Are you looking for a way to attach a navigation menu to the admin bar? While there’s probably a plugin for this, we have created a quick code snippet that you can use to attach a navigation menu to the admin bar in WordPress.

Instructions:

All you have to do is add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin:

add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', 'wpse15186_admin_bar_menu' ); function wpse15186_admin_bar_menu( &$wp_admin_bar ) { $menu = wp_get_nav_menu_object( 'WPSE 15186 test menu' ); $menu_items = wp_get_nav_menu_items( $menu->term_id ); $wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array( 'id' => 'wpse15186-menu-0', 'title' => 'WPSE 15186 menu', ) ); foreach ( $menu_items as $menu_item ) { $wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array( 'id' => 'wpse15186-menu-' . $menu_item->ID, 'parent' => 'wpse15186-menu-' . $menu_item->menu_item_parent, 'title' => $menu_item->title, 'href' => $menu_item->url, 'meta' => array( 'title' => $menu_item->attr_title, 'target' => $menu_item->target, 'class' => implode( ' ', $menu_item->classes ), ), ) ); } }

Note: If this is your first time adding code snippets in WordPress, then please refer to our guide on how to properly copy / paste code snippets in WordPress, so you don’t accidentally break your site.

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