Title: empty sidebar menu
Last modified: May 14, 2025

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# empty sidebar menu

 *  [pepijk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pepijk/)
 * (@pepijk)
 * [1 year ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-sidebar-menu/)
 * Hi I have made a sidemenu in widgets. But My sidebar menu is empty. Can you help
   me?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fempty-sidebar-menu%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Oliver Campion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/domainsupport/)
 * (@domainsupport)
 * [1 year ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-sidebar-menu/#post-18465161)
 * Hi,
 * We’ve seen this before but unfortunately it’s your theme that’s adding extra 
   classes to the SideMenu open icon menu item that’s causing the issue …
 *     ```wp-block-code
       class="open_sidemenu et_pb_menu_page_id-4536 menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-4536 et-show-dropdown et-hover"
       ```
   
 * It should just be …
 *     ```wp-block-code
       class="open_sidemenu menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-4536"
       ```
   
 * That extra class is confusing the SideMenu javascript and making it think that
   there’s special content that you want to show for that button (that doesn’t exist)
   which is why it’s showing an empty SideMenu panel.
 * The way forward here is to add the open button manually (such as using a shortcode
   widget or HTML widget) rather than adding it as a menu if that’s possible with
   your theme. This will prevent your theme from injecting the extra classes that’s
   breaking the SideMenu open button.
 * Oliver
 *  Thread Starter [pepijk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pepijk/)
 * (@pepijk)
 * [1 year ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-sidebar-menu/#post-18465178)
 * Great thanks! Where can I found the shortcode?
 *  Plugin Author [Oliver Campion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/domainsupport/)
 * (@domainsupport)
 * [1 year ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-sidebar-menu/#post-18465195)
 * If you [visit the plugin page](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sidemenu/) and scroll
   down there is a section entitled “How to use the shortcode”.

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 * Last reply from: [Oliver Campion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/domainsupport/)
 * Last activity: [1 year ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-sidebar-menu/#post-18465195)
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