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Below is snippet code to display second level menu in wordpress.
Put below php code into your theme/functions.php file

add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_objects', 'my_wp_nav_menu_objects_sub_menu', 10, 2 );

// filter_hook function to react on sub_menu flag
function my_wp_nav_menu_objects_sub_menu( $sorted_menu_items, $args ) {
if ( isset( $args->sub_menu ) ) {
$root_id = 0;
// find the current menu item
foreach ( $sorted_menu_items as $menu_item ) {
if ( $menu_item->current ) {
// set the root id based on whether the current menu item has a parent or not
$root_id = ( $menu_item->menu_item_parent ) ? $menu_item->menu_item_parent : $menu_item->ID;
break;
}
}
// find the top level parent
if ( ! isset( $args->direct_parent ) ) {
$prev_root_id = $root_id;
while ( $prev_root_id != 0 ) {
foreach ( $sorted_menu_items as $menu_item ) {
if ( $menu_item->ID == $prev_root_id ) {
$prev_root_id = $menu_item->menu_item_parent;
// don't set the root_id to 0 if we've reached the top of the menu
if ( $prev_root_id != 0 ) $root_id = $menu_item->menu_item_parent;
break;
}
}
}
}

$menu_item_parents = array();
foreach ( $sorted_menu_items as $key => $item ) {
// init menu_item_parents
if ( $item->ID == $root_id ) $menu_item_parents[] = $item->ID;

if ( in_array( $item->menu_item_parent, $menu_item_parents ) ) {
// part of sub-tree: keep!
$menu_item_parents[] = $item->ID;
} else if ( ! ( isset( $args->show_parent ) && in_array( $item->ID, $menu_item_parents ) ) ) {
// not part of sub-tree: away with it!
unset( $sorted_menu_items[$key] );
}
}
return $sorted_menu_items;
} else {
return $sorted_menu_items;
}
}

Then you can display it in your theme using wp_nav_menu (just like you normally would), but also passing in a sub_menu flag to activate the custom sub_menu function:

 'primary', /// Your primary theme location name as per theme code
'sub_menu' => true
) ); ?>

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