Assist-preview and actual Menu does not match

That is … disturbing.

I can see that the page being displayed is “NC-100 Family” : may I ask, of the classes assigned (in the CMW sidebar widget) to the “Products” item and the “NC-100 Family” item, which item has a class of “current-menu-item” and/or “current_page_item” (or any other class that indicates “current”)?

I appreciate that CMW isn’t currently doing what you need it to, but by any chance do you have a web-accessible page that shows this problem, so that I can take a look?

As some background : the “assist” is an emulator, ie. it does not know or care what the actual menu items represent within WordPress, they are merely “items”. Setting a “current menu item” in the assist makes it act as CMW would (should!) *if* CMW determined that that same item was the first-found item marked by WordPress as “current”. In your case, what I suspect might be happening is that “Products” has been marked – by WordPress – as “current”, so CMW is treating it as such even though the page on display is “NC-100 Family”. (It’s only a suspicion because I can’t see the widget’s shortcode equivalent in your image, so I’m guessing a little bit).

Ideally, I would like to see a CMW instance showing the entire menu (ie. set to Show All) so that I can see what each item’s classes are depending on the current page being shown (if it is possible, and not too much trouble … maybe by giving the widget a class that sets the entire widget to display:none;?).

I’m sorry this is giving you problems, and I appreciate any assistance you can give me in determining the cause.

Hey, I’ll do my best to provide as much information as possible.

I checked out the HTML, and it does seem like the “Products” item has been set as current-menu-item, for some reason, but so has “NC-100 Family”
Here is a screenshot of the menu options for the menu that is acting up.
Menu pic

I changed the menu to “Show all”, so you can check out everything here, I don’t mind sharing the actual site, as there is no critical info on it:
https://hhayc.dk/products/nc-100-family/

I appreciate the help, let me know if you need some more info.

That’s great, many thanks.

As you’ve found – and as I suspected – your menu has multiple items marked as “current”. Because CMW can only work with *one* current menu item, it takes the first one found, which in your case is on “Products”.

I am looking at a slightly different method of determining which current item to use – if more than one is present. It will still be on a roughly first-found basis, but within prioritised groups depending on what other “current-related” switches are set by WordPress : just current (highest) -> current and parent -> current and parent and ancestor – > current and ancestor (lowest). So, if CMW can find one or more items just marked as current (not current-parent or current-ancestor) then it will use the first of those found; otherwise, it will look for those marked current and current-parent (not current-ancestor), and use the first of those; etc, etc. Give me a day to check it out, and I’ll release it…

Meanwhile, thanks for your patience.

Thanks a lot, let me know if there’s anything else I can help with.

I have been messing around with this a bit, and it seems it only happens in menus with custom posts and custom post type archives as menu items.

I have released CMW v2.0.6 which – with any luck – might hopefully solve your problem. I can’t be absolutely certain because it is still dependent on the flags (not classes!) set by WordPress or other plugins that modify menus. Give it a try and let me know?

PS : If your custom product posts are provided by a plugin, it might be worth letting the plugin author know about this problem, because the validity of having a parent and child item both marked as “current” (when the items are distinct) might be considered … umm … debatable?

Awesome, it works! I really appreciate the effort to fix this so swiftly <3

The menu element for the post type archive page “Products” was added by a plugin, and yes, it would seem something is flawed in the way they determine current page for menus. I’ll let them know, and see if they feel like fixing it.

Once again thanks for the help!

I have another question, now that basic functionality is restored ??

I would love to be able to set how many levels of Ancestors should have siblings shown

Example:

• Products

• Type

• Type 1

• Info

• Usage