Title: Multisite aand Global Widget Menu using PHP?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Multisite aand Global Widget Menu using PHP?

 *  [nycwolverine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nycwolverine/)
 * (@nycwolverine)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-aand-global-widget-menu-using-php/)
 * I’ve just installed wordpress and enabled multisite.
 * Using the network wide menu plugin ([http://wpmututorials.com/plugins/networkwide-menu/](http://wpmututorials.com/plugins/networkwide-menu/)),
   I’ve been able to get the primary menu to display on all my sub-sites in the 
   header position – hooray!
 * Now I’m trying to achieve the same effect in my theme’s footer through the four
   footer widget areas available to me.
 * I don’t believe a plugin exists to achieve this and my google research seems 
   to indicate that it might not be possible to achieve the global menu effect in
   widgets.
 * That said, I thought of a possible workaround that I’m hoping to get feedback
   on.
 * In the main site I created several custom menu’s. I then used the Custom Menu
   widget to display the menu items in each of the four footer widget areas.
 * Now here is my idea. I installed the plugin “Linkable Title Html and Php Widget
   by PepLamb” ([http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/linkable-title-html-and-php-widget/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/linkable-title-html-and-php-widget/))
   so that I could hopefully add php code that would retrieve the menu’s from the
   main site. This way if I make changes in the custom menu’s they will appear in
   all the subsites as well.
 * In my subsites, I used the following code in the widget using the php plugin,
   which gave me a list of all the pages in my subsite. However, I am looking to
   have a list of the main site pages I listed in my custom menu in the main site.
 * <?php wp_nav_menu(‘show_home=1&exclude=5,9,23&menu_class=page-navi&sort_column
   =menu_order’); ?>
 * I’m not sure if there is a way to change some of the code above to retrieve the
   menu from the main site, but if there is, your help is greatly appreciated.
 * Thank you.

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-aand-global-widget-menu-using-php/#post-2427003)
 * You can hook into the footer: [http://wpmututorials.com/plugins/how-to-hook-into-the-footer/](http://wpmututorials.com/plugins/how-to-hook-into-the-footer/)
 *  Thread Starter [nycwolverine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nycwolverine/)
 * (@nycwolverine)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-aand-global-widget-menu-using-php/#post-2427090)
 * Thank you for the speedy response!
 * I tried to follow the documentation and poked around a little in several of my
   themes php files and came up with this.
 *     ```
       <?php
       function mysite_footer() {
       	do_atomic( 'footer' );
       }
       add_action('wp_footer', 'mysite_footer');
       ?>
       ```
   
 * I placed the above code in the “Linkable Title Html and Php Widget” area I have
   in my footer and I get a parse error.
 * Seeing the error makes me think it obviously shouldn’t go there.
 * That said, where should it go? I don’t think it goes in the footer.php file, 
   but then again maybe I’m wrong.
 * Thank you again.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-aand-global-widget-menu-using-php/#post-2427091)
 * Start with something simpler.
 * Try just putting in `echo "<p>Footer</p>";` to see WHERE it’s outputting, and
   work up from there.

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## Tags

 * [global](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/global/)
 * [menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/menu/)
 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)
 * [network](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/network/)
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-aand-global-widget-menu-using-php/#post-2427091)
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