Comments on: Add a Category and Page Specific Class to the Body Tag in WordPress

By: veerendra

veerendra — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:42:50 +0000

Thank you so much for this discussion.
@otto : I tried your trick and its working well

Thanks to all.

By: darrin

darrin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:41:49 +0000

I actually recently wrote an article that addresses this very thing. I wrote a small script that dynamically adds an id to the body element. It takes the same parameters as WP’s core body_class() function.

You can check the article out here:
http://darrinb.com/notes/2010/adding-a-custom-id-to-the-body-element-in-wordpress/

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:59:05 +0000

I’ll definitely check out that article, Otto; however, it would be highly inconvenient to have to style pages by id. Much handier to use is_page.

Which actually brings me to my real question:

will is_page apply to child pages as well? Or is there some sort of is_child(‘parentname’) function? Being able to style an entire “category” (not WP categories, but in the general sense of the word) of pages at once would be very handy for CMS.

By: Tom Kenny

Tom Kenny — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:04:21 +0000

Ignore this comment, testing threaded replies on a new theme design for Inspect Element.

By: Otto

Otto — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:40:33 +0000

Actually, since WordPress 2.8, there actually is a built in way to do this.

Change your body tag to look like this:
[body [?php body_class(); ?] ]

The body_class function outputs a “class=’whatever’” piece, and the classes it outputs depend on where you are on the site.

For example, the front page gets “home”, other Pages get “page”, individual pages get page-id-## (where the ## is the id number of the Page), etc.

A full list of what gets what can be found here: http://wpengineer.com/wordpress-28-body_class-automatic_feed_links/

By: Sajid Iqbal

Sajid Iqbal — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:06:33 +0000

Thanks. This is what I was looking for.