Comments on: Easy navigation menus in WordPress

By: zsiswick

zsiswick — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:22:22 +0000

Regarding the current_page_item class issue not working for some people, I came up with a fairly rough way of handling it in jQuery:

function getHost() {    var url = window.location.href;    var nohttp = url.split('//')[1];    var hostPort = nohttp.split('/')[0];    return url;}jQuery(document).ready(function() {	var theURL = getHost();	jQuery("div#page-nav li.page_item a").each(function(){		if ( jQuery(this).attr("href") === theURL ){			jQuery(this).parent().addClass("current_page_item");				}	});});

Essentially what this is doing is getting the current URL and comparing the string to an unordered list of links, if the href matches it assigns the current_page_item to the parent Obviously the script could be enhanced to handle slight differences in the URL, but it does work if they match exactly.

By: Hayes Carter

Hayes Carter — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:10:59 +0000

thanks alot for this amazing tutorial, just what I was looking for

By: josephine

josephine — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:28:46 +0000

thank you for this tutorial and it is really useful to us in wordpress community.

By: evden eve nakliyat ve depolama

evden eve nakliyat ve depolama — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:58:54 +0000

indeed, it is pretty flexible. the only menu call I need is wp_list_pages() and I can insert links to categories, external sites,

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links for 2009-10-01 | Digitalistic - Mashup or die trying — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:04:06 +0000

[...] Using WordPress bookmarks (links) to create a navigation menu (tags: wordpress navigation menu bookmarks wp_page_menu wp) [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:34:40 +0000

Hi Justin,

Great info! Is there a way to add this to the existing page menu, so that the bookmarked links will be added to navigation, yet IN ADDITION to existing items? Right now, my existing pages are taken off the menu…

Thanks!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:27:27 +0000

For anyone having trouble, make sure to make the changes recommended by Ryan in his comment from June 17 (http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/01/06/easy-navigation-menus-in-wordpress#comment-133507)

Justin, it would be great if you would update the original posting with those changes.

I didn’t want to use the ratings to arrange sort my links, so I used the notes field instead, changing Ryan’s line

‘$bkmrkqry = ‘orderby=rating&category=’.$cat_id;’

with

$bkmrkqry = ‘orderby=notes&category=’.$cat_id;

Add a 0 in the Notes field of the link you want first, a 20 in the Notes for the link you want last, and some other number for each link in-between. Even though I only have ~9 links, I find it faster to re-arrange them this way, as you don’t have to shuffle them around.

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Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:54:41 +0000

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By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:25:21 +0000

Thanks Kristarella, and sorry for spamming the comments Justin. OK, here's my code (hopefully):


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By: kristarella

kristarella — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:18:34 +0000

Dave, you need to escape any HTML.