I’m still learning wordpress but I think I have this menu highlighting sorted.

(I’m also going to assume that you have a css menu and you only require the php to make the menu work.)

First of all I had my menu fully coded and had my “current” css id affecting the li tag only I had some trouble with this at the beginning.

Now I opened up the wordpress codex , had a little read at that and realized I had to go with step 2.

The Wordpress Menu Code.

<li<?php if (is_home()){ echo ” id=\”current\”";}?>><a href=”#”>Page One</a></li>

Now the above line of code checks to see of the page your on is the home page, if so then it simply writes id=”current”.

Neat eh?

The Variables for the Wordpress Menu Code.

Also there are other variables for “is_home” such as: -

• is_front_page – Highlights what ever page you set as your front page in the “settings>reading” section.
• is_home – Highlights the blog’s “home page” (I suggest using this on the menu item that links to all your websites post or what ever is your static front page.)
• is_page – Highlights any buttons using a page template.

There is also an option for “is_page” to apply the “current” id depending on the ‘page slug’ this is done by the following code: -

<li<?php if ( is_page(’about’) ) { echo ‘ id=”current”‘; } ?>><a href=”http://www.sindustries.co.uk/about/” title=”Find out more info about Sindustries.”>About</a></li>

The code above checks to see if the slug is “about” and if so it prints id=”current”.

A few points to remember and how to avoid errors.

I must make you aware however if your custom front page is using “home.php” it will highlight that page and your blog page.

To get round this you must have a custom static page and define your posts page in the “settings>reading” section.

Menu highlights are a great usability feature to basically give the user information on what page they are actually viewing so there should be nothing stopping you implementing this feature to your own website/wordpress blog.

I hope this helps you out when you’re creating your own menu!

Bryan