Menu issues

[mven]

I’m running into an issue where my menus are being improperly displayed. The only page that actually works like it should is the single. I am using a custom template I’ve built and I did turn this off, using a default WordPress theme, and I don’t run into this issue.

I’ve dug around some and noticed that the pages where the menus are messed up, they are calling all the subpages/children of the parent. As I’ve said before, this doesn’t happen in the single template and it’s using the same get_header() code.

I’m at a loss as to what is going on here. Any ideas?

[Barry]

It’s hard to say; one thing that frequently causes problems with menus is the use of default permalinks, so if your URLs look like:

abc.com/?p=123

Then please try enabling “pretty” permalinks instead, as this is virtually a requirement of our plugin:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

Beyond that it’s difficult to provide much advice since right now we can’t access your site. I hope the above steps help, however. If not and you can post screenshots or share code I might be able to offer a couple of other suggestions.

[mven]

Awesome. This worked for me. Any idea why the cal pro plugin would do something like that for non-pretty permalinks?

[Barry]

It’s design simply assumes “pretty” permalinks – which have in a sense become the de facto standard for permalinks – and some of the libraries used under the hood to help with permalink-related logic just don’t play nicely with default permalinks, unfortunately.

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