Comments on: How To Display Dynamic Menu Pages In WordPress

By: Rahul

Rahul — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:01:24 +0000

How can I check current page is home page or other.

I try this syntax

if ( is_home() ) { echo ‘ class=”current_page_item”‘; }

But not working I use wordpress 3.3

Any idea…???

By: Lucian Florian

Lucian Florian — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:47:47 +0000

@Dan and @Jack:
you can both accomplish that using jQuery. Google “add class” or “add html with jQuery”.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:17:49 +0000

Nice! You seem to know how to manage the function wp_list_pages pretty well. So I’m asking you one question. Is it
possible to customize the href in the link so it will add an ‘#’ at the beginning of the href ? I’m using a theme
that used Anchors to scroll between pages.

Thanks

By: dan

dan — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:26:36 +0000

is it possible to get the to generate a class? if the list could generate the class equal to the page name i think that could be pretty powerful

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:25:40 +0000

Can we do the same for categories? I would like to have the same on categories.

By: tosho

tosho — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:41:04 +0000

@Norbert The custom post type pages are not considered “pages” by the is_page() check, which is used in the wp_list_pages() to figure out current-… classes.

Workaround for now is to set

$wp_query->is_posts_page=true;

$wp_query->is_page=true;

before calling wp_list_pages().

If your code requires it, set whatever you changed back to false after getting your list.

By: Lucian Florian

Lucian Florian — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:34:02 +0000

I don’t believe this is included in the core yet but there is a workaround.
Assuming you use the custom navigation code to call the menu (the code uses the escaped php characters and need to be adjusted):

< ?php wp_nav_menu( array('menu' => ‘Main Menu’ )); ?>
you can replace it with:

< ?php
$nav_menu = wp_nav_menu( array('menu' => ‘Main Menu’, ‘echo’ => false));
// get post type
$post_type = get_post_type( $post );
if (preg_match(‘/custom-post-type-name-class/’, $nav_menu) && $post_type == ‘custom-post-type-name’) {
$nav_menu = preg_replace(‘/class=\”custom-post-type-name-class/’, ‘/class=”current_page_item /’, $nav_menu);
}
echo $nav_menu;
?>

By: Norbert

Norbert — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:19:39 +0000

Hi, any idea why the ‘wp_list_page(post_type=xyz)’ does not produce any ‘current’ classes??
I mean how can i css-style a current_page_item in a list of pages that are of a custom-post-type?
Thanks in advance

By: Lucian

Lucian — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:16:02 +0000

You need to be inside a child page to see the parent ancestor class. You need to setup a child page in WordPress back-end, by assigning a parent page to it.
I have just tested it and it works. Not sure what you are doing wrong.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:24:25 +0000

Thanks Lucian, then I check the code I just see the default class class=”page_item page-item-(the number)” but nothing else. Also I see the span tags on parent and child.

Do you have any idea what may be wrong?

Thanks again,
Paul