Get a list of all menu locations in a WordPress theme

Find out in this tutorial how to get a list of all menu locations registered by a WordPress theme using code.

Depending on the theme you have installed you will have different menu areas or locations registered (header, footer…). Therefore, if you want to modify only the menu that is in a certain location you will need to know what it is called.

Therefore, in this tutorial you are going to see how to get a list of all the menu locations that a theme has.

Snippet to get all the menu locations of a WordPress theme

In this snippet you use the get_nav_menu_locations function to get all the locations that a theme has registered and display it using the PHP function print_r.

Here you have a couple of examples of what it will show you:

• Twenty Twenty-One Theme: Array ( [primary] => 2 [footer] => 2 )
  • 2 locations: primary and footer
• Genesis Sample Theme: Array ( [primary] => 2 [secondary] => 2 )
  • 2 locations: primary and secondary

Remember to delete the snippet once you have obtained the locations.

Conclusions

Now you know how to get a list with all the menu locations registered by a WordPress theme.

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