5th Feb '24
/
10 comments

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:

This is a BricksLabs Pro tutorial.

For full access login below or create your BricksLabs Pro account

Get access to all 621 Bricks code tutorials with BricksLabs Pro

Related Tutorials..

Pro
Nested Meta Box Query Loop Inside a CPT Query Loop in Bricks

Nested Meta Box Query Loop Inside a CPT Query Loop in Bricks

This Pro tutorial provides the steps for setting up a cloneable Meta Box group query inside a CPT query in Bricks. Scenario: CPT: course Meta…
Categories:
How to Show Future Events in Bricks

How to Show Future Events in Bricks

One of the common requirements in WordPress is being able to filter the events (or could be posts of any post type) to only those…
Categories:
How to create a dynamic infinite logo slider with ACF and Bricks

How to create a dynamic infinite logo slider with ACF and Bricks

This tutorial provides the builder settings, PHP & CSS codes that can be pasted in order to create an infinite logo slider in pure CSS…
Pro
Posts from Random Categories in Bricks

Posts from Random Categories in Bricks

Updated on 31 Jul 2023 In BricksLabs Facebook group a user asked: How would you query 3 WordPress posts from 3 different categories with Brick…
Pro
Ordering Posts by Terms in Bricks

Ordering Posts by Terms in Bricks

How to output upcoming events at the top and past events below in a single query loop in Bricks.
Categories:
Pro
Masonry for Query Loop in Bricks

Masonry for Query Loop in Bricks

If you are looking to implement masonry with a 'view more' button i.e., click-type of infinite scroll follow this tutorial instead. Updated on 15 Mar…
Categories:
Pro
Posts Grouped by Month and Year in Bricks

Posts Grouped by Month and Year in Bricks

Nesting query loops with months & years in descending order, with the inner loop outputting the posts.
Categories:
Pro
Conditionally Outputting Query Loop Item Based on Post Meta in Bricks

Conditionally Outputting Query Loop Item Based on Post Meta in Bricks

Rendering query-loop enabled posts depending on the value of each post's custom field value is tricky because by default, the custom field plugins' functions or…
Categories: