Is “News” a Category?
If so, give this a try. I use it to add a “current-cat” class to menu items:
http://wordpress.pastebin.com/gyqS6TfJ
Thank you for reply!
No “News” is not a Category, it is title for Blog,
like on the top-menu of this page (next to Forums).
By the way, here it is working properly as it should.
Can you provide a link to your site, so I can visualize what you’re describing?
I was trying to do this too and never figured it out
Try styling the following CSS classes (assuming your Theme adds the body_class() template tag to the BODY tag, and assuming that your navigation menu UL tag has an ID of #nav):
body.blog #nav li.current_page_item {
/* CSS definitions for current page list item go here */
}
body.blog #nav li.current_page_item a {
/* CSS definitions for current page list item link go here */
}
Unfortunately, my site is offline. I can’t provide a link.
To visualize what I’m describing, look a this page.
You can go to Blog (wordpress.org/news) and “Blog” menu item
will be highlighted in the top menu.
You can open any blog entry and “Blog” menu item will still be highlighted.
That is not working by default in any wordpress blog.
I am looking at Twentyten theme, and still it’s not working.
I was trying to apply .current_page_item class earlier, but no result.
It is working for pages, not for blog entries.
I’m curious how they did it here, with .current class for menu links.
Have you tried applying styles to the “current_page_parent” and “current_page_ancestor” classes?
Yes, I did. These classes are not very helpful in this case.
By the way, I’ve just looked at your site.
You’ve done it by applying id=”navhome” to your Blog menu item.
Can you explain in detail, how you make it work, after pressing blog entry?
Mine is a hard-coded “home” link, that I put inside the menu UL, before calling wp_list_pages().
The trick, in this case, is adding an ID to the BODY tag in the appropriate template file (e.g. index.php, or home.php), which can be used to target the specific menu list item.
