Wordpress naviation menus - wordpress

I am working on wordpress theme developement and navigation menus . But by default the menu items are shown in lists . I want to get menu items as buttons and want to make them dropdowns with bootstrap classes . plz help me

There easiest way to do this is to use off-the-shelf solution. There is a WP_Bootstrap_Navwalker class which extends WordPress' native Walker_Nav_Menu class and makes your Navigation Menus ready for Bootstrap 3. Download it from GitHub.
Second, make it available for WordPress. Add following to the functions.php:
<?php
require_once('path-to-the-directory/wp-bootstrap-navwalker.php');
Change path-to-the-directory/ to fit your needs.
Next, alter your wp_nav_menu() with the following code:
<?php
wp_nav_menu( array(
'menu' => 'header', // match name to yours
'theme_location' => 'header',
'container' => 'div', // no need to wrap `wp_nav_menu` manually
'container_class' => 'collapse navbar-collapse',
'container_id' => 'collapse-1',
'menu_class' => 'nav navbar-nav',
'fallback_cb' => false,
'walker' => new WP_Bootstrap_Navwalker() // Use different Walker
));
Note, that you don't need the <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="collapse-1"> anymore as it will be added by wp_nav_menu() with proper CSS classes and id.
Also, read the WP_Bootstrap_Navwalker README.md file carefully.
originally published here : Add Bootstrap dropdown class to a nav menu

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'theme_location' => 'primary'
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The code you used...
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my menu code is
<div class="nav">
<?php wp_nav_menu(array('menu' => 'topmenu', 'walker' => new description_walker(), 'menu_class' => 'nav', 'container' => false)); ?>
</div>
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so how can i show that?
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<div class="nav">
the second time you declare it in:
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Here is the code I'm using
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Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Thomas
UPDATE: Found this out. Simple fix I overlooked in the Codex
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</ul>
Just needed to add 'fallback_cb' => false to the options.
Just needed to add 'fallback_cb' => false to the options.
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so you can check the content of $menu

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