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Hello Elementor Theme Basic

The theme registers two WordPress navigation menus, one for the header and the other footer. Developers can override this using a filter hook in a child-theme.

Hook Details

  • Hook Type: Filter Hook
  • Hook Name: hello_elementor_register_menus
  • Default Value: true

The hook controls whether the theme's navigation menus should be registered or not. By default it's set to true, however developers can prevent the theme from registering navigation menus.

Usage

To prevent the theme from registering the default navigation menus, use the following hook in a child-theme functions.php file:

php
add_filter( 'hello_elementor_register_menus', '__return_false' );

To register custom navigation menus, use the WordPress native register_nav_menus() function as follows:

php
register_nav_menus( [ 'my-header-menu' => esc_html__( 'Header Menu', 'textdomain' ) ] );
register_nav_menus( [ 'my-footer-menu' => esc_html__( 'Footer Menu', 'textdomain' ) ] );
register_nav_menus( [ 'my-mobile-menu' => esc_html__( 'Mobile Menu', 'textdomain' ) ] );