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SideMenu · support · 2025-05-14T09:37:00+00:00

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Hi I have made a sidemenu in widgets. But My sidebar menu is empty. Can you help me? The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Hi, We’ve seen this before but unfortunately it’s your theme that’s adding extra classes to the SideMenu open icon menu item that’s causing the issue … class="open_sidemenu et_pb_menu_page_id-4536 menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-4536 et-show-dropdown et-hover" It should just be … class="open_sidemenu menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-4536" That extra class is confusing the SideMenu javascript and making it think that there’s special content that you want to show for that button (that doesn’t exist) which is why it’s showing an empty SideMenu panel. The way forward here is to add the open button manually (such as using a shortcode widget or HTML widget) rather than adding it as a menu if that’s possible with your theme. This will prevent your theme from injecting the extra classes that’s breaking the SideMenu open button. Oliver Great thanks! Where can I found the shortcode? If you visit the plugin page and scroll down there is a section entitled “How to use the shortcode”.

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Oliver Campion 2025-05-14T11:04:00+00:00

Hi, We’ve seen this before but unfortunately it’s your theme that’s adding extra classes to the SideMenu open icon menu item that’s causing the issue … class="open_sidemenu et_pb_menu_page_id-4536 menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-4536 et-show-dropdown et-hover" It should just be … class="open_sidemenu menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-4536" That extra class is confusing the SideMenu javascript and making it think that there’s special content that you want to show for that button (that doesn’t exist) which is why it’s showing an empty SideMenu panel. The way forward here is to add the open button manually (such as using a shortcode widget or HTML widget) rather than adding it as a menu if that’s possible with your theme. This will prevent your theme from injecting the extra classes that’s breaking the SideMenu open button. Oliver

pepijk 2025-05-14T11:12:00+00:00

Great thanks! Where can I found the shortcode?

Oliver Campion 2025-05-14T11:21:00+00:00

If you visit the plugin page and scroll down there is a section entitled “How to use the shortcode”.