Nav Walker current menu item not displaying

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I’m building a theme on top of a starter theme (wp-bootstrap) and am having trouble getting the Nav Walker to show the current menu item. current-menu-item is not there when I use a web inspector on the output html. So therefore I can’t style it.

This is the code in my template file:

          <?php
       /** Loading WordPress Custom Menu  **/
       wp_nav_menu( array(
          'menu'            => 'main-menu',
          'container' => '',
          'container_class' => 'navbar-blue',
          'menu_class'      => 'nav',
          'menu_id' => 'main-menu',
          'walker' => new Bootstrapwp_Walker_Nav_Menu()
      ) ); ?>

And this is the code in function.php:

include 'includes/class-bootstrapwp_walker_nav_menu.php';

And finally this is the code from the customer nav walker file:

class Bootstrapwp_Walker_Nav_Menu extends Walker_Nav_Menu {

function __construct() {
}
  function start_lvl(&$output, $depth) {

$indent = str_repeat("\t", $depth);
$output .= "\n$indent<ul class=\"dropdown-menu\">\n";
  }
}

I’ve looked over a few stackexchange answers and tried changing the code to match them, but nothing has solved the issue (ie: nothing has made current-menu-item appear in the html output).

Any help would be appreciated.

1 Answer
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Since it is working as you expect in the header.php file (but not in sidebar.php),
you could add this into header.php:

global $my_nav;
$my_nav= wp_nav_menu( array(
          'menu'            => 'main-menu',
          'container' => '',
          'container_class' => 'navbar-blue',
          'menu_class'      => 'nav',
          'menu_id' => 'main-menu',
          'walker' => new Bootstrapwp_Walker_Nav_Menu(),
          'echo' => 0,
      ) ); ?>

and then in your sidebar.php file you could add

global $my_nav;
echo $my_nav;

to display the menu.

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