Is there a way to change the child generated by WordPress itself to a custom class name?
I know the parent
There is no option for this, but you can extend the 'walker' object that WordPress uses to create the menu HTML. Only one method needs to be overridden:
class My_Walker_Nav_Menu extends Walker_Nav_Menu {
function start_lvl(&$output, $depth) {
$indent = str_repeat("\t", $depth);
$output .= "\n$indent
Then you just pass an instance of your walker as an argument to wp_nav_menu
like so:
'walker' => new My_Walker_Nav_Menu()