Show parent page above nested subpages in sidebar navigation

Hi Rikard,

I should have supplied that earlier. Here it is. (In private content.). You see that the sidebar link About Us, which is the parent, isn’t active.

Thank you,

Hi Vinay. The problem is not how to style that Parent, but to make it an active link.

If you go to that page, you’ll see that on the left sidebar is the Parent “About Us”. When you try to click it, you’ll see that it’s not active like it’s children below. I wish to make the Parent (About Us) an active link–going to the About Us parent page.

Thanks for the work on that Ismael. Your edit to the code has made it active, but it’s adding extra space bottom padding to it.

Here’s the updated code in its entirety:

/* adds the parent page in sidebar navigation */

function avia_sidebar_menu($echo = true)
{
	$sidebar_menu = "";

	$subNav = avia_get_option('page_nesting_nav');

	
	$the_id = @get_the_ID();
	$args 	= array();
	global $post;

	if($subNav && $subNav != 'disabled' && !empty($the_id) && is_page())
	{
		$subNav = false;
		$parent = $post->ID;
		$sidebar_menu = "";

		if (!empty($post->post_parent))
		{
			if(isset($post->ancestors)) $ancestors  = $post->ancestors;
			if(!isset($ancestors)) $ancestors  = get_post_ancestors($post->ID);
			$root		= count($ancestors)-1;
			$parent 	= $ancestors[$root];
		}

		$args = array('title_li'=>'', 'child_of'=>$parent, 'echo'=>0, 'sort_column'=>'menu_order, post_title');

		//enables user to change query args
		$args = apply_filters('avia_sidebar_menu_args', $args, $post);

		//hide or show child pages in menu - if the class is set to 'widget_nav_hide_child' the child pages will be hidden
		$display_child_pages = apply_filters('avia_sidebar_menu_display_child', 'widget_nav_hide_child', $args, $post);

		$children = wp_list_pages($args);

		if ($children)
		{
			$default_sidebar = false;
			$sidebar_menu .= "<a href='". get_the_permalink($parent) ."'>".get_the_title($parent)."</a>";
			$sidebar_menu .= "<nav class='widget widget_nav_menu $display_child_pages'><ul class='nested_nav'>";
			$sidebar_menu .= $children;
			$sidebar_menu .= "</ul></nav>";
		}
	}

	$sidebar_menu = apply_filters('avf_sidebar_menu_filter', $sidebar_menu, $args, $post);

	if($echo == true) { echo $sidebar_menu; } else { return $sidebar_menu; }
}

Thanks much. All looking right now.