Installing minimal Menu plugin

After donwloading installation from codecanyon.net in order to install the plugin, from WordPress back end, navigate to Plugins > Add New, and then click on Upload Plugin and select downloaded installation .zip file and finally click on Install Now:

After installation, Activate plugin.

Note: In case that you have downloaded compleate installation with documnetation, then first unzip downloaded .zip arhive file in order to install minimal-menu.zip. If you try to install .zip file which contain both plugin installation and documentation, installation will fail.

minimal Menu Integration

When minimal menu is actiavted and configured, default theme menu will be replaced with Hamburger Menu icon which wil reveal off canvas menu on click, or you can replace several menus, so if you decide to use some other menu, it will also use minimal Menu Off Canvas layout. In order to set it up, you first need to assign one of your menus to one of theme predefined menu locations. Navigate to Appereance > Minimal Menu Options > General, and select one of your menus, or create a new one, assign it to menu location and finally Save Changes.

Finally navigate to Appereance > Minimal Menu Options > General, previously assigned menu, or select multiple menus with Ctrl + Click method, and then Save Changes.

With these few steps, menu is ready to be used, and it will be displayed instead of default theme menu.

Clicking on Hamburger menu will open minimal Menu.

In few steps eabove, you saw a glimpse of Minimal Menu Options, and we will cover all of them in following chapter.

Manual Integration

Note: For manual integration, user will need to possess intermediate coding knowledge.

Usage:

<?php minimalmenu_manual($args); ?>

Default arguments:

$args = array(
   'theme_location' => '',
   'menu' => ''
);

Parameters:

'menu'

Required - Pass selected menu to this argument so you can initialize minimal Menu for it. If you do not pass 'menu' argument, minimal Menu will call menu which was created first.

'theme_location'

Optional - You can pass the theme location if you want, but it is not mandatory, and minimal Menu requires only 'menu' argument in order to initialize it for the selected menu.

To find the menu you want to integrate go to Appearence > Menus. Edit existing menu, or create new. When done, copy the Menu Name, and then pass it to the 'menu' argument when calling minimal Menu.

Then go to theme files (usually header.php) and paste integration function where you want it.

Example:

<?php
  //pass the selected menu to the arguments array (In this example I will be using Header Menu)
  $args = array( 'menu' => 'Header Menu' ); 

  //call minimal Menu
  minimalmenu_manual($args);
?>

minimal Menu Options

You can access Minimal Menu Options from Appereance > Minimal Menu Options. While there, you will see several tabs on the left and accessing each one will reveal several set of opstions.

Note: For each option which is expecting value, line margin, padding, font size, you just need to type value in. Do not add px at the end unless instructed differently by option description.

All options are self explanatory, but we will list and cover them briefly for each option tab.

GENERAL

Name	Description
MENU NAME	Select Menu that will be integrated as Minimal Menu.
MENU ALIGNMENT	Select Minimal Menu Navigation alignment
MENU SHADOW	Enable or disable box shadow for the menu container.
PUSH ANIMATION	Choose to enable, or disable push animation applied to the website while menu is entering from the side.
ENTRANCE ANIMATION DURATION	Enter the duration of the entrance animation. Value will be calculated in milliseconds.
SUBMENU ELEMENTS ANIMATION	Choose to enable, or disable submenu menu items appear animation once menu is opened.
LOGO, Text, Text Color, Text size	Upload your logo image, or choose to display text as logo. Image will have priority over text, so if you want to display text, you need to make sure that no image is added, or remove one is set.
BUTTON, Button Layout, Button Color, Close Button Color, Button Top Offset, Button Side Offset	Set button layout, text and color.
MENU POSITION	Select the position of the Minimal Menu menu. Choose either to place to the left side, or right side of the screen.

CUSTOMIZE

Name	Description
MINIMAL MENU MENU WIDTH	Edit Minimal Menu menu width. Value will be calculated in px. Only number input is allowed.
Minimal MENU WIDTH ON MOBILE DEVICES	Edit Minimal Menu menu max width on mobile devices.
LOGO STYLING, Width, Height, Position From Top	Customize your logo, set it margins and width and height properties.
MENU BACKGROUND, BG color, BG image, position, size	Select Menu background color, or image. If image and color are used the background image will be visible, as it holds priority over color. For Background size you can enter cover, contain or custom value for width and height. For background position enter position for x and y axis.
MENU NAVIGATION TOP MARGIN	Set the top margin for the main menu.
MENU TEXT, Font size, Line Height	Change Main font and font-size of Minimal Menu menu.
MENU TEXT TRANSFORM	Select menu text transform.
TEXT PADDING, Top, Bottm, Left, Right	Edit text padding of Minimal Menu menu.
TEXT MARGIN, Top, Bottm, Left, Right	Edit text margin of Minimal Menu menu.
MENU ITEMS STYLES, Text color, Hover color	Change menu elements style when user hovers them with the mouse.
SUBMENU TEXT, Font Stize, Line Height, Text Transform	Change submenu font and font-size.
SUBMENUS STYLES, Text color, Hover color, Dropdown Animation Speed, Dropdown Open/Close Trigger	Change submenus text font-size, color and line height.
CUSTOM CSS	Add custom CSS that will be applied to Minimal Menu menu.

WIDGETS

minimal Menu have one widget area, Minimal Menu Bottom Sidebar and it isabsolutely positioned at the bottom part of the menu. Placing widgets inside this widget area will disaply widgets at the bottom portion of minimal Menu. You can access widget area from Appearance > Widgets.

Beside this widget area for some custom content, there is also search widget which comes with minimal Menu, and it is named Minimal Menu Search. Options for this widget are self explanatory, and only specific which we have to point out is that when widget is used, it will be absolutely positioned at the top of the menu just below logo..

Name	Description
WIDGET TEXT, Font Size, Line Height, Titles Color, Text Color	Change widget text font-size, color and line height.
AFTER BOTTOM WIDGET LINKS, Displayed In After Menu Widget, Display Links	Choose to display social links, or login/logut and register links. Those links will be displayed at the bottom of after menu widget area.
SOCIAL LINKS TOP OFFSET	Change social links area top offset. You can enter value in px, em or %.
SOCIAL LINK COLOR	Select link color for social icons or login/log out links.
SOCIAL LINKS, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Instagram	Add Social links to the bottom of after menu widget area.
LOGIN/REGISTER LINKS, Login text, Logout text, Register Text, Login Link	Add Login/logout and register links to the botom of after menu widget area. This will create links to default wordpress login and register pages, if you have custom pages you can add your links.

IMPORT and EXPORT

These options allows your to export current settings and to import them later on.

Credits

List of the resources used with minimal Menu WordPress plugin:

• nanoScrollerJS
• Overthrow
• Tendina
• OWL Carousel

Copyright

Copyright © 2017 Pressfore