• Resolved ChrisR

    (@chrisr)


    Hi,

    I’ve got a site which has tabs ontop for every level 1 page i added in the admin of WP. I fetch the pages with wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&depth=1’) and wordpress puts current_page_item as class for the active page nicely. This works as its supposed to but now i’ve come to the point where i’m adding subpages to each level 1 page and i would like the highlighting on the top to remain in place even if you are visiting a page at depth 2 or deeper.

    I know this it’s possible with hardcoded menu’s but thats no option since i’m generating the menu dynamically with wp_list_pages.

    Next to that i have a secondary navigation in place which displays the current subpages of the selected tab.

    This is what i’m basically asking for: it would be perfect if someone knows a way to apply the current_page_item class not only to the current page in the menu but to every parent page of the current page in the menu too.

    Any help?

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  • Thread Starter ChrisR

    (@chrisr)

    I’ve worked out a plugin which i’m going to clean up a little, strip the dirty code and i’ll post it here … only drawback is the immense number of queries if you got quite a big hierarchical layout in the pages. But we’ll have to live with that i’m afraid 🙂

    I have contacted Chris, and he kindly sent me the code he has used for his website (Thanks Chris!).

    I am going to try to implement this:


    <?php
    $highlightclass = "current_page_item";

    // highlight 'Blog' if not Page or Home
    if (is_home()) {
    $homehighlight = $highlightclass;
    } elseif (is_page("blog")) {
    $highlight = $highlightclass;
    } elseif (is_page()) {
    $highlight = "";
    } else {
    $highlight = $highlightclass;
    }

    if( is_page() ) {
    $post_name = page_parents();
    }
    rewind_posts();
    //echo "<pre>".print_r($post_name, true)."</pre>";
    ?>

    <div id="navigation">

      <li class="<?php echo $homehighlight; ?>">">Home
      <li class="<?php echo $highlight; ?>">/blog/">Blog
      <?php list_pages_highlighted('exclude=2,3&title_li=&depth=1&highlightall=1&sort_column=menu_order'); ?>

    </div>

    I’m also trying to figure this out – the above code doesn’t work for me.

    I get the error: Call to undefined function: page_parents()

    Did you manage to sort this out Chris or Johan?

    I’ve tried to put some alternative code together (re: http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Dynamic_Menu_Highlighting&redirect=nothough it ain’t bloody working :()

    <div id="mainNav">
    <div>
    <ul>
    <li id="one"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
    <li id="two"><a href="#">Services</a></li>
    <li id="three"><a href="#">About</a></li>
    <li id="four"><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
    </ul>
    </div>
    </div>

    <?php
    $parent_id = $page_query->ID;
    if ($parent_id = 3) { $current = 'one'; }
    elseif ($parent_id = 5) { $current = 'two'; }
    elseif ($parent_id = 2) { $current = 'three'; }
    elseif ($parent_id = 4) { $current = 'four'; }
    ?>

    Cany anyone help?

    Cheers

    Can anyone shed any light on this or am I in the wilderness?

    I have done it this way with David Chait’s function:

    <?php

    function is_page_or_subpage($id)
    { /* this can be used instead of is_page FOR PAGE ID TESTS ONLY */
    global $wp_query;

    if (! $wp_query->is_page) {
    return false;
    }

    if (empty($id)) {
    return true;
    }

    $page_obj = $wp_query->get_queried_object();
    if ($id == $page_obj->ID) {
    return true;
    }

    $pages = get_pages();
    foreach ($pages as $page) {
    if ($page->ID == $page_obj->ID /* found the page we're on */
    && $page->post_parent == $id) /* parent matched the passed ID! */
    return true;
    }

    return false;
    }

    ?>

    <div id="mainNav">
    <div>
    <ul>
    <?php if(is_page_or_subpage(3)): ?>

    <li class="page_item"><a href="#" title="Home"><span>Home</span></a></li>
    <li class="page_item current_page_item"><a href="#" title="Services"><span>Services</span></a></li>

    <?php else : ?>

    <li class="page_item current_page_item"><a href="#" title="Home"><span>Home</span></a></li>
    <li class="page_item"><a href="#" title="Services"><span>Services</span></a></li>

    <?php endif; ?>

    </ul>
    </div>
    </div>

    johanvanderwijk: Trying to implement the same thing you have, however i’m getting an error


    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: page_parents() in...

    Can you let us all know how you’ve implemented this functionality?

    Johan kindly replied referncing the following thread:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/55775?replies=5

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