Show Sub-navigation on custom ‘single.php’ template?

Hi There,

I’m fairly new to WordPress, but am so far very impressed with it’s power and ease of use. I’m building a site for a client that uses a variety of custom templates/functionality.

Please see my example here: http://www.summermatters.org/wordpress/contact-us/staff

That page simply pulls in all posts with the category of ‘staff’. I then have a custom single.php page that uses a few if/else statements which basically says if page category = ‘staff’ serve up template x.

Everything is working great. My question has to do with the main and sub navigation. Notice when you leave the staff page and get sent to the custom single page, the “contact us” in the main-nav is no longer highlighted, and the sub-nav is empty.

In the main-nav, I’m wondering if there is anything I can pass to the navigation code that tells it which item to add the class of ‘active’ to. (so that I can highlight ‘contact us’ on the custom single.php template)

In the sub-nav, I am wondering if there is anything I can pass to the navigation code that tells it A: which sub-nav to pull in, and B: which item to add the class of ‘active’ to.

My goal is to maintain the main and sub navs so that when the user visits the custom single.php template, nothing changes besides for the content, and it looks like they never left that section.

I really appreciate any help on this one.

Code I’m using to pull in the sub-nav:

<ul id="nav_sub">
<?php
if($post->post_parent)
$children = wp_list_pages("sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li=&child_of=".$post->post_parent."&echo=0"); else
$children = wp_list_pages("sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li=&child_of=".$post->ID."&echo=0");
if ($children) { ?>
<?php echo $children; ?>
<?php } ?>         </ul>

Code I’m using to pull in the main-nav:

div id="nav_main">
        <div class="mid">
        <ul class="sf-menu">
        <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=2'); ?>
        </ul>
        </div><!-- end mid -->