[Resolved] Modify item in secondary menu through php

[Terry]

I have a page, virginiaavp.org, that translates between English and Spanish, using the Divi theme. If you go there, you’ll see that if you click on Espanol? it switches to English? I want to do the same thing on a new GP site. I’m using the following php to make the switch. Can I do the same thing by using a GP hook?

Note the use of $et_secondary_nav. That would obviously have to be a different variable, as it’s a Divi variable.

`if ( is_page( ‘home-page-espanol’ ) || is_page( ‘spanish-page’ ) || is_page( ‘spanish-version’ )) :
$lang = ‘spanish’;
elseif ( is_front_page() || is_page( ‘english-page’ ) || is_page( ‘english-version’ )) :
$lang = ‘english’;
else :
$lang = $_GET[‘lang’];
if ( is_null($lang)) :
$lang = ‘english’;
endif;
endif;

if ( $lang == ‘english’ ) :
$et_secondary_nav = wp_nav_menu( array(
‘theme_location’ => ‘secondary-menu’,
‘container’ => ”,
‘fallback_cb’ => ”,
‘menu_id’ => ‘et-secondary-nav’,
‘echo’ => false,
) );
else :
$et_secondary_nav = wp_nav_menu( array(
‘theme_location’ => ‘espanol-top’,
‘container’ => ”,
‘fallback_cb’ => ”,
‘menu_id’ => ‘et-secondary-nav’,
‘echo’ => false,
) );
endif;

[Tom]

Hi there,

Where is that code added in the Divi theme?

Are you wanting to use a function instead of a plugin like Polylang or WPML?

[Terry]

It’s in the header. Basically, I have two versions of the primary and secondary menus, one each in English and one in Spanish. When they click on the Espanol button, both menus switch to Spanish, and vice versa for English. For each page, I’ve added custom fields with Spanish versions of the text. The users prefer seeing each language on the same page instead of having two different pages. That part is working fine, as you can see by browsing virginiaavp.org. So, I don’t want a plugin like Polylang doing the translation–the users are doing it on each page. What I need help with is in header.php, inserting the php to switch menus. I have separate module, in a page template, that keeps track of whether the current page is English or Spanish. It works fine with Divi, as that’s the theme I was using when I developed virginiaavp, but now I’m using GP and Gutenberg, as I find I can do anything Divi was offering with this combination.

[Tom]

So how are you adding this to GP? Using a Hook Element? Looking at the code, it should work in GP just like it does in Divi.

Personally, I would create a menu and give it a location: secondary-menu

Then, I would filter it and change the location depending on my conditions:

add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_args', function( $args ) {
    if ( 'secondary-menu' === $args['theme_location'] && ( is_page( 'home-page-espanol' ) || is_page( 'spanish-page' ) || is_page( 'spanish-version' ) ) ) {
        $args['theme_location'] = espanol-top;
    }

    return $args;
} );

[Terry]

This worked great, and is much easier to implement. You did have a couple of typos, mainly another right paren after is_page( ‘spanish-version’ ), quotes around ‘espanol-top,’ and a return $args at the bottom, but I’m not complaining. Great job–thanks.

[Tom]

Sorry about that – edited.

Glad it worked! 🙂

[Terry]

Closing this.

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