How to set class to the first element of wp_list_pages

Why don’t you just use the classes that are already there? You *can* add a class, if you must, but wp_list_pages already provides classes for each link. View your source code – it’s something like class="page_id_ID"

Doodlebee’s right, you could use WP’s pre-existing class for this. The only drawback of that is that if you reorder your Pages so that a different Page comes first in the list, then whatever you were doing to the first item in the Page list before you’ll now be doing to a different item instead.

To add a class of “first” to the first item in your Page list, whatever Page that happens to be, something like this should work:

$page_list = wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&sort_column=menu_order&echo=0’);
$page_list = preg_replace(‘class="page_item‘, ‘class=”first page_item’, $page_list, 1);
echo $page_list;

For the wp_list_pages() call in the first line of the above, just use whatever you’re already using with “&echo=0” added to the end of the parameters.

– Tim

That works, thanks, though the preg_replace is preg_replace(‘class=”page_item’, ‘/class=”first page_item/’, $page_list, 1);

Thanks ??

Sorry, my code used backticks as delimiters, which the forum software here stripped out. Glad you worked out what needed tweaking to get it to work.

– Tim

hey,

i had the same probleme, then i found a function in a thread, but it did not work, so i rewrote it and is works pretty well,

i’m shure it could be imporved by comdining both regex into one, but still, it works pretty good

function add_last_class($input) {
	if( !empty($input) ) {

		$pattern = '/<li class="/is';
		$replacement = '<li class="first ';

		$input = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $input);

		$pattern = '/<li class="(?!.*<li class=")/is';
		$replacement = '<li class="last ';

		$input = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $input);

		echo $input;
	}
}

/* the echo=0 parma is important here */
add_last_class(wp_list_categories('title_li=&echo=0'));

hope it helps