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Nav Menus Custom Query Types in Bricks

Updated on 21 Aug 2024

This Pro tutorial shows how custom query types for each navigation menu can be generated in Bricks.

This enables us to loop through the menu items of any nav menu and visually build menu items' titles/text linked to their URLs with optional descriptions.

Use case: When a footer from a design set like Frames is imported, delete all but the first list item, enable query loop on it, and select the nav menu from the query type dropdown to make the static items dynamic.

Note: All items of the selected menu will appear at the same level regardless of their hierarchy/depth in the menu. If hierarchy is to be maintained with indentation, you may want to use a Nav Menu element instead of this approach.

Step 1

Add the following in child theme's functions.php (w/o the opening PHP tag) or a code snippets plugin:

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