Title: Menu parent items
Last modified: March 31, 2017

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# Menu parent items

 *  [hsantens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hsantens/)
 * (@hsantens)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-parent-items/)
 * Hi
 * I’m create a site with a menu like the following structure
    - page 1
 *  - page 1.1
    - page 1.2
    - page 1.3
    - page 4
 *  - page 2
 *  - page 2.1
    - page 2.2
    - page 2.3
    - page 4
 *  - page 3
 *  - page 3.1
    - page 3.2
    - page 3.3
    - page 4
 * Please notice “page 4” is added in all 3 branches of the menu.
    Now when I go
   to “page 4” in whatever way, the menu shows all 3 branches active (as it’s parent).
   Technically speaking the page indeed has 3 parents, but is there any way to only
   show the direct parent(s) path as active?
 * Thank you for any suggestions
 * best regards
    Hans Santens
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      Reason: indeting mnu structure

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 *  [mdshak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdshak/)
 * (@mdshak)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-parent-items/#post-8977653)
 * Hi,
    Please share the website url to me. I will give to any solution. Thanks 
   Mohammad
 *  Thread Starter [hsantens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hsantens/)
 * (@hsantens)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-parent-items/#post-8977693)
 * Hi,
 * Thank you for your response
 * This is the url: [http://hendrickx-books.dreamhosters.com/](http://hendrickx-books.dreamhosters.com/)(
   site is in Dutch)
 * You can see the issue on the “rechten” page.
    If you navigate to “2015 – Heden”-
   > “2017 – Elvis Compleet” -> “Rechten”, you will see 3 other sites are marked
   as parent. Also the “sub-navigation” in the right sidebar doesn’t know were we
   are anymore. It looks like ik shows the navigation of the first occurrence of
   the “rechten” page.
 * regards
    Hans
 *  [mdshak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdshak/)
 * (@mdshak)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-parent-items/#post-8977808)
 * Hi,
    Please paste the following code to functions.php of child theme.
 *     ```
       add_filter('nav_menu_css_class', 'remove_active_nav_menu_css_class');
       function remove_active_nav_menu_css_class($classes) {
           if(!empty($classes)) {  
               unset($classes);
               $classes = array('active');
           }
           return $classes;
       }
       ```
   
 * Thanks
    Mohammad
 *  Thread Starter [hsantens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hsantens/)
 * (@hsantens)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-parent-items/#post-8978108)
 * Thanks
    This seems to remove all active attributes. However I would like to keep
   the “real” active path.
 *  [mdshak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdshak/)
 * (@mdshak)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-parent-items/#post-8978795)
 * Hi,
    Now paste this code at functions.php of child theme.
 *     ```
       function wpdocs_add_menu_parent_class( $items ) {
           $parents = array();
   
           // Collect menu items with parents.
           foreach ( $items as $item ) {
               if ( $item->menu_item_parent && $item->menu_item_parent > 0 ) {
                   $parents[] = $item->menu_item_parent;
               }
           }
   
           // Add class.
           foreach ( $items as $item ) {
               if ( in_array( $item->ID, $parents ) ) {
                   $item->classes[] = 'menu-parent-item';
               }
           }
           return $items;
       }
       add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_objects', 'wpdocs_add_menu_parent_class' );
       ```
   
 * Thanks
    Mohammad

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