Is there a way to change the child generated by WordPress itself to a custom class name?
I know the parent
You don't need to extend the Walker. This will do:
function overrideSubmenuClasses( $classes ) { $classes[] = 'myclass1'; $classes[] = 'myclass2'; return $classes; } add_action('nav_menu_submenu_css_class', 'overrideSubmenuClasses');