Genesis Menu duplicating instead of moving

Question

I am working on a genesis site where I need to move the standard nav menu to above the header. I'm using the following code in the functions.php file of my child theme:

remove_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'genesis_do_nav' );
add_action( 'genesis_before_header', 'genesis_do_nav' );

It's adding a nav menu before the header, but not removing the one after the header. The "after header" one is correctly placed in the output, so I know I'm using the correct hook on the "remove_action". There is nothing else in my functions.php file that is dealing with the nav other than specifying a menu for the footer and adding the descriptions. Below is all the code in my functions.php file (skipping a large section dealing with column shortcodes):

add_action('genesis_setup','child_theme_setup', 15);
function child_theme_setup() {
    //Add Homepage Sidebar
    genesis_register_sidebar( array( 'name' =>
    'Home Sidebar', 'id' => 'home-sidebar' ) );
    //Adds footer widgets
    add_theme_support( 'genesis-footer-widgets', 6 );
    //Adds Footer Text Replace
    remove_action( 'genesis_footer', 'genesis_do_footer' );
    remove_action('genesis_footer', 'genesis_footer_markup_open', 5);
    remove_action('genesis_footer', 'genesis_footer_markup_close', 15);
    add_action( 'genesis_after', 'be_footer' );
}

//Function to replace the footer text and copyright
function be_footer() {
    echo '<div id="footer" class="footer"><div class="footer-wrap"><div class="left"><p>© Copyright ' . date('Y') . ' RC Auto |<a href="http://www.watrousmedia.com/">Watrous Media</a></p></div>';
    echo '<div class="right">';
    wp_nav_menu( array( 'menu' => 'footer' ) );
    echo '</div></div></div>';
}
//Add Menu Descriptions
function be_add_description( $item_output, $item ) {
$description = $item->post_content;
if (' ' !== $description )
return preg_replace( '/(<a.*?>[^<]*?)</', '$1' . '<span>' . $description . '</span><', $item_output);
else
return $item_output;
}
add_filter( 'walker_nav_menu_start_el', 'be_add_description', 10, 2 );

// Use shortcodes in widgets
add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode' );

/** Move primary nav menu to before header for mobile support*/
remove_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'genesis_do_nav' );
add_action( 'genesis_before_header', 'genesis_do_nav' );

Here's a screenshot:

Notice the duplicated menu on top and bottom

The Main menu is the styled one added in a widget as I needed it in the header. The main menu I am planning on using as the responsive mobile menu. Anyone know why the lower nav is not removing?

Thanks for your help.

Kaela Kaela · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-11T21:03:24

I also had this issue, adding the following code at the start of the child theme's functions.php file fixed it:

require_once( get_template_directory() . '/lib/init.php' );

You can also move remove_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'genesis_do_nav' ); inside your child_theme_setup() function.

Requiring init.php will ensure that the genesis framework is initialized first, so everything after it in your functions file will be able to reference genesis functions. If you are using the genesis_setup action, you'll need to make sure functions that require the genesis framework for reference are run inside that function.

Genesis Menu duplicating instead of moving

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