have main menu assignment persist between theme switches) – WordPress Trac (original) (raw)

#26662 closed enhancement (duplicate)

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Milestone:		Priority:	normal
Severity:	normal	Version:	3.8
Component:	Menus	Keywords:
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When a user switches to a new (never before used) theme, can we somehow assign their previous main menu to the new theme's main location? If we were to standardize on a register_nav_menu location key (say, primary), shouldn't we be able to:

• Check if the new theme has a location called primary
• If a menu is already assigned, use that one (the case when a user switches back to a previously used theme)
• If not, take the last theme's menu assigned to primary and assign it to the new theme's primary location
• If there's no primary location but only one location in the new theme, assign the original location to the only new theme location
• If there's no primary location but many menus, assign it to the first in the array of registered menus