problem with highlight in menu (change URL of events?)

Hi Tunix,

Yes you’re pretty much right – in fact, as far as WordPress is concerned, there is no hierarchical relationship at all between your page /stuff/stores and the event page. Changing the permalink structure won’t help here either – and may just cause 404s due to conflicts.

If you add the events ‘the-title-of-my-story1’ page (in Appearance > Menu) so that its underneath ‘stories’, then it should be reflected in the highlighting.

Of course you presumably don’t want links to all the event pages underneath /stuff/stories (as only 5 are live at any one time). So you will need to problematically hide those links from the menu when you don’t want them appearing.

… or if your menu is only 2 deep, the links will never show – but I still think the highlight would be correct…

Hi Stephen, sounds great but sadly doesn’t work for me :-/

Here is my link: kinderbuero.doppeldecker.info/bibelpiloten/kurzgeschichten/

It is a german site. You can see “Kurzgeschichten” which means “short stories” highlighted on the right. I put one of my stories (“Das unheimliche Haus”) to the menu. (I would hide it later) but if you click on that story, the highlight is gone :/

Is this a theme issue?

Is it possible to edit the single_event template in some way to let WP “think” it’s still on the story-site?
(I have exactly the same problem with another custom_post_type I made by myself)

thanks
tunix

I got it to run. Well, a friend of mine showed me a pretty simple trick.

.postid-1815 #menu-item-89 {
background: url(img/menu_kb_over.png) no-repeat !important;
}

Every page has its own ID in the body so you can target that in your style.css. And it works fine ??

Hi again,
obviously I don’t want to add that for EVERY event, so I changed the above to

.single-event #menu-item-88 { .. }

which still works fine for all events.

BUT I have another category in my events and these events have nothing to do with the short stories – so I do NOT want to highlight “stories” in my submenu.

Question: is it possible, to add another class to the body tag of each page? Right now you add “single single-event” right? How would I add the categorie name as a class to the body, so I can distinguish between them in my style.css?

I think WordPress automatically adds single single-event via body_class() – so it will depend on the theme you are using.

If I’m right, add the following to your theme’s functions.php:

add_filter( 'body_class', 'tunix_add_class_to_event_body');
function tunix_add_class_to_event_body($classes){

     if( !is_singular('event') )
        return $classes;

     //Add category classes
     $cats= get_the_terms(get_the_ID(), 'event-category');
     if( $cats ){
          foreach ($cats as $cat)
               $classes[] = esc_attr('eo-event-cat-'.$cat->slug);
     }

     return $classes;
}

I may incorporate this into 1.7 – seems useful. In fact I’ve made this gist which does adds class depending on the venue, whether the event is future, or past etc. I could add more classes depending on its recurrence.