[Support request] primary nav in footer

[Marcel]

Hi, there.

I am having lots of fun setting up a website with GeneratePress Premium.
I’m quite sure that I read the answer to my question at a certain point in one of the support-threads, but I didn’t bookmark it and now I simply cannot find it anymore….
My question is:

Is there ANY way to place the primary menu (including the search button) inside the footer-area instead of somewhere around the top of the page?

Thanks a lot.

Marcel

[Leo]

Hi Marcel,

You can add a Custom Menu widget and a Search widget in one of the Footer Widgets area in Dashboard > Appearance Widget.

Let me know if this helps.

[Marcel]

Hi Leo,

I’ve already tried that. It did not quite satisfy my ambitious eye…
You know, when arranged inline in the primary navigation, search-button on the far right, the menu looks exactely the way I like it.
I just want to put that horizontal bar in the footer-bar (sorry for not describing that precisely in my
initial question).

I am aiming for an appearance with fixed header and fixed footer-bar (already managed that with the hooks add-on). The content (blog posts, fully shown) is scrolled through between those two areas.
I intend to attach two images with their bottom to the top-edge of the footer-bar (one to the far left, one to the far right of the screen – another challenge I have not yet mastered), so the contend seems to scroll up from behind those ‘foreground’-images.
The footer-bar with those two images graphically becomes the ‘center of gravity’ – so I’d like to have my 4 links (and that nice and tiny magnifying-glass-search-button) down-there as well.

I hope my description is understandable as the site is not yet online and I therefore am not able to SHOW you, what the heck I’m talking about, here….

Thanks for giving it a try, anyway!

Marcel

[Leo]

Have you tried adding the Custom Menu widget in the new Footer Bar widget area? Then it should be inline?

Definitely not easy to picture what you are after. A screenshot or examples from other sites maybe helpful 🙂

[Marcel]

I did.
It’s okay. But the search-button was missing.

How can I send you a screenshot?

[Leo]

You can upload it to https://postimage.io/ and post the direct link here.

[Marcel]

There you go:
https://s27.postimg.org/m8dhjzp1f/screenshot.png

[Marcel]

Thw primary menu is visible at the top of the page.
The menu inside the footer-bar lacks the search-icon.

[Tom]

If you want to move the actual primary navigation, you can do this:

add_action('after_setup_theme','tu_move_navigation');
function tu_move_navigation()
{
      remove_action( 'generate_after_header', 'generate_add_navigation_after_header', 5 );
      add_action( 'generate_before_footer', 'generate_add_navigation_after_header', 5 );
}

This assumes your primary navigation is set to the below the header in the Customizer.

[Marcel]

Hi, Tom.
That looks very much like the snippet I found (and lost again) earlier in the support-forum.

I don’t have the slightest idea, where to insert it, though.
Just getting started with WordPress. Sorry.

Marcel

[Leo]

Adding PHP: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-php/

[Marcel]

I created a snippet using the code snippets plugin.
Doesn’t seem to have changed anything though.
Do I have to clear the footer-bar first?

[Leo]

Just tested the code and it’s working for me.

Shouldn’t matter if you have existing content in footer bar already.

Is the Navigation Location set to Below Header in Customizer > Layout > Primary Navigation?

[Tom]

Make sure the code snippet is actually activated.

Then make sure your primary navigation is set to Below Header.

[Lyle]

Just to jump in here regarding Code Snippets. The “Save Changes” button is what got me the first time using it; nothing seemed to change when I clicked it. Then I read the button beside it … “Save Changes and Activate” …. that’s the one to click 🙂

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