Just tick the Auto add pages checkbox and click Save. New top-level pages will then be automatically added to the menu you have selected.<\/p>\n If, however, you also want submenu pages to be automatically added to menus, then a little fiddling with code is required.<\/p>\n In this post, I’m going to show you how to create an automated navigation menu that displays all of the pages in your site, with child pages shown as second level entries in the navigation menu.<\/p>\n You can then add this code to your page header in your theme, or to your sidebar or footer if you want, and it will give your users links that automatically update when new content is added to your site.<\/p>\n Continue reading, or jump ahead using these links:<\/p>\n To follow along with this post, you’ll need:<\/p>\n All of the code is on GitHub<\/a> so if you get stuck, you can interrogate that to see what you should be doing.<\/p>\n I’m going to add this code to a plugin so that I’ve still got it if I should change my theme in future. That way, I can then code the function from my plugin into my theme to add the navigation menu or section menu in the right place. If your theme has hooks, you could use one or more of those to add your code.<\/p>\n If you’re working with a third party theme that doesn’t have hooks, you’ll have to add code to the theme. Don’t code this directly into the theme: instead, create a child theme<\/a> and add your code to that. Just make a duplicate of the theme template file from the parent theme that you want to edit, add that to your child theme and edit it.<\/p>\n The first step is to create the plugin. I’m creating a folder for mine in my wp-content\/plugins<\/em> folder. Creating a folder means I can add more files to the plugin in future if I need to, such as a stylesheet or include files.<\/p>\n First you need to add the opening code to your plugin, in comments, to tell WordPress what this is:<\/p>\n![\"Auto](\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/menu-auto-add-pages.png\")
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What You’ll Need to Automate WordPress Navigation Menus<\/h2>\n
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Setting up the Code<\/h2>\n