Title: Recent Posts Widget missing current_menu_item
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Recent Posts Widget missing current_menu_item

 *  [RebelEgg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rebelegg/)
 * (@rebelegg)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-missing-current_menu_item/)
 * The Recent Posts widget adds (as you might guess) a list of the most recent posts
   to a menu. Unlike the Custom Menu widget (another WP standard widget), the Recent
   Posts widget does not add the current_menu_item class when a post is selected(
   being displayed).
 * This seems like a major oversight, am I missing something? If not, does anyone
   know of a third party widget that lists the most recent posts and includes the
   current_menu_item class (or equivalent)? …or perhaps some magical hack to active
   the result of adding a class to the active list item?

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 * [active](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/active/)
 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
 * [current_menu_item](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/current_menu_item/)
 * [selection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/selection/)

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 * Last reply from: [RebelEgg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rebelegg/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-missing-current_menu_item/)
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