Blog menu item highlighting on archive Layout pages

cdyproductions · January 13, 2022, 9:32am

Hi,

Whenever I am on an Archive Layout page I get the blog menu item displaying as active.

Do you know why this is and what the solution could be? It’s happened in a few of my sites where I’ve used a Layout for an archive page.

Here is the page I’m referring to where this occurs. It’s a Layout page for a Seminars CPT.
https://immagine.davidbarrydesigns.com.au/seminars/

It is also highlighting the Getting Started tab because one of the dropdowns from that tab is Online Seminars, which is the same as the page I am on.

Do you know how to stop this happening too?

Let me know if that makes sense

Cheers,
David

tristup · January 13, 2022, 2:03pm

Hi David,

Normally, when you visit a single post type, the Posts Page (blog) gets highlighted or the current menu item. To get your issue resolved, please check out this article:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/gerbenvandijk/5253921

Mark parent navigation active when on custom post type single page

<?php

   function add_current_nav_class($classes, $item) {

      // Getting the current post details
      global $post;

      // Get post ID, if nothing found set to NULL
      $id = ( isset( $post->ID ) ? get_the_ID() : NULL );

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Thanks

cdyproductions · January 16, 2022, 2:08am

Hi, I’ve looked at this article and have tried several variations of this code in my active child theme’s functions.php, but it’s not making any difference.

For reference you can see on this single CPT page highlighting the Blog page: https://immagine.davidbarrydesigns.com.au/seminars/malaysia/

Any other ideas?

Cheers,
David

ruenel · January 16, 2022, 3:27am

Hello David,

Are you using the Full Snippet on the last response? We would love to check your site and check your page, custom post type structure and the menus. You can create a secure note in your next reply with the following info:
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cdyproductions · January 16, 2022, 8:39am

Thanks, I’ll attach a secure note with the details to this reply. Feel free to have a snoop around

The first PHP snippet in the link you sent has been added to the functions.php file.

Archive Layout: https://immagine.davidbarrydesigns.com.au/seminars/

Single Layout: https://immagine.davidbarrydesigns.com.au/seminars/malaysia/

Cheers,
David

christian · January 16, 2022, 2:41pm

Hey David,

We’re sorry for the confusion. We cannot check the 3rd party code or snippet as it’s outside the scope of our theme support. The snippet suggested here is only a guide and does not necessarily mean that it’s the solution moreover that what it does is highlight the CPT parent. I believe that is not what you want because you want to get rid of the highlight from the Blog, Get Started and unrelated submenus of the Get Started.

Just a bit of explanation why those menus highlight first so that what I’m going to suggest might make sense, those menus highlight because they have the class x-always-active. That class is added to each of the highlighted menus by the builder because they meet certain criteria.

The Blog menu highlighting is taken from the default WordPress behavior
The Get Started menu is a parent menu item

The solution is to disable the Ancestors in the Navigation Inline > Active Links. You can leave Current on so that the Seminars menu item will still highlight when you are on the Seminars page.

Hope that helps.

cdyproductions · January 17, 2022, 6:54am

Thank you so much @christian for taking the time to explain and for actually understanding my query.
This was just the solution I was looking for and it worked perfectly!

Thanks again,
David

tristup · January 17, 2022, 8:28am

Hi David,

Glad that we are able to help you.

Thanks

system · January 27, 2022, 8:28am

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