WooCommerce: Add WP Menu to WC Pages via PHP

It’s pretty easy to add another custom menu to your WooCommerce pages via PHP. For example, you might want to add a list of Product Category links, and manage this through the default “Appearance > Menu” in the WordPress dashboard.

WP Dashboard > Appearance > Menu: create a new menu

Create a new menu called “Categories” and add the product categories you wish to it.

Create a new menu in WordPress

PHP Snippet: Add WP menu to WooCommerce pages


/**
 * @snippet       Add WP menu to WooCommerce pages
 * @how-to        businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-customization
 * @sourcecode    https://businessbloomer.com/?p=22012
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli, Business Bloomer
 * @testedwith    WooCommerce 2.5.2
 */

add_action( 'woocommerce_before_main_content', 'bbloomer_echo_categories_menu' );

function bbloomer_echo_categories_menu() {
wp_nav_menu( array( 'menu' => 'categories', 'container_id' => 'nav_menu-2' ) );
}

Where to add custom code?

You should place custom PHP in functions.php and custom CSS in style.css of your child theme: where to place WooCommerce customization?

This code still works, unless you report otherwise. To exclude conflicts, temporarily switch to the Storefront theme, disable all plugins except WooCommerce, and test the snippet again: WooCommerce troubleshooting 101

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Rodolfo Melogli

Business Bloomer Founder

Author, WooCommerce expert and WordCamp speaker, Rodolfo has worked as an independent WooCommerce freelancer since 2011. His goal is to help entrepreneurs and developers overcome their WooCommerce nightmares. Rodolfo loves travelling, chasing tennis & soccer balls and, of course, wood fired oven pizza. Follow @rmelogli

8 thoughts on “WooCommerce: Add WP Menu to WC Pages via PHP

  1. Hi, thanks for your help. I tried but I received this answer from wordpress

    Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function avia_get_header_scroll_offset() in wp-content/themes/enfold/css/dynamic-css.php:1005
    Stack trace:
    #0 wp-content/themes/enfold/includes/admin/register-dynamic-styles.php(159): require()
    #1 wp-content/themes/enfold/functions.php(696): avia_prepare_dynamic_styles()
    #2 wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(287): avia_custom_styles('')
    #3 wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(311): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array)
    #4 wp-includes/plugin.php(478): WP_Hook->do_action(Array)
    #5 wp-settings.php(540): do_action('init')
    #6 wp-config.php(89): require_once('/web/htdocs/www...')
    #7 wp-load.php(37): require_once('/web/htdocs/www...')
    #8 wp-admin/admin.php(34): r
    

    I guess your code is causing a conflict with my theme? I’m using Enfold Theme

    1. I guess so

  2. THANK YOU for this! But Can I add a class to this? I want it to match my header menu with this same class:

    Where would I insert the code to make it pull this one instead?

    1. Hey Kimberly thanks for your comment! If you take a look at https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_nav_menu/, you can see you can also declare a parameter called “menu_class”. That should help 🙂

  3. Hi Rodolfo,
    Thanks for the code!
    Is there a way to tweak this further, if we need a separate custom menu for each product?

    1. Hey Shruti, thanks for your comment! Yes, of course, you could take a look at my conditional logic guide to see how to target a specific product ID: https://businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-conditional-logic-ultimate-php-guide/

  4. Thank you for the code 🙂

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