Highlighting static Home page menu

In WordPress, if you use the current_page_item class for your menus so you can highlight the menu item for that page, it won’t work for the home page if it is set to be a static home page and not the blog page.  To get around that, you have to hard code the home page and check if the current page is the front page, and if so, highlight the home page.

In style.css

<code>

#navlist li.current_page_item {
background:#d9531e;
color:#FFF !important;
}

In your header.php for the menu list.

<div id=”navcontainer”>
<ul id=”navlist”>
<?php if (is_front_page())  {?>
<li class=”current_page_item”><a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>”>Home</a></li>
<?php } else { ?>
<li><a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>”>Home</a></li>
<?php }?>
<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=’); ?>
</ul>
</div>

</code>