When viewing post pages, set the post archive page in the menu to current or current-menu-parent / current-menu-ancestor

[StrangeTech]

Description:

When visiting any page, if that page is in the menu it is set to the current page.

Usually with post types, a desirable behaviour to ensure users know where they are within the site is the following:

Viewing any post page will result in the post type archive page menu item being set to current (as if the post page was a child of the archive page menu item).

In any cases where this didn’t happen automatically, using the standard WordPress menu we could use filters to ensure the classes were set appropriately.

With the Cwicly menu, this behaviour doesn’t happen and as far as we can tell, there is no way to filter the classes to achieve this.

Related feature request:

Enable Cwicly menu block to allow filtering of output

When attempting to add descriptions to menu items (similar to the strategy outlined here: Displaying WordPress Menu Item Descriptions – Theme Foundation), we noticed that nothing changes in the Cwicly menu block. A menu item filter being added will allow Cwicly users to customise the menu adding greater flexibility. Thank you.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions:

1. Create a blog page (post archive)
2. Add it a menu
3. Add the menu to a template (presumably a header)
4. Create a post
5. View the post on the website
6. Notice the blog page menu item is not highlighted (set to current-menu-parent current-menu-ancestor or similar)

[emanuelechiari]

Any solutions about this?
Thanks

[StrangeTech]

I am looking at workarounds now - currently, until Cwicly allows filtering or @Louis comes up with a clever alternative, the only certain workaround is to use the WordPress menu instead, if this is important for your website.

[emanuelechiari]

Thanks…. Hooping that someone could find a fast solution for this

[StrangeTech]

The best way to solve it for the Cwicly menu is to vote for (and optionally comment on) this feature request and maybe also this one:

Enable Cwicly menu block to allow filtering of output

When attempting to add descriptions to menu items (similar to the strategy outlined here: Displaying WordPress Menu Item Descriptions – Theme Foundation), we noticed that nothing changes in the Cwicly menu block. A menu item filter being added will allow Cwicly users to customise the menu adding greater flexibility. Thank you.

That way @Louis and the Cwicly team will know it is important to you as well and they can factor this in when prioritising updates.

[StrangeTech]

Just confirming - as soon as the following feature request is added, we have code that will work for most use cases on most standard sites:

Allow filtering of css classes for Nav items

As per this discussion: Following on from this feature request: And this previous thread: I have created this feature request for easier tracking of this specifically. We really need to be able to set the current class on custom post type parent archives when viewing a post of that type. This will only be possible when Cwicly allows filtering of the classes.

[StrangeTech]

As of the 1.3.3.1 this is now fully achievable. We have some fairly generic, re-usable code that enables this. We will share it here soon after we have tested it on a couple of sites.

[StrangeTech]

As a follow up, the code to do this is here:

Highlight hierarchical ancestor menu items for pages and posts (e.g. custom taxonomy and terms)

I have tested and confirmed the following works with a Nav block containing a Menu block and a standalone Menu block. The code does two things: Makes nav/menu items highlight when they are logically hierarchical ancestors based on the URL e.g. https://site.com/type will be highlighted if what is being currently viewed is a page or post with the url https://site.com/type/some-page-or-post Makes nav/menu items highlight when they are hierarchically related by custom taxonomy e.g. when a viewi…

Hopefully this helps you if you need this.