wp_nav_menu not setting current_menu_item?

  • If I go to the Menus and update the Main Menu to include an item called News:

    URL: /news/
    Navigation Label: News
    Title Attribute: news

    the News item shows up in my menu. Great. But when I then navigate to /news/, WordPress does not add a current_menu_item class to the <li>.

    Nor does it give the <li> menu item an id or a name of “news” – instead it’s called something unhelpful like “menu-item-899”.

    Why doesn’t WordPress add the current_menu_item class? Surely it has all the information it needs to do this?

    And how can I style the <li> item to show that it is the current item? I really don’t want to have to use jquery to look at the page name – messy.

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