Question

Because I’m using a couple of custom post types and two languages I decided not to use WP’s own menu function, and used these conditional statements instead –

<div class="navigation">
<ul>
    <li><a <?php if(is_page('home') || is_page('hem')) { echo 'class="active" '; } if (ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE == 'en') { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo(url) . '">Home'; } else { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo(url) . '">Hem'; } ?></a></li>
    <li><a <?php if(is_page('offers') || is_page('erbjudanden') || in_category('offers') || in_category('erbjudanden')) { echo 'class="active" '; } if (ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE == 'en') { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . 'offers">Offers'; } else { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . '/erbjudanden">Erbjudanden'; } ?></a></li>
    <li><a <?php if(is_page('properties-spain') || is_page('fastigheter-spanien')) { echo 'class="active" '; } if (ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE == 'en') { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . 'properties-spain">Properties in Spain'; } else { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . '/fastigheter-spanien">Fastigheter i Spanien'; } ?></a></li>
    <li><a <?php if(is_page('properties-usa') || is_page('fastigheter-usa')) { echo 'class="active" '; } if (ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE == 'en') { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . 'properties-usa">Properties in USA'; } else { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . '/fastigheter-usa">Fastigheter i USA'; } ?></a></li>
    <li><a <?php if(is_subpage('information') || is_subpage('radgivning')) { echo 'class="active" '; } if (ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE == 'en') { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . 'information/process-of-purchase">Information'; } else { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . '/radgivning/hur-ett-kop-gar-till">Rådgivning'; } ?></a></li>
    <li><a <?php if(is_page('about-us') || is_page('om-oss')) { echo 'class="active" '; } if (ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE == 'en') { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . 'about-us">About us'; } else { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . '/om-oss">Om oss'; } ?></a></li>
    <li class="last"><a <?php if(is_page('contact') || is_page('kontakt')) { echo 'class="active" '; } if (ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE == 'en') { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . 'contact">Contact'; } else { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . '/kontakt">Kontakt'; } ?></a></li>
</ul>
</div>

Now this works excellent including it in the header file but in the footer file only some of the links are given a class of active when on the actual page. All the items in the menu exists as pages, with one version for each language (swedish and english). This error just seems really weird and I’ve tried checking with different conditional parameters such as page title, page id etc. with no results. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Sometimes queries higher up in the template source will corrupt the output of conditional tags lower down (i.e. in your footer). The trick is to put wp_reset_query() before you use them in your footer include:

    <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
    <div class="navigation">
    <ul>
        <li><a <?php if(is_page('home') || is_page('hem')) { echo 'class="active" '; } if (ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE == 'en') { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo(url) . '">Home'; } else { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo(url) . '">Hem'; } ?></a></li>
        <li><a <?php if(is_page('offers') || is_page('erbjudanden') || in_category('offers') || in_category('erbjudanden')) { echo 'class="active" '; } if (ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE == 'en') { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . 'offers">Offers'; } else { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . '/erbjudanden">Erbjudanden'; } ?></a></li>
        <li><a <?php if(is_page('properties-spain') || is_page('fastigheter-spanien')) { echo 'class="active" '; } if (ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE == 'en') { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . 'properties-spain">Properties in Spain'; } else { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . '/fastigheter-spanien">Fastigheter i Spanien'; } ?></a></li>
        <li><a <?php if(is_page('properties-usa') || is_page('fastigheter-usa')) { echo 'class="active" '; } if (ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE == 'en') { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . 'properties-usa">Properties in USA'; } else { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . '/fastigheter-usa">Fastigheter i USA'; } ?></a></li>
        <li><a <?php if(is_subpage('information') || is_subpage('radgivning')) { echo 'class="active" '; } if (ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE == 'en') { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . 'information/process-of-purchase">Information'; } else { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . '/radgivning/hur-ett-kop-gar-till">Rådgivning'; } ?></a></li>
        <li><a <?php if(is_page('about-us') || is_page('om-oss')) { echo 'class="active" '; } if (ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE == 'en') { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . 'about-us">About us'; } else { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . '/om-oss">Om oss'; } ?></a></li>
        <li class="last"><a <?php if(is_page('contact') || is_page('kontakt')) { echo 'class="active" '; } if (ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE == 'en') { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . 'contact">Contact'; } else { echo 'href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . '/kontakt">Kontakt'; } ?></a></li>
    </ul>
    </div>