Underline the Current Page's Title in menu

[dominoeffect]

Hey all!

I'm building a site for a friend which uses this Wordpress theme:

http://www.felixkrusch.de/about

^ As you can see by visting the site, the title of the current page is always underlined on the main menu.

In the code the menu is displayed by this code:

<li <?php if(is_home()){echo 'class="current_page_item"';}?>><a href="<?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>" title="Home">Home</a></li>

<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1');?>

and a snippet of css in the stylesheet:

.current_page_item a {

color:#000;

text-decoration: underline;

}

I want to add links to category pages in the menu, but if I add an example like this to the menu:

<a href="blahblah.com/cat/videos">Videos</a>

There is no underline for that page.

Does anyone know a way that I can achieve the same underline effect for non-Pages I add to the menu?

There must be some way to adapt this code for other URLs?

<li <?php if(is_home()){echo 'class="current_page_item"';}?>><a href="<?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>" title="Home">Home</a></li>

If anyone can help I'd be hugely grateful, thank you in advance!

[Dormilich]

put your link in an element (li, div, span, ...) that contains the current_page_it em class.

<span class="current_page_item">
  <a href="_your_uri_">_link_text_</a>
</span>

regards

[dominoeffect]

I might be wrong but I don't think that would work.

I want the underline to appear only on the page currently being browsed by the visitor. If I added the above bit of code, would it not always apply the underline?

Thanks,

[David Laakso]

There must be some way to adapt this code for other URLs?

<li <?php if(is_home()){echo 'class="current_page_item"';}?>><a href="<?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>" title="Home">Home</a></li>

Try the PHP forum PHP forum

[dominoeffect]

Thanks for the help all,

I will move this conversation to the PHP forum, cheers.

[eWish]

Moving to PHP Forum.

--Kevin

[Dormilich]

There must be some way to adapt this code for other URLs?

<li <?php if(is_home()){echo 'class="current_page_item"';}?>>
    <a href="<?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>" title="Home">Home</a>
</li>

do you know, how the is_home() function works? then you could it adapt for categories too.

[dominoeffect]

do you know, how the is_home() function works? then you could it adapt for categories too.

Dormilich: I have no idea how the is_home() function works.

Do you have any idea?

Repeating it for categories would be perfect.

Thanks

[Dormilich]

option 1 - you have access to the server and the function is defined somewhere in a script file on the server - just scan the script files for this function

option 2 - is_home() belongs to a wordpress hosted script - no luck

option 3 - there is a wordpress documentation

option 4 - write your own is_category() function

for option 4 I'd like to see more of the script, because this function also depends on how the category menu is build. as a general idea the function would probably compare the siteurl with the category link (e.g. preg_match()).

regards

[dominoeffect]

I think option 3:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_Category_Page

I am wholly uneducated in PHP so I hope you can confirm or deny my theory, that I should be able to get the result I want using the structure below.

      <li <?php if(is_home()){echo 'class="current_page_item"';}?>>
          <a href="http://homepage.com" title="Home">Home</a>
      </li>

    <li <?php if(is_category('9')){echo 'class="current_page_item"';}?>>
          <a href="http://homepage.com/cat/apple" title="Posts Filed in Apple">Apple</a>

    <li <?php if(is_category('10')){echo 'class="current_page_item"';}?>>
          <a href="http://homepage.com/cat/windows" title="Posts Filed in Windows">Windows</a>

For the record: categories are each given a numeric value besides its name, Apple might be 9, Windows might be 10, and so on, like I've shown here.

[Dormilich]

That's exactly how I would do that. despite is_category() fires only if the page displayed is the category's top page, maybe you want to go for in_category() (marking all pages that belong to that category)

regards

[dominoeffect]

Thanks for the great advice, I truly appreciate your help!

Will repost here to let you know how I get on.

Best,