Advanced Header Featured
A data-carrier block inside the Advanced Header. It links a group of inner blocks to a specific WordPress navigation menu item so that content appears in the matching mega-menu dropdown’s featured column.
AT A GLANCE
Namespace
create-block/advanced-header-featured-block
Type
Container
Parent
advanced-header-block only
Children
Any blocks
Attributes
menuItemId (string) · menuItemTitle (string)
Inserter
Disabled — cannot be added manually
How It Works
The block acts as a bridge between your editor content and the front-end mega-menu. Here is the three-step flow:
1
Block links to a menu item
The menuItemId attribute stores the ID of a WordPress nav menu item. menuItemTitle stores the display title so editors can see which menu item this content belongs to.
2
Parent render.php finds the match
When the Advanced Header renders on the front end, its render.php iterates over all Featured children and matches each one to its corresponding menu item by ID.
3
Inner blocks are injected into the dropdown
The saved HTML wrapper <div> of this block is discarded. Only the rendered output of its inner blocks is injected into that dropdown’s featured column.
What Goes Inside
This block accepts any child blocks. A typical featured column includes:
EXAMPLE CONTENT
New collection is here
Discover our latest arrivals, handpicked for the season.
Heading Block
Paragraph Block
Button Block
No standalone use
This block cannot be inserted from the block inserter (supports.inserter: false). It only exists as a child of the Advanced Header Block, which creates Featured instances automatically when you assign content to menu items.