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1. demonboy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Good afternoon,

   Currently I am using this code for my menu:

   <li<?php if ( is_home() ) { echo ' class="current_page_item"'; } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>"><span>Home</span></a></li>
   	<li<?php if ( is_page('about') || is_page('94') || is_page('83') || is_page('79') || is_page('73') || is_page('3339') || is_page('77') || is_page('20228') || is_page('20232') || is_page('75') || is_page('contact')) { echo ' class="current_page_item"'; } ?>><a href="http://www.followtheboat.com/about">About</a></li>
       <li<?php if ( is_page('places-2')) { echo ' class="current_page_item"'; } ?>><a href="http://www.followtheboat.com/places-2">Places</a></li>
   	<li<?php if ( is_page('photography') || in_category('447')) { echo ' class="current_page_item"'; } ?>><a href="http://www.followtheboat.com/photography">Photography</a></li>
   	<li<?php if ( is_page('ftb-podcasts') || in_category('601')) { echo ' class="current_page_item"'; } ?>><a href="http://www.followtheboat.com/ftb-podcasts">Podcasts</a></li>

   I realise that the About item could probably be an array but that's not my issue. My problem is this:

   When I create a new blog entry in the category 'podcast', the homepage highlights both the menu item 'Home' and menu item 'Podcast'. When on the homepage I don't want it to highlight 'Podcast'. Could anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Shouldn't the is_home() part prevent any other menu item from being highlighted or do I have to actually declare what is_home is?

   Thanks in advance.

2. jevets
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Try it with is_front_page() instead of is_home()

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_front_page

3. demonboy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi. Tried that to no avail.

4. jevets
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   The problem is that your post is in_category('601'). So your condition of is_page('ftb-podcasts') || in_category('601') returns true on the home page.

   You could try something like this:
   if (is_page('ftb-podcasts') || (is_single() && in_category(601)))

5. demonboy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi jevets,

   That appears to have done the trick! Thanks very much for your time, I appreciate it.

   Cheers.

6. demonboy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   EEEEK! Scrap that last comment! That very definitely did not work! I must have had my website cached when I tried your solution, jevets. All that happened was that it wrote out the code for the page instead of actually displaying it.

   Any other ideas?

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