[Resolved] sf menu item state – odd behaviour

[Daniel Walker]

Hi Tom, I’m seeing some odd behaviour with a menu item state on my primary navigation menu.

On the menu I have a few Pages, a couple of category archive links (for custom post types), a bbpress link and a link to my blog index (the page that shows the latest Posts, as defined in Settings > Read).

When I select any Pages, the menu hover/active/visited states all work perfectly, as shown below.

However, when I select a category archive or the bbpress index page (set as a ‘category’ in bbpress), the blog index page menu item also switches to the active state, as shown below.

Any ideas as to what could be causing that?

Thanks,
Dan

[Daniel Walker]

Sorry, I mucked up the link to that first screenshot.

[Tom]

WordPress gets confused when it comes to custom post types, and thinks you’re viewing the blog – so it highlights the blog menu item as well.

The best way I’ve found to avoid this is to add the link to the Blog or custom post type as a “Custom Link” in “Appearance > Menus” instead of adding it from the “Pages” module (or any of the other modules).

Can you give that a try and let me know if it works or not?

[Daniel Walker]

Yep, that’s fixed it. Excellent. Thanks Tom.

Dan

[Tom]

Awesome – no problem 🙂

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