How to Hook Inside Top Bar?

[jhmattern]

On a private dev site I’m adding a menu to the top bar (not using the secondary navigation because I’m already using both navigation bars in other places). I can add a basic menu fine using the top bar widget area.

However…

I have a custom function to add login/logout links and a “my account” link for logged-in users to the end of the menu I need in the top bar. And this doesn’t work if the menu is pulled in via a widget area. It needs a menu theme location.

I already did this successfully in my footer menu by registering a new menu and using GP hooks to add that menu before the copyright notice. But I can’t seem to do the same in the top bar because there doesn’t seem to be a way to hook into it.

Is there a hook option I’m missing that will let me insert a newly registered menu inside the top bar?

I saw another support thread where it was suggested the “before_header” hook would work, but it doesn’t. When I do that, it inserts my new menu (including the login/logout links) under the top bar and before the header rather than within the top bar.

Is there any way to hook inside that top bar directly?

Thanks!

[David]

Hi there,

there is no Hook within the Top Bar.
You could of course just create your own top bar container using the before_header hook.

What else needs to go in the Top bar ?

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[jhmattern]

Would that lose the ability to use other widgets there though? I currently have a widget for social media icons floating left and need the menu floating right.

[jhmattern]

Nevermind on this for now. I think it might make more sense to just merge the secondary nav back into the top bar and try to use a hook to create the lower bar beneath my primary nav. So I’m going to mark this resolved for now and will revisit if I can’t get that alternative to work.

[Tom]

Sounds good – just re-open this topic if you need to 🙂

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[jhmattern]

No need. The other option worked out great. Thanks!

[Tom]

Awesome, thanks for letting us know 🙂

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