Title: custom Menu doesn't work
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# custom Menu doesn't work

 *  [protagonist22](https://wordpress.org/support/users/protagonist22/)
 * (@protagonist22)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-menu-doesnt-work/)
 * Hi everyone
    I have just installed WP on one of my sites, everything worked fine,
   but I cannot make custom menus work. I went into the menu setting like I always
   do, create a new custom menu, create new menu items in the new custom menu, BUT
   when I check out the site, nothing has been added. I then tried to install third
   party menu plug-ins, no luck either. Can someone help me? Thank you.
 * David

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 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-menu-doesnt-work/#post-1684026)
 * What theme are you using may the theme does not have menu feature.
    at top do
   you have primary menu if so you need to select your menu from dropdown menu
 *  Thread Starter [protagonist22](https://wordpress.org/support/users/protagonist22/)
 * (@protagonist22)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-menu-doesnt-work/#post-1684036)
 * Hi Govpatel
    My theme indeed supports menu. You can check out a screen shoot 
   of my menu option page: [http://img.skitch.com/20100921-e1mg3dq8mr3k9buj797gw5xi9s.jpg](http://img.skitch.com/20100921-e1mg3dq8mr3k9buj797gw5xi9s.jpg)
 *  [sharecommons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharecommons/)
 * (@sharecommons)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-menu-doesnt-work/#post-1684039)
 * It says on left side:
 *     ```
       THEME LOCATIONS
       The current theme does not natively support menus, but you can use the "Custom Menu" widget to add any menus you create here to the theme's sidebar.
       ```
   
 *  [sharecommons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharecommons/)
 * (@sharecommons)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-menu-doesnt-work/#post-1684041)
 * Can you tell me if you see this piece of code in your header.php file?
    If it
   is not there, first backup your header.php file and then put this piece of code
   in it where you see “Navigation” function. It could be the wp_list_pages function
   there. But replace that with this:
 * `<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'container_class' => 'menu-header', 'theme_location'
   => 'primary' ) ); ?>`
 * Try try .. 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [sharecommons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharecommons/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-menu-doesnt-work/#post-1684041)
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