Title: Multiple Active Menu Items
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Multiple Active Menu Items

 *  [Jordan Neenan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forxs/)
 * (@forxs)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-active-menu-items/)
 * The current(active) menu items work as expected until I go in to a post that 
   has multiple categories selected. Since the menu for my site has been made in
   the Appearance->Menus admin page as category menu items, when a post has two 
   categories selected that are also in the main navigation both appear with the
   style of the current menu item.
 * Does anyone know how I can limit the menu to only be able to display one that
   has an active state.
 * This is the code to include the menu if it helps:
 * `<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'mainMenu' ,'container' => false,'
   container_class'=>'menuHolder','menu_class' => 'menuTop') ); ?>`
 * Thanks.

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 *  Thread Starter [Jordan Neenan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forxs/)
 * (@forxs)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-active-menu-items/#post-2600956)
 * I found another person with the same issue here – no responses to that one though-
   >
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-categories-on-single-post-creating-multiple-current-menu-items?replies=3](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-categories-on-single-post-creating-multiple-current-menu-items?replies=3)
 * “Hello,
 * I have been using wp_nav_menu consisting of multiple categories(pages) and their
   children(sub-menu) and driving the active menu item through css.
 * The issue is that when I have a post with multiple categories, it creates multiple
   menu items with with the class “current-menu-item” and “current-post-ancestor”
   assigned to it.
 * I would like a way for only the first category of the post to be shown as the“
   current” menu item.
 * should I edit the nav_menu_template.php? or maybe deactivate the second/third
   category while the menu generates itself and put it back afterwards?
 * Thanks in advance,”

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
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 * Last reply from: [Jordan Neenan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forxs/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-active-menu-items/#post-2600956)
 * Status: not resolved

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