I’m busy with this WordPress website: https://tftinstallatie.inpointbox.nl/producten/systeemplafondarmaturen/test-02/

The link (above) shows a post. It’s a product, which I have made with custom post types. At the left you see al the product cats, created with a taxomony.

That works realy nice. On the archive page the menu shows correct the active taxomony with “current_cat”. But when you’re on a product, the current taxomony don’t get a “current_cat” class.

How can I fix this, so that the menu get also a current class when the product is showing.

This is the code to list the taxomony list.

<?php
$taxonomy     = 'productcats';
$orderby      = 'name';
$show_count   = 1;      // 1 for yes, 0 for no
$pad_counts   = 0;      // 1 for yes, 0 for no
$hierarchical = 1;      // 1 for yes, 0 for no
$title        = 'Productcategoriën:';

$args = array(
  'taxonomy'     => $taxonomy,
  'orderby'      => $orderby,
  'show_count'   => $show_count,
  'pad_counts'   => $pad_counts,
  'hierarchical' => $hierarchical,
  'title_li'     => $title
);
?>

Thanks in advance!

Derk

<?php
$cat_id = get_cat_ID('All'); //put your category here
wp_list_categories('title_li=&taxonomy=categories&current_category=' .$cat_id);
?>

And is not working but if i remove taxonomy=categories the problem is solved but i only want to list the categories in my taxonomy is there any way to fix that?

Thank’s

$top_level_cats = get_categories(‘child_of=0&parent=0’);

assuming that 0 is the ID of the top. This does not work.

End goal is to find out if the current category is the child of a top level category.

Thanks.

Here is my current code:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

		    <?php
          // check if the post belongs directly to the current category;
          // continue if not
          $current_categories = get_the_category();
          $found_category = false;
          foreach ($current_categories as $current_category) {
            if ($current_category->term_id == $cat) {
              $found_category = true;
              // counting level
              $level = 0;
              while ($current_category->parent != 0) {
                $current_category = get_category($current_category->parent);
                $level = $level + 1;
              }
              break;
            }
          }
          if (!$found_category) {
            continue;
          }
        ?>

Additionally i have two releated issues to that children content one.

1.) i use MyCategoryOrder Plugin, to sort the categories and i wuld like for the display of the content, to keep the same order/structure:

<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=order&show_count=0&title_li=&depth=3'); ?>

2.) by clicking on the parent category, my navigation menu starts displaying the children. Can i somehow mark the first children (which content should be displayed) with a “current_cat” css-class? So that the users know where he/she is?

Thank You for your support in advance,
bb

Basically in my CSS the current_cat and current_page_items are highlighted in the same way.

I noticed that when viewing a page, the correct menu item was highlighted. But when I viewed a category page both the category item and the page item were classed as current.

i.e. when viewing index.php?cat=5 both category 5 and page-id 5 were classed as current.

The solution is to edit the wp_includes/classes.php file. Look for:

function start_el($output, $page, $depth, $current_page, $args) {
	if ( $depth )
		$indent = str_repeat("t", $depth);
		extract($args);
		$css_class = 'page_item';
		$_current_page = get_page( $current_page );
		if ($page->ID == $current_page )
		$css_class .= ' current_page_item';
...

you need to replace the line
if ($page->ID == $current_page )
with
if (is_page() && $page->ID == $current_page )
and that should do it.