First of all thanks for the tip off with the page_item and current_page_item styles, I had no idea it was that easy to do!

However, could you please tell me where I should add the php code you have on this page which checks to see if the current page is the homepage and highlight it accordingly?

I’ve tried adding it on both my header.php and sidebar.php and it messes up my site on both files.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Sam

<ul>
    <li><?php if (is_home()) echo " class=\"selected\""; ?>><a xhref="<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>">Home</a></li>
    <?php $pages = BX_get_pages();
        if ($pages) {
            foreach ($pages as $page) {
            $page_id = $page->ID;
            $page_title = $page->post_title;
            $page_name = $page->post_name;
            if ($page_name == "archives") {
                (is_page($page_id) || is_archive() || is_search() || is_single())?$selected = ‘ class="selected"’:$selected=”;
                echo "<li".$selected."><a xhref=\"".get_page_link($page_id)."\">Archives</a></li>\n";
            }
            elseif($page_name == "about") {
                (is_page($page_id))?$selected = ‘ class="selected"’:$selected=”;
                echo "<li".$selected."><a xhref=\"".get_page_link($page_id)."\">About</a></li>\n";
            }
            elseif ($page_name == "contact") {
                (is_page($page_id))?$selected = ‘ class="selected"’:$selected=”;
                echo "<li".$selected."><a xhref=\"".get_page_link($page_id)."\">Contact</a></li>\n";
            }
            elseif ($page_name == "about_short") {/*ignore*/}
            else {
                (is_page($page_id))?$selected = ‘ class="selected"’:$selected=”;
                echo "<li".$selected."><a xhref=\"".get_page_link($page_id)."\">$page_title</a></li>\n";
            }
        }
    }
?>
</ul>

in this case you would modify the class ".selected" from the stylesheet, to modify the look.

I use a different theme and for some reason modifying the css doesn’t work.

It highlights them when I mouseover but not when it is the main page.

Any more ideas?