Dropdown menu display current page as first in list after selection

Hi @oliveirataquari,

I’m trying to understand how this would be desirable, since the plugin is designed to provide menus in posts/pages to navigate to other posts/pages/urls where the dropdown would not be visible. Are you trying to use the Menu In Post (MIP) plugin to navigate to the same page the MIP dropdown is on; e.g., for named anchors on the same page or a widget?

I haven’t heard back from you, so I am going to assume you have resolved this. Please let me know if you have further questions.

@oliveirataquari

Solution is pretty simple:

Make your function start_el in menu-in-post.php to looks like:

function start_el(&$output, $item, $depth = 0, $args = null, $id = 0)
    {
	// You need $wp
	global $wp;
		
        // Create each option.
        $item_output = '';

        // Add spacing to the title based on the depth.
        $item->title = str_repeat(' - ', $depth * 1) . $item->title;

        // Get the link.
        if (!empty($args->append_to_url)) {
            $attributes = !empty($item->url) ? ' value="' . esc_attr($item->url) . 
                $args->append_to_url .'"' : '';
        } else {
            $attributes = !empty($item->url) ? ' value="' . esc_attr($item->url) . 
                '"' : '';
        }
	// Here you're setting selected attribute on option
	$attributes.=' '.(home_url( $wp->request )==substr($item->url,0,-1) ? 'selected="selected"' : '');
		
        // Add the HTML.
        $item_output .= '<option'. $attributes .'>';
        $item_output .= apply_filters('the_title_attribute', $item->title);

        // Add the new item to the output string.
        $output .= $item_output;
    }

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by kojotkk.

And better one:
$attributes.=' '.($item->current ? 'selected="selected"' : '');

@kojotkk Is this functionality you want for the plugin too, or are you just being helpful?

Either way, thanks for the code suggestion.

I had to test the plugin for WP v. 5.8 and update the “tested to” version, so I went ahead and added this functionality to version 1.1.8 of Menu In Post which should be available for download momentarily. Thank you @oliveirataquari for the request and @kojotkk for the code snippet.