Menu items won’t appear

Ok, checked the database and didn’t see anything odd. I also created a new menu to test if the issue was with the old menus, and that didn’t show up either. Very strange.

Also tried deactivating and reactivating the plugin. Took a peek with the inspector, and it’s not rendering the menu links div at all–only the title and search.

Now we’re getting somewhere. Looks like it’s an issue with the theme. That would actually make more sense than the plugin randomly not working anymore. I’ll bet it’s some CSS somewhere in there–I’ll dig through and post back.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by mrdaneeyul.

Good call. Looks like it’s in the functions.php file. They had me add a Donate button to the header, so I tacked it on to the menu.

add_filter('wp_nav_menu_items', 'add_donate_button', 10, 2);
function add_donate_button($items, $args) {
	if ($args-> theme_location == 'primary') {
		return $items.'<li class="donate menu-item"> <form id="donate-form" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
				<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
				<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="6SGHPD9P7QHDY">
				<input type="submit" border="0" name="Donate" value="Donate" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
			</form>
					</li>';
	}
}

Deleting it fixes the issue. Now I just need to figure out how I can add it back without breaking things.

EDIT: It’s a bit of a hackish way out, but at this point I’ll take it. I used jQuery().append() to append the HTML to the main navigation and not to your menu. Works now!

It does look like using php to do even the following will break the plugin:

add_filter('wp_nav_menu_items', 'add_donate_button', 10, 2);
function add_donate_button($items, $args) {
	if ($args-> theme_location == 'primary') {
		return $items.'';
        }
}

• This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by mrdaneeyul.

Aha. That was it. Rookie mistake on my part. I appreciate the help! Now I can get rid of the jQuery .append() and do it the right way.