Title: Highlight Current page navigation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Highlight Current page navigation

 *  [tr123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tr123/)
 * (@tr123)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlight-current-page-navigation/)
 * HI
 * Initially I wanted to change the navigation for my pages so that the word in 
   the navigation says something different to the page title ie. the navigation 
   would say Home but the pages when you opened it would say welcome to XXXX. I 
   couldn’d find a solution for this so am trying to follow codex instructions for
   hand coding the navigation (I don’t know PHP).
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Dynamic_Menu_Highlighting](http://codex.wordpress.org/Dynamic_Menu_Highlighting)
 * But because I have specified a page to be the landing page/home page instead 
   of the blog as the landing page I can’t get it to work. What I would like is 
   for the current active page navigation to have blue behind it whereas the rest
   of the nav bar is red –
 * this is what I have got at the moment, which works for the links but I don’t 
   know how I would specify the new specified home page. At the moment it is all
   set up locally on my machine so the home page is at [http://localhost:8888/wordpress/](http://localhost:8888/wordpress/)
   can anybody help me please?
 * Thanks
 * <div id=”menu”>
    -  <!– To show “current” on the Fitness Classes Page –>
    -  <li<?php
       if (is_page(‘classes’)) { echo ” id=\”current\””; }?>> /classes/”
      >classes
    - <!– To show “current” on the blog page–>
    - <li<?php
       if (is_home()) { echo ” id=\”current\””; }?>> /blog-2/”>blog
 * </div
 * #menu #current
    { background-color: #00afda; padding: 6px 0 6px 0; }

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