Move Genesis Nav Menu Before or After Header

Jul 7, 2012

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Moving navigation menu’s in Genesis is easy.

By default, Genesis includes 2 menu’s.

A primary and a secondary menu.

To move either of these nav menu’s before or after your header area, simply place this php code in your child theme’s functions.php file.

Go to Appearance > Editor > functions.php

Primary Menu

To move your primary menu above your header, paste this code into your child themes functions file.

/** Move Primary Nav Menu Above Header */

remove_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'genesis_do_nav' );
add_action( 'genesis_before_header', 'genesis_do_nav' );

Secondary Menu

To move your secondary menu above your header, paste this code into your child themes functions file.

/** Move Secondary Nav Menu Above Header */

remove_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'genesis_do_subnav' );
add_action( 'genesis_before_header', 'genesis_do_subnav' );

Moving Primary or Secondary Nav Menu Before or After Header in Genesis

The menu you choose to move must be active in order to move it.

To move a Primary or Secondary nav menu, it must be selected from the drop down and saved so its active.

The WordPress menu system is easy to customize and highly flexible.

You can also place a search box, social media buttons and other functions in your menu’s.

Comments

10 responses to “Move Genesis Nav Menu Before or After Header”

Carlson007

September 9, 2015

How do I move the secondary menu in altitude pro( which is above the header by default) below the header. Thanks.

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1. Brad Dalton
  
  September 9, 2015
  
  Its in the header by default as you can see in the functions file:
  [code]
  //* Reposition the secondary navigation menu
  remove_action( ‘genesis_after_header’, ‘genesis_do_subnav’ );
  add_action( ‘genesis_header’, ‘genesis_do_subnav’, 5 );
  [/code]
  
  You can change the hook in the default code from genesis_header to genesis_after_header however you will nee d to modify the CSS as well which is not something i have worked out or written about at this stage.
  
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Jason Weber

September 19, 2014

I know the snippet and how Genesis operates, but I’m having a heck of a time accomplishing this effect in the Parallax Pro child theme.

I also have a custom functions … I can get the primary nav before the header, but then it pushes the header down to where the sidebar is.

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1. Brad Dalton
  
  September 19, 2014
  
  You need to modify the code in your theme as its coded differently.
  
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Humayun Hashmi

July 23, 2014

it works…. thanks. Can i make this menu responsive and the other one also?

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1. Brad Dalton
  
  July 24, 2014
  
  They are by default.
  
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Martin Messier

June 13, 2014

Thanks, this was really helpful. Sweet and to the point.

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Rofik

November 20, 2013

Nice tips. Lucky that I found this site, I’m trying to change the position of the primary navigation on my genesis framework.

Yeah, I’m a newbie in coding. Thanks Brad..

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1. Brad Dalton
  
  November 20, 2013
  
  Hello Rofik
  
  Did you work it out?
  
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  1. Rofik
    
    November 21, 2013
    
    Yes Brad, it worked well. Now I also found the code to add top navigation instead of reposition the primary navigation. And I can add some css code to make the appearance look better.
    
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