Comments on: Dynamic category menu highlighting for single posts

By: Ade

Ade — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:35:17 +0000

Hi,

Frankly, no idea, I’ve never used that plugin.

Have you tried asking the plugin author?

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:06:53 +0000

Hi.

I´m using the plugin here mentioned ‘http://kahi.cz/wordpress/highlight-used-categories-plugin/’.

My main categories are disposed by ‘male’, ‘female’, and ‘children’.
The subcategories are the same for each of the 3 main categories.

So, the problem I found with the plugin, is that it adds ‘used-cat’ on every ‘acessories’ subcategory it finds.
Regardless of the main category in use.

It adds ‘used-cat’ on ‘acessories’ of ‘female’ main category, and it adds ‘used-cat’ on ‘acessories’ of ‘children’ main category.

I would like the code of the plugin to add ‘used-cat’, only to the sub-category of the main category in use, in the current post.

You can check it out here.

The website is in portuguese so ‘male’ means “Masculino”, “female” means “Feminino”, and “Acessories” means “Acessórios”.

Any idea what modification in the plugin code should I make?

By: Hannes

Hannes — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:41:15 +0000

Did a similar stuff with the WP Walker class:
https://github.com/hkirsman/category_aware_walker_nav_menu

By: Don

Don — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:52:28 +0000

Hi there,

I am wondering if there is a way to also add a class for current-cat-parent when inside a child post?

Thanks,

By: Arvid Eriksson

Arvid Eriksson — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:35:32 +0000

Amazing. It works very well with my custom taxonomies! The name of my taxonomy is directors_name so this is what I put in my functions.php
function sgr_show_current_cat_on_single($output) { global $post; if( is_single() ) { $taxonomy = 'directors_name'; $categories = wp_get_object_terms( $post->ID, $taxonomy );


		foreach( $categories as $catid ) {

			$cat = get_category($catid);

			// Find cat-item-ID in the string

			if(preg_match('#cat-item-' . $cat->cat_ID . '#', $output)) {

				$output = str_replace('cat-item-'.$cat->cat_ID, 'cat-item-'.$cat->cat_ID . ' current-cat', $output);

			}

		}

	}

	return $output;

}

add_filter('wp_list_categories', 'sgr_show_current_cat_on_single');

And this is what I put in my single.php

Thank you for your help!
/ A

By: Hansen

Hansen — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:15:12 +0000

Thank you very much. It works ad hoc.

By: Ade

Ade — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:26:26 +0000

Daniel,

You are quite right – the new Custom Menu functionality makes all of this so much easier. Generally, I always recommend clients to use this rather than the “traditional” method of wp_list_categories etc.

Glad you found the article useful.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:16:02 +0000

Fantastic post, and great comments too – reading it pointed me in the direction of using wp_nav_menu instead of wp_list_pages or wp_list_categories

It makes everything so easy – adding classes for the first and last list item, setting up the order of list items and also styling the parent menu item if the current page is a sub page, as discussed above

If you haven’t already, do check out Justin Tadlock’s excellent walk-through of wp_nav_menu here –

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/06/01/goodbye-headaches-hello-menus

By: Angelo

Angelo — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:26:41 +0000

Yes….can you see the solution?…If there is I not understand it. Can you explain me, please?

I need the php code to assign current class to main categories.

Thanks

By: Ade

Ade — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:00:26 +0000

Angelo,

I think this is discussed elsewhere in the comments.