Good work!

Does my plugin work for you in multisite without the “Network: True” set?

Hi @collimarco,

I just noticed this post. I never got a notification that you posted.

The plugin has not been tested with WPML. I am not sure if it is compatible or not. If you try it, please post back with your results.

I don’t use multisite, and consequently haven’t tested the plugin with it, so the problem you are seeing is most likely due to that, though it could be a conflict with another plugin or theme.

All the Menu In Post plugin really does is use a shortcode to add a menu using modified WordPress functions, and from what I’ve found searching the Internet, shortcodes in plugins and multisite may have issues.

I found this post with a workaround (enable the plugin on all sites to use the plugin on a subsite) as well as a suggested fix.

I would try the following to see if it works if you don’t want to enable the plugin on all sites.

Edit the file menu-in-post.php (on single site, it’s in wp-content/plugins/menu-in-post), and add:

Network: True

to the end of the comments at the top so it looks like this:

/**
 * Plugin Name: Menu In Post
 * Description: A simple but flexible plugin to add menus to a post or page.
 * Author: linux4me
 * Author URI: https://profiles.wordpress.org/linux4me
 * Text Domain: menu-in-post
 * Version: 1.1.8
 * License: GPL3
 * License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html
 * Network: True
 */

After you’ve modified and saved the file, activate the plugin from the Network Admin. According to what I’ve found, that should make the shortcodes used by Menu In Post active on all your sites.

I can’t test this, but the main thing is that if you try the fix, you want a network install of the plugin, and the modification to the file adding “Network: True”.

Please let me know what you find out.

Hi Vishan,

If you can set up a menu for the listing pages in WP Admin > Appearance > Menus, then I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.

I’m glad you like the plugin.

You can add CSS to customize the look of the menus in WordPress Admin > Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS, or in the style.css of your child theme.

Arranging the 3-4 drop-down menus horizontally is also something you would do with custom CSS. If you provide a link to the page you’re working on, I, or someone else here, will take a look and try to help you out.

While you’re doing this kind of thing, you will find the developer tools that come with Chrome and Firefox very helpful. You can right-click an element on a web page–like one of your drop-down menus–and choose “Inspect” from the pop-up menu to open the Developer Tools panel, which will show you the CSS assigned to any particular element as well as allow you to add your own CSS to test live before you add anything to your site.

I don’t like the look of a wrapping horizontal menu. I think what I would do is wrap your custom code in a media query, so that the menu displays vertically unless the device/display is wide enough for the menu to display horizontally without wrapping.

For example, say your menu starts wrapping when the display is less than 768 pixels wide, your CSS would look something like:

@media only screen and (min-width: 768px) {
    .inlinemenu {
        float: none;
      padding-right: 25px;
      padding: -20px;
      padding-bottom: 10px;
      width: -3px;
      height: 0px;
      top: 9px;
      margin: 0px;
      list-style: none;
    }
}

You can use your browser’s developer tools’ mobile view to test the width to see what you need to substitute for the 768 pixels. Both Chrome and Firefox have that capability.