Title: Dynamic Navigation Menu Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Dynamic Navigation Menu * [clay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clay/) * (@clay) * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-navigation-menu/) * I wanted to created a dynamic menu which was easily administered and updatable. Previously I had a simple php script which parsed an array and displayed it in a list. However I couldn’t update the file dynamically and had to edit the file any time I wanted to change it. I am not too adept at programming- but the results can be seen at my site: [http://www.adailyadventure.com](http://www.adailyadventure.com) The menu at the top looks like your standard horizontal menu- However it is generated through a modified get_links function which accesses an alternate table from the link manager. Menu items can be managed from the Admin panel so you can change the link any time you want without needing to upload or edit any files. The source is at: [http://www.adailyadventure.com/journal/dynamicmenu.zip](http://www.adailyadventure.com/journal/dynamicmenu.zip) Comments and assistance in improvement are greatly appreciated Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * [steelsun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steelsun/) * (@steelsun) * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-navigation-menu/#post-87118) * I’ll give this a try this weekend. Looks like it may be just the kind of thing I’m looking for. Thanks! * Thread Starter [clay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clay/) * (@clay) * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-navigation-menu/#post-87120) * Cool, if you have any problems with the instructions let me know- I am still in shock I got it to work for me so I have no idea how it will go for someone else. It can certainly use some work I am sure- but I am at the end of my knowledge * Thread Starter [clay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clay/) * (@clay) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-navigation-menu/#post-87294) * Has anyone installed this? Does it work? Is it worth it? Any improvements? * Thread Starter [clay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clay/) * (@clay) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-navigation-menu/#post-87621) * I know some people have downloaded… * [sdollen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdollen/) * (@sdollen) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-navigation-menu/#post-87622) * Clay – I’ve downloaded and in the process of installing it now… so far no issues except that one of the instructions says to “Open or create my-hacks.php and add: ” Okay… is it saying I need to create a new php file called “my-hacks.php”, include the line and then upload it to…??? my home directory? my wp-admin directory? That step has kind of lost me. * Thread Starter [clay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clay/) * (@clay) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-navigation-menu/#post-87624) * Sorry about the confusion- If you upgraded from a version prior to 1.2 you may have a my-hacks.php file in the root wordpress directory already. 1.2 does not come with that file by default (it was replaced by the plugin function). So if it does not exist in the root directory of your blog, just create it. The only line it should include is the one in the instructions. In the admin panel, under Options> Miscellaneous make sure the ‘Use legacy my-hacks.php file support’ box is checked. Sorry if my explanations are not so clear- I don’t really know what I am doing! * Thread Starter [clay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clay/) * (@clay) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-navigation-menu/#post-87666) * sdollen: did you ever get it to work? * [sdollen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdollen/) * (@sdollen) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-navigation-menu/#post-87667) * Clay – I couldn’t get it to work. I followed all of the steps up to and including Step 5. I added the info in my index.php file and then when I clicked update, I received the following error. Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/stefan/public_html/my-hacks.php:42) in /home/stefan/public_html/wp-admin/templates.php on line 74 Here is the code that error is referring to: $newcontent = stripslashes($_POST[‘newcontent’]); $file = $_POST[‘file’]; $file = validate_file($file); $real_file = ‘../’ . $file; if (is_writeable($real_file)) { $f = fopen($real_file, ‘w+’); fwrite($f, $newcontent); fclose($f); header(“Location: templates.php?file=$file&a=te”); <<— Line 74 } else { header(“Location: templates.php?file=$file”); } Not sure if it had anything to do with having code already in the my-hacks.php file? * [TechGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techgnome/) * (@techgnome) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-navigation-menu/#post-87668) * sdollen – check your my-hacks.php file. if you have multiple php sections – startingwith – make sure there is NO WHITESPACE between the closing? > and the next opening , there should be no whitespace there either, not carriage return or space, nothing. This is the problem for that error 99.99999% of hte time. And, if you find that you do have ?>