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crazydrake
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Homepage Menu showing Multiple “active” menu items - reply
#543305
Aug 6, 2026 at 11:08 pm

Claude for the win! – Found it — confirmed directly in the page’s DOM. The cause is a menu link URL collision, not a bug in the “active state” logic itself:

The root issue: Under each of the SPORTS, NEWS, MUSIC, and BUSINESS dropdowns, the “Writers” submenu header is set to link to https://barrettmedia.com/ — the homepage — instead of a real anchor page (probably because there’s no dedicated “Writers” landing page, so whoever built the menu left the URL pointing at home as a placeholder).

WordPress’s nav walker assigns the current-menu-item / current_page_item classes (which drive the “active” styling) by comparing each menu item’s URL to the current page’s URL. Since four separate “Writers” items all share the exact same href as HOME, all of them get flagged current/active whenever you’re on the homepage — alongside HOME itself, which is correctly active.

That’s 5 “active” items per menu instance (HOME + 4x Writers). And because the theme renders the same nav markup three times in the DOM (desktop menu, mobile menu, and what looks like a sticky/duplicate header version — all sharing the menu-fall-2025-main-menu-2 menu), it shows up 15 times total in the page.

The fix: give each “Writers” submenu parent a real destination (an actual writers/authors archive page, or at minimum a distinct # / non-matching anchor) instead of the bare homepage URL. Once those links stop matching https://barrettmedia.com/, WordPress will stop marking them current, and only HOME will show active on the homepage.

crazydrake
tagDiv Member
Tag Div Composer – Heavy Search Queries - reply
#543163
Jul 23, 2026 at 2:56 am

Thank you Simion!

crazydrake
tagDiv Member
Newsweek Pro Theme Overloading with some MySQL queries - reply
#534827
Sep 17, 2025 at 5:57 pm

is there a specific object caching plugin you recommend with this theme?

crazydrake
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Tag Page Not Showing Content - reply
#527590
Mar 16, 2025 at 7:31 pm

So I’m an idiot. I didn’t realize the offset for articles was set at 4. Nothing to see here. Please move on and close me out! Thanks!

crazydrake
tagDiv Member
TD Composer Crashing our Server - reply
#514543
Aug 8, 2024 at 7:17 pm

Yeah – We’re only using TD Composer for our homepage. All our post editing is using the classic editor and we don’t really update the post template all that often.

crazydrake
tagDiv Member
Urban Observer Theme – Spiking Our Server’s Resources - reply
#514145
Aug 2, 2024 at 1:52 am

Just for clarity’s sake – We’re using LiteSpeed Cache for Image Optimization & CSS & JS Minify.

crazydrake
tagDiv Member
Inline Article Ad Not Showing - reply
#513106
Jul 18, 2024 at 6:24 pm

Perfect! Exactly what I needed – Thanks so much!

crazydrake
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Post Excerpt Not Showing – UrbanObeserver Template - reply
#512791
Jul 16, 2024 at 5:30 am

Sorry – I figured this one out as well. We’ll start using the Post Subtitle!

crazydrake
tagDiv Member
Post Excerpt Not Showing – UrbanObeserver Template - reply
#512777
Jul 15, 2024 at 6:43 pm

Sorry – I mean to write – We’re noticing the main article template for UrbanObserver doesn’t have it showing.

crazydrake
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Customize Ads for Different Categories - reply
#512672
Jul 14, 2024 at 7:05 pm

I figured it out! Cloned the global template and made a category template and added the ads I needed. Thanks!

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