Title: Using custom walker with your plugin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Using custom walker with your plugin

 *  Resolved [liamk3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liamk3/)
 * (@liamk3)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-custom-walker-with-your-plugin/)
 * Hi,
 * I would appreciate any help you can offer with the following issue i am having.
   I would like to use your plugin alongside the functions of my current custom 
   walker. Below is the walker code which i call manually from my template and its
   function is to output modified html and allow me to add a class in the description
   field that gets populated in the correct place within the output. The walker 
   below is perfect for my visual needs, i just require the extra sub-menu functionality
   of your plugin if thats possible? If you cant help, no worries mate. 🙂
 *     ```
       class description_walker extends Walker_Nav_Menu
       {
             function start_el(&$output, $item, $depth, $args)
             {
                  global $wp_query;
                  $indent = ( $depth ) ? str_repeat( "\t", $depth ) : '';
   
                  $class_names = $value = '';
   
                  $classes = empty( $item->classes ) ? array() : (array) $item->classes;
   
                  $class_names = join( ' ', apply_filters( 'nav_menu_css_class', array_filter( $classes ), $item ) );
                  $class_names = ' class="'. esc_attr( $class_names ) . '"';
   
                  $output .= $indent . '<li>';
   
                  $attributes  = ! empty( $item->attr_title ) ? ' title="'  . esc_attr( $item->attr_title ) .'"' : '';
                  $attributes .= ! empty( $item->target )     ? ' target="' . esc_attr( $item->target     ) .'"' : '';
                  $attributes .= ! empty( $item->xfn )        ? ' rel="'    . esc_attr( $item->xfn        ) .'"' : '';
                  $attributes .= ! empty( $item->url )        ? ' href="'   . esc_attr( $item->url        ) .'"' : '';
   
                  $prepend = '<span>';
                  $append = '</span>';
                  $description  = ! empty( $item->description ) ? '<i class="'.esc_attr( $item->description ).'"></i>' : '';
   
                  if($depth != 0)
                  {
                            $description = $append = $prepend = "";
                  }
   
                   $item_output = $args->before;
                   $item_output .= '<a'. $attributes .'>';
                   $item_output .= $description.$args->link_after;
                   $item_output .= $args->link_before .$prepend.apply_filters( 'the_title', $item->title, $item->ID ).$append;
                   $item_output .= '</a>';
                   $item_output .= $args->after;
   
                   $output .= apply_filters( 'walker_nav_menu_start_el', $item_output, $item, $depth, $args );
                   }
       }
       ```
   
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 *  Plugin Author [jcollings](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcollings/)
 * (@jcollings)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-custom-walker-with-your-plugin/#post-5035970)
 * Hi,
    You can alter the item for each element using the jcs/menu_item_args filter,
   this should hopefully allow you to make the changes to the html you need.
 * Documentation for this filter can be found here:
    [http://jamescollings.co.uk/docs/v1/jc-submenu/actions-filters/jcsmenu_item_args/](http://jamescollings.co.uk/docs/v1/jc-submenu/actions-filters/jcsmenu_item_args/)
 *  Thread Starter [liamk3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liamk3/)
 * (@liamk3)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-custom-walker-with-your-plugin/#post-5035980)
 * Hi mate,
 * Worked a treat using the filter above switching ‘$item->description’.
 * I looked at that documentation late last night but dismissed it as being unsuitable,
   think i needed to get to bed. 🙂
    Thank you so much for taking time out of your
   day to point me in a solid direction. Much appreciated.
 * Liam

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 * Last reply from: [liamk3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liamk3/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-custom-walker-with-your-plugin/#post-5035980)
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