Hightlighting current link in menus – with categories and pages

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  totallyrich · Member · Apr 19, 2009 at 9:03 pm

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  Hello!

  I’m trying to get this menu to work on my custom theme:

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  The menu links are hardcoded into the header.php template. As you can see I use ‘Home’ one page and four categories. Here’s the code I have tried to use:

  <?php if(is_home() && !is_paged()){ ?>
  <!-- li>
  " title="You are Home">Blog Navigation
  </li -->
  <?php } else { ?>
  • " title="Click for Home">Home

  <?php } ?>

  • <a <?php
    if (is_category('Photography') || in_category('27') && !is_single())
    {
    echo " class="current"";
    }?> href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/category/photography">Photography
  • <a <?php
    if (is_category('The Interweb') || in_category('25') && !is_single())
    {
    echo " class="current"";
    }?> href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/category/the-interweb">The Interweb
  • <a <?php
    if (is_category('Motorsport') || in_category('24') && !is_single())
    {
    echo " class="current"";
    }?> href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/category/motorsport">Motorsport
  • <a <?php
    if (is_category('Everything Else') || in_category('28') && !is_single())
    {
    echo " class="current"";
    }?> href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/category/everything-else">Everything Else
  • <a <?php
    if (is_page('Contact'))
    {
    echo " class="current"";
    }?> href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/contact">Contact

  Issue 1:
  When on the homepage the ‘Motorsport’ link is highlighted.

  Issue 2:
  When on the contact page the ‘Everything Else’ link is highlighted.

  Issue 3:
  If you click though to a single post the menu loses it’s highlighting.

  Has anyone tried something like this before? or do you have any ideas how I can make this work???

  Looking forward to hear your response…

  Cheers,
  Rich

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  sambauers · Member · Apr 19, 2009 at 9:03 pm

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