Class “current_page_ancestor” not getting attached for post parent

  • I have a home page and a news page.

    News page is my blog, when on the news page or homepage the relevent item in my navigation gets the class ‘current_page_item’ so I can highlight it in CSS – this works fine.

    The problem is when I go to a post in the news page the news page item in my navigation is not getting passed ‘current_page_item’ or ‘current_page_ancestor’?! I can see the lodgic in classes.php but it seems like it doesn’t work correctly, any help?

    This has got me stumped.

    Thanks

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  • Thread Starter adamcodefor

    (@adamcodefor)

    I just noticed if I echo out the parent of the page i am on like so:

    <?php echo '<a href="'.get_permalink($post->post_parent).'">'.get_the_title($post->post_parent).'</a>'; ?>

    each of the post page parents are echoing as themselves and not news? Its like they are not assosiated with the news page?

    Thread Starter adamcodefor

    (@adamcodefor)

    Hmm I have still had no look with this, I would of thought its something that all wordpress blogs with a homepage would want?! It works fine for other pages that have parents just not the post<blog…

    Thread Starter adamcodefor

    (@adamcodefor)

    hmm still no help?

    Hi adam.codefor,

    I just had the same problem. For me it was a plugin that was causing problems. Luckily one of my own so I could resolve the issue. The problem is that the plugin calls the get_pages() function and that that array gets cached so the wp_list_pages() function will read that cache instead of fetching it out of the database. For some reason the current_page_ancestor class doesn’t get set then.

    The only thing I could do was flushing the cache (=wp_cache_flush()) to force WP to rebuild the cache and then it worked.

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