Title: Menu highlighting for single post (single.php)
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Menu highlighting for single post (single.php)

 *  Resolved [tictok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tictok/)
 * (@tictok)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-highlighting-for-single-post-singlephp/)
 * Hi, I’m setting up my site mainly using static pages, with a horizontal drop 
   menu nav bar across the top created using wp_list_pages.
 * I’ve also setup have dynamic nav highlighting (css) for the current page and 
   also little jquery controlled pointer that highlights the current page. This 
   way the user can easily see where they are at all times.
 * All is working great, except I need to find a way so that when a single post 
   is displayed the nav is highlighted for the correct category. Currently single
   posts (displayed when a ‘more’ link or excerpt is clicked on) don’t show any 
   nav highlighting.
 * I only have one category of posts, all of which are in a ‘NEWS’ catergory and
   displayed under a ‘NEWS’ parent page and nav menu highlight.
 * I guess I’m looking to find a way to fake an effect that the single.php temple(
   or any single post) is actually a child page of the ‘NEWS’ parent page.
 * Is this possible?
    Can and greater, more knowledgeable mind please point me in
   the right direction?
 * A million thanks
    Stef

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 *  Thread Starter [tictok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tictok/)
 * (@tictok)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-highlighting-for-single-post-singlephp/#post-1450932)
 * Just to let anyone interested know that I achieved this using the excellent wp-
   menu plugin.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-menu/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-menu/)
 * within its arguments it allows you to bind a category ID to a page ID, or even
   all your Blog posts to a page ID resulting in the nav highlighting working correctly
   for single category posts
 * Thanks 😉

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