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filosofo
on Oct 27, 2005

WordPress Plugin: Highlight Current Category

Amanzimtoti on the WordPress testers’ list suggested a core change that would insert the class “current-cat” into the link for a category, if someone’s browsing the archives under that category. It would allow WordPress users to style their themes so as to highlight the relevant category–a good idea. (Amanzimtoti invited everyone to check it out on his blog.)

I figured there must be way to do it using a plugin, so I came up with the Filosofo Highlight Current Category plugin. It should work with WordPress 1.5 and newer. Just extract one of the files below, upload, and activate.

Note: The features in this plugin were added to WordPress back in version 2.0. You do not need to install this plugin in a recent version of WordPress.

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7 Comments

  1. stuart
    wrote on October 28, 2005 at 12:08 am

    Good stuff – that’s much better than hacking the core files!

    Cheers – Stuart

  2. jim wrote on November 20, 2006 at 9:38 pm

    Thanks for the plugin, it looks good. Is there any way to get the parent category to stay highlighted when you select a child of that category?

  3. Martijn Stegink
    wrote on February 2, 2007 at 6:14 pm

    I try to figure out a way to add the ‘current-cat’ to the category when a post is read in that category (single post). Any clue how to do that?

    Cheers.
    Martijn

  4. Prashant
    wrote on August 10, 2007 at 1:49 am

    just what i was looking for. will try it asap on my blog. thanks

  5. manele
    wrote on December 1, 2007 at 3:55 am

    thank you for this solution! this help me a lot. i was sick to modify my theme all the time:)

  6. houserocker
    wrote on December 16, 2007 at 12:17 pm

    Thanks for this great plugin!!

  7. mark
    wrote on October 25, 2009 at 8:16 am

    It looks like its what I have been looking for.Im going to give it a try straight away.Thanks

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