You have to be a bit more specific. Which template? A good theme has usually 5-8-10 of them 🙂
You mean to have the category name in bold? Where? In the sidebar menu or …?
“When a user sees the post…” – you mean on a single post view? archive view? category listing view?
Sorry for the inconvenience… here are the missing details.
I designed a custom Theme based on Kubrick’s and added a Link Bar at the top of the page (as seen in Wuhan’s Theme). This link bar contains links to my categories.
When a User is in Category Listing view, the current category in the bar should be formatted in bold.
I added the code for the Link Bar to header.php.
You may want to take a look at this page in the Codex:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Dynamic_Menu_Highlighting
Maybe you’re looking for something like this:
<?php if ( is_category('8') ) { echo " class=\"active\""; } ?>
You could insert this statement into a <li> tag or <a> tag to create an “active” stylesheet that would highlight the correct menu item.
Hmm. I found this thread when searching for what I’m trying to do… it’s similar, but not quite. 😉
I have a sidebar with lists of categories, subcategories. What I’d like to do is have the category of a post be highlighted in the sidebar when looking at a post in “single-post view”. (Hope I’m being clear.)
To list the categories in the sidebar I am using:
<?php wp_list_cats('hide_empty=0&exclude=1'); ?>
But for the life of me I can’t figure out what I’d need to do to achieve the above-mentioned functionality. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 🙂
I have the same problem: if I use “is_category(‘1’)” in the header.php in “single-post view”, it says: no category.
The question is: how can i highlight the category of a single-post-view.
I recently fixed this by editing the list_cats function which is called by the wp_list_cats function. Check my post here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/47919
