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How to insert a navigation menu in an Element - Site Footer
3 replies · Started by Michael on July 29, 2021
Is there a way to insert a Navigation Menu into a Footer Element?
I believe there would be, but it won't work for me.
My existing site is made with Generatpress and partially Generateblocks.
I am moving over from Floats to Flexbox and also moving as much as possible to using Generateblocks and the newer functions of Generatepress and WP5.8.
When I currently try to insert a block into my footer (Block element - Site Footer) I cannot see a Navigation Menu (widget or similar) in the Elements blocks menu. However I can see Navigation Menu widgets available if I try to insert it into a Footer Widget (in the widget editor). Note that there are also other widgets missing from blocks but which are in the widget editor, I am not sure if that is related.
The existing (live site) is https://mykoreankitchen.com/
My staging site (where I am doing these changes) is at https://staging-mykoreankitchen.kinsta.cloud/
On staging, I have tried disabling all plugins (including GP and GB), perfmatters and WPRocket are disabled, cache is disabled, no CDN. I also disabled Generatepress and then reenabled again.
Using GP 3.04, GP Premium 2.0.3, Generateblocks 1.3.5 and Generateblocks Pro 1.0.4, PHP 7.4
It looks like someone else had a similar problem (https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/navigation-blocks-not-working-with-generatepress-elements-blocks/). I was not able to resolve it for me though.
Thanks for your help.
- Michael
Hi Michael,
Navigation block isn't included on WP default Gutenberg editor. Consider installing a menu block plugin you can add within the Block editor.
Or if you wish to avoid plugins, consider my suggestion here:
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/navigation-menu-in-block/#post-1643680
Thanks for clarifying that Elvin. I think you mean "Navigation block isn't included on WP default Gutenberg editor".
I checked some of the menu block plugins but all look like they will add too much weight to my site.
For now I will manually make the menu items (as per Leo's tutorials on youtube), and will watch for either WP core or Generateblocks or similar to add a menu block.
Part of my redesign purpose is to reduce plugins.
Michael
Thanks for clarifying that Elvin. I think you mean “Navigation block isn’t included on WP default Gutenberg editor”.
That's right. corrected. Thanks. :D And yeah I believe they removed it on purpose since 5.4.
I checked some of the menu block plugins but all look like they will add too much weight to my site.
The shortcode from the link I've provided is lightweight. It's shortcode snippet w/ pure WP core functions for menus. It's actually what most themes normally do with their navigation, I just made it portable into a shortcode. ;)
