Best way to setup Home page for all posts
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New client has an older theme. It lacks a lot of pretty standard features, but for now I have to work with it. I have managed to fix most of the issues via various PHP files, but the current navigation is very awkward. The “home” page is just “latest posts” – which means all 12 or so of them. I can easily set up a Custom Link to add a menu item for the Home page – which is just the root of the site: https://mysite.com
However, this presents a small problem with styling the nav menu. The current configuration on all pages except Home, is that the menu item of the active page is specified as: [aria-current] – which means it’s simple to make any active page’s menu text display a different color, such as:
[aria-current] {
color:red
}But the Home page, being a Custom Link menu item, just shows as:
<li id=”menu-item-231″ class=”menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-231″>HomeThat is, since it is just a link as opposed to a Page, there is no way to make it reflect the fact that it is active. No way to selectively style this link that I can see.
The Block Editor on this site lacks the Blog Posts block, so even if I create a new Home page, I can’t see any way to add all of the posts (not a list, but the entire posts) to it.
Anyone have a suggestion as to how to modify this Home page problem?
TIA!
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Solved: without too much extra work, I just decided to use the home page class to style the link, avoiding the whole “active” issue:
body.home li#menu-item-231 a {
color:red !importantIt’s difficult sometimes when taking over a site that hasn’t been touched in a long time, to make a few significant changes without having to essentially rewrite the whole thing. It would be nice to be able to add a custom class or id to a Custom Link menu item in the WP menu system.
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