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As you know, Menubar adds configurable menus to your WordPress site.

But, what if your theme already features a native menu?

Don’t worry, you can use Menubar to enhance the native menu of a WordPress theme, adding the Menubar configurability to the existing menu.

All you need is a special Menubar template and instructions. The procedure is slightly different for each theme, so in this post we’ll add Menubar configurability to a well known WordPress theme, iNove 1.4.6 by mg12 (see picture), in six easy steps.

1) Install and activate the iNove theme.
2) Install and activate the Menubar plugin.
3) Download and install the ‘inove’ Menubar template.
4) Create a new menu with Name: my-inove and Template: inove without CSS.
5) Open the file wp-content/themes/inove/templates/header.php, locate the lines

<!-- menus START -->

and

<!-- menus END -->

delete the eleven lines in between, and replace them with the call to Menubar.
The final result should be:

<!-- menus START -->
<?php do_action ('wp_menubar', 'my-inove'); ?>
<!-- menus END -->

6) Add a few menu items to your menu, and enjoy your iNove menu with the configurability of Menubar! The first menu item should be a FrontPage type, if you wish to see the little house icon on it. The actual name of the menu my-inove is not important, as long as you use the same menu name in steps 4) and 5).

If you wish to enhance the native menu of your favorite theme with Menubar, please let me know and I’ll try my best to write the special template and instructions for you.