[Support request] Navigation Menu Block issues

[bjbowen]

I used the Top Bar widget to create the top bar menus.

I added the menus to the Top Bar Widget using the Navigation Menu block.

I then had to position the menus with CSS (not sure why some were styled to specific positions out of the box, but I had to change all of that)

The problem is that the drop-down menus are not working.

Once you hover over the phone, location, or email icons, you *should* see a drop down menu. But, it doesn’t show. (website details are in the Private Information box.)

I started to write the CSS to make this work, but I shouldn’t have to do that.

What is going wrong here? I’ve never had problems adding menus to the Top Bar widget before and I can’t figure out if this is a problem with GeneratePress or a problem with the new WordPress navigation changes.

Can you please help?

[Ying]

Hi there,

The navigation menu widget is a WP legacy widget, GP has no control over it.

I would recommend using Secondary navigation instead:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/secondary-navigation-layout-overview/

[bjbowen]

As WP Theme developers, does your team know why that widget is no longer working properly?

Can’t use the Secondary Nav for this layout.

Thanks!

[Ying]

As WP Theme developers, does your team know why that widget is no longer working properly?

I think WP is turning towards using blocks completely.

You can try using a block element and WP’s navigation block, it should work better.

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