/** * @article Dropdown menus & * Walker_Nav_Menu * * @since October 5, 2010 * @package Wordpress * * @tags nav menus, * walker class * @comments 2 comments * */
Spent the day learning a little more about the walker class that handles WordPress 3.x’s nav_menu structure. I can’t say it was easy. Having to extend Walker_Nav_Menu and overwrite the instance methods just to do something as simple as adding a <span> element within a list item seems a little counterintuitive. But for now, this is the best and most extensible way of handling menus that the user may need to update, so it seems worth knowing about.