Comments on: Extending the Wordpress body_class function with the top level parent ID

By: KCA

KCA — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:14:49 +0000

It is great ^o^ but how it is possible to convert this code to the category in order to output the parent category?

By: MrX

MrX — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:49:35 +0000

Well, you just made my day! =)

That worked great. Thank you so much!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:50:25 +0000

Hi MrX,

try using this class “top-level-parent-pageid-2” instead of “.page-id-2“.

If that doesn’t work, send a link of your blog so we can explore this to the bone.

By: MrX

MrX — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:21:08 +0000

It took me awhile to find something like this, so I was quite glad to find this post. However, I’m not having success. I have gone to the header.php and made sure to change the to

I then went to style.css and added the following style for my about page:
.page-id-2 {
background: #FF3366;
}

I then added your code in my function.php

Yet, my mission page, a subpage of About doesn’t carry pull the same background color. I’m using the “default” theme for testing purpose and running WP 2.9.1

Any advice?

By: admin

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:27:31 +0000

Hi Sergi,

what you are trying to do is not possible with the normal function. Try to look into your source code and see what body classes are generated for that specific page. Normally you should find something like “postid-2893″, that’s the one you need.

If you still having trouble, shout and we’ll dive in deeper

By: sergi

sergi — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:12:13 +0000

Hi, i’m having trouble understanding how to leverage the body_class function using css.

My understanding is that in 2.8 +, the body class is dynamically generated. So if my page is titled About, and my blog page is titled News, the classes .about and .news will be generated.

if that is the case, i would assume the following css would work – but it doesn’t:

body.about {background: orange;}
body.news {background: red;}

what am i doing wrong? why doesn’t this css work (note: i’m using a clean kubrick theme install)

thank you for your help regarding this matter.

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