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1. totallyrich
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hello!

   I'm trying to get this menu to work on my custom theme:

   http://www.totallyrich.com

   The menu links are hardcoded into the header.php template. As you can see I use 'Home' one page and four categories. Here's the code I have tried to use:
   

   <ul>
   				  <?php if(is_home() &amp;&amp; !is_paged()){ ?>
   				   <!-- li>
   				    <a class="current"href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>" title="You are Home">Blog Navigation</a>
   				   </li -->
   				 <?php } else { ?>
   				  <li>
   				   <a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>" title="Click for Home">Home</a>
   				  </li>
   				 <?php } ?>
   
   					<li>
   				            <a <?php
   							if (is_category('Photography') || in_category('27') &amp;&amp; !is_single())
   			                {
   			                echo " class=\"current\"";
   			                }?> href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/category/photography">Photography</a>
   				        </li>
   
   					<li>
   				            <a <?php
   							if (is_category('The Interweb') || in_category('25') &amp;&amp; !is_single())
   			                {
   			                echo " class=\"current\"";
   			                }?> href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/category/the-interweb">The Interweb</a>
   				        </li>
   
   					 <li>
   				            <a <?php
   							if (is_category('Motorsport') || in_category('24') &amp;&amp; !is_single())
   			                {
   			                echo " class=\"current\"";
   			                }?> href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/category/motorsport">Motorsport</a>
   				        </li>
   
   			        <li>
   			                <a <?php
   					        if (is_category('Everything Else') || in_category('28') &amp;&amp; !is_single())
   			                {
   			                echo " class=\"current\"";
   			                }?> href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/category/everything-else">Everything Else</a>
   			        </li>
   
   			        <li>
   			                <a <?php
   					        if (is_page('Contact'))
   			                {
   			                echo " class=\"current\"";
   			                }?> href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/contact">Contact</a>
   			        </li>
   			</ul>

   Issue 1:
   When on the homepage the 'Motorsport' link is highlighted.

   Issue 2:
   When on the contact page the 'Everything Else' link is highlighted.

   Issue 3:
   If you click though to a single post the menu loses it's highlighting.

   Has anyone tried something like this before? or do you have any ideas how I can make this work???

   Looking forward to hear your response...

   Cheers,
   Rich

2. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   hi

   confusing as it is, to indicate the homepage use is_front_page() - is_home() refers to the posts page

   most of your IF statements include "and not is_single()" - that explains why the menu is not higlighted when on a single page.

   I can't see offhand why Everything Else is lit up, but it will prove to be something similar - some logic you are not looking at it causing its IF statement to evaluate as true. You have 3 conditions in that statement - take them out one at a time and find the one that is evaluating to true

   BTW, its a good idea for maintaining sanity when mixing OR's and AND's in IF statements to put all the OR's together in one pair of parentheses, followed by the AND's - helps keep straight what is going on - if one OR evaluates to true, the whole parentheses is true, and gets AND'ed with the ANDs

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