Custom menu item not getting current-menu-item class added

This may be a bug. I’ve discovered it with a default menu widget. .menu-item-home doesn’t also get .current-menu-item when on the page defined in that link.

I found on my site that by including the trailing / it worked. However on another site it isn’t working, but that’s maybe because there’s a bunch of stuff following the url. If you’re simply pointing it to your home page include the trailing slash and that might work.

Adding a trailing slash “/” at the end of the custom menu URL worked for me too.

seems like you need to use full url with the https://… works for me now.

@karlevid – Happy to also confirm adding https://… to the start of the custom link prompts WP to add the correct ‘current’ and ‘ancestor’ etc. classes. Thanks!

I just dealt with this same issue.
I found that not only did I have to add https://..
But also the https://www..

Not sure if the trailing slash was needed or not, but there you go.