below the copied function?

    Reply
12. vasch says:

    May 15, 2012 at 4:01 am

    For hours I’ve been looking to get this one!
    THANKS! It works smoothly.
    If anyone can make this work with a combobox or dropdown, it would even be better, but this one is fine already!

    Reply