jaychuck

Thanks a bunch man. It still was loading up my nav in order that the pages were numbered. So, maybe the entirely wrong fix, but I deleted each static page and created them again in order I wanted the nav in, and it worked.

The archives and single posts aren’t highlighting the events, but it sure is much better.

thanks a lot shirazdrum!

cheers,
Jay

That is working for my main nav menu staying highlighted when I click a child, thanks.

But…

Now the main menu is showing 2 home pages, and the order which it is showing the actual pages (about, contact, donate events etc) is in alphabetical order. Which is what it is in the admin pages section.

Also when I click on the events page, which is my blog page (home.php) it highlights the home page on the main nav menu.

And when I click an individual post it jumps from the events link highlighted(which is my blog page) to the home page highlighted.

I have made a static page for my home page and named it main.php, and my blog is on the home.php page under just a default template.

Still quite confused.

cheers,
Jay

Thanks for the reply.

My main nav menu. I have a menu such as:

home | about | services | events (blog page) | donate | contact

Then as childs as such: (the childs are not drop downs off of the main menu, they are separate wp_nav_menu)

about: 5 pages (template pages)
services: 3 pages (template pages)
events: which is my blog (which when I click on an individual post, my highlight goes away as well)
donate: 4 pages (template pages)
contact: 1 page (template page)

Each of the parents have there own template page and I have created a sidebar for each one (example: sidebar-about for the about page, sidebar-services for the services page) where each of the nav menus exist (ex: about sidebar nav menu is in the sidebar-about, and so on).

I have it set up by using .current_page_item to highlight the page I am on when I click on a page. Which works for the main pages. But soon as I click on a child of that specific page (clicking in the sidebar nav menu), the highlight in the main menu goes away.

As stated above, I have lurked and searched for solutions, and have found the .current_page_ancestor solution from almost every post. But when I us it in my css like this:

#main_nav ul li.current_page_item a,
#main_nav ul li.current_page_ancestor a {
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 20px;
color: #ffffff;
background: url(images/homesprite.png) no-repeat -285px -376px;
height:76px;
width:136px;
}

It does not work.

I have it set up so index.php is my actual home page, and home.php page is my blog page (which I have called events page).

Sorry for not giving more info, extremely frustrated as I have missed a deadline for the site for a client and I still have no answer for it.
Really can’t upload a site with no links highlighted. Not very good ux

cheers,
Jay