I can add categories, I can even add a custom post type archive, but I can’t add the original posts archive.
It’s not among the page list.
I worked around this by creating a page, creating a page-pagename.php file, displaying the posts there and linking to that page, but when that page is shown, the menu item doesn’t have the ‘current-menu-item’ class.
If you don’t have static front page
Since you can add a custom post type archive, then just specify
post_type=post
.If you have static front page
Go to
Settings -> Reading
and specify posts page you’ve created asPosts page
from dropdown. Now all necessary classes will be added to Nav Menu âcurrent-menu-item
,current-menu-parent
,current_page_item
,current_page_parent
among others.Be sure to create custom template for this page. Otherwise it will utilize
page.php
template file. You can alter a copy ofcategory.php
.Instead of finding out how to put a custom archive link in the menu (which would still be nice to know), I found the problem with my custom page template solution.
To display the posts in the News page template I obviously had to alter the original query, which carried the News page record. Since the footer, which was outputting the menu, only came after the loop, it couldn’t find out which page it was on – hence it couldn’t correctly assign the current-menu-item class.
All it took was a
wp_reset_query();
command after the custom loop and we’re good.