Title: Programmatically selecting / highlighting menu item
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Programmatically selecting / highlighting menu item

 *  [Michael Claesson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipm/)
 * (@ipm)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/programmatically-selecting-highlighting-menu-item/)
 * Hi!
 * I’ve created a menu in WordPress that’s basically built up out of three levels.
   On the first page you can only see one level, when you select on of the items
   it highlights that item and shows the second level and so on. This works great
   for the pages that the menu items link to. But I also want to be able to highlight
   certain menu items when not on their target locations. This is because I have
   custom post types that belong to a certain menu item, or you could say they are
   children to a certain menu item. But I don’t want to add every single one of 
   them to the menu and hide that menu to highlight the parent. What I want is to,
   with code, when displaying a certain post type, activate a certain menu item 
   and thus making it seem like you’re on a certain page when you’re in fact on 
   a child of that page. Hope you get what I mean. I can’t for my life figure out
   a way of doing this though. Wish I could just access the menu object and say 
   that “Hey, now you’re active whether you like it or not!”.
 * The menu can be seen here: [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33595106/menu.png](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33595106/menu.png)
 * Any ideas?
 * Thanks in advance!
 * Kind regards,
    Michael

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