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Question

I have combined bootstrap and wordpress. I have found 2 articles and gists that provide a walker and some markup to add to get a dropdown navigational menu working properly.
I have tried several times to incorporate the walker, but all I get is just a blank vertical menu that can't be seen except for bullets. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
Ok, here is what I have done. http://twittem.github.com/wp-bootstrap-navwalker/ I have followed the instructions here. I created a new twitter_bootstrap_nav_walker.php file, just like it said. I have placed it in the correct place. The wp_nav_menu() (code), I wasn't sure where to put this, one person said to put it into mt header, another said to put it in nav_menu_template.php. When I put it to the template, I get a syntax error within dreamweaver. When I added the code to the header.php file, I get a fatal error. Scott, thanks for showing me something new but I am not looking to start over

Answer 1

The markup/code below is working for me. You may or may not want the user login code in the header.
in header.php
<div id="page-navbar" class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-static-top">
<div class="navbar-inner">
<div class="container-fluid">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-navbar" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse">
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
<a class="brand" href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a>
<div class="nav-collapse collapse">
<p class="navbar-text pull-right">
<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>
<i class="icon-user"></i> <?php echo $current_user->display_name; ?>
<?php else : ?>
<i class="icon-signin"></i> Sign In
<?php endif ?>
</p>
<?php wp_nav_menu(array(
'depth' => 2,
'container' => false,
'menu_class' => 'nav',
'walker' => new Bootstrap_Walker_Nav_Menu()
)); ?>
</div><!--/.nav-collapse -->
</div>
</div>
</div>
The Bootstrap_Walker_Nav_Menu class comes from John Megahan.
class Bootstrap_Walker_Nav_Menu extends Walker_Nav_Menu {
function start_lvl( &$output, $depth = 0, $args = array()) {
$indent = str_repeat( "\t", $depth );
$output .= "\n$indent<ul class=\"dropdown-menu\">\n";
}
function start_el( &$output, $item, $depth = 0, $args = array(), $id = 0 ) {
$indent = ( $depth ) ? str_repeat( "\t", $depth ) : '';
$li_attributes = '';
$class_names = $value = '';
$classes = empty( $item->classes ) ? array() : (array) $item->classes;
$classes[] = ($args->has_children) ? 'dropdown' : '';
$classes[] = ($item->current || $item->current_item_ancestor) ? 'active' : '';
$classes[] = 'menu-item-' . $item->ID;
$class_names = join( ' ', apply_filters( 'nav_menu_css_class', array_filter( $classes ), $item, $args ) );
$class_names = ' class="' . esc_attr( $class_names ) . '"';
$id = apply_filters( 'nav_menu_item_id', 'menu-item-'. $item->ID, $item, $args );
$id = strlen( $id ) ? ' id="' . esc_attr( $id ) . '"' : '';
$output .= $indent . '<li' . $id . $value . $class_names . $li_attributes . '>';
$attributes = ! empty( $item->attr_title ) ? ' title="' . esc_attr( $item->attr_title ) .'"' : '';
$attributes .= ! empty( $item->target ) ? ' target="' . esc_attr( $item->target ) .'"' : '';
$attributes .= ! empty( $item->xfn ) ? ' rel="' . esc_attr( $item->xfn ) .'"' : '';
$attributes .= ! empty( $item->url ) ? ' href="' . esc_attr( $item->url ) .'"' : '';
$attributes .= ($args->has_children) ? ' class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown"' : '';
$item_output = $args->before;
$item_output .= '<a'. $attributes .'>';
$item_output .= $args->link_before . apply_filters( 'the_title', $item->title, $item->ID ) . $args->link_after;
$item_output .= ($args->has_children) ? ' <b class="caret"></b></a>' : '</a>';
$item_output .= $args->after;
$output .= apply_filters( 'walker_nav_menu_start_el', $item_output, $item, $depth, $args );
}
function display_element( $element, &$children_elements, $max_depth, $depth=0, $args, &$output ) {
if ( !$element )
return;
$id_field = $this->db_fields['id'];
//display this element
if ( is_array( $args[0] ) )
$args[0]['has_children'] = ! empty( $children_elements[$element->$id_field] );
else if ( is_object( $args[0] ) )
$args[0]->has_children = ! empty( $children_elements[$element->$id_field] );
$cb_args = array_merge( array(&$output, $element, $depth), $args);
call_user_func_array(array(&$this, 'start_el'), $cb_args);
$id = $element->$id_field;
// descend only when the depth is right and there are childrens for this element
if ( ($max_depth == 0 || $max_depth > $depth+1 ) && isset( $children_elements[$id]) ) {
foreach( $children_elements[ $id ] as $child ){
if ( !isset($newlevel) ) {
$newlevel = true;
//start the child delimiter
$cb_args = array_merge( array(&$output, $depth), $args);
call_user_func_array(array(&$this, 'start_lvl'), $cb_args);
}
$this->display_element( $child, $children_elements, $max_depth, $depth + 1, $args, $output );
}
unset( $children_elements[ $id ] );
}
if ( isset($newlevel) && $newlevel ){
//end the child delimiter
$cb_args = array_merge( array(&$output, $depth), $args);
call_user_func_array(array(&$this, 'end_lvl'), $cb_args);
}
//end this element
$cb_args = array_merge( array(&$output, $element, $depth), $args);
call_user_func_array(array(&$this, 'end_el'), $cb_args);
}
}