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1. kwj
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Howdy,

   We are using WP as a lost-cost CMS solution for some intranet websites, so the site mainly consists of pages. I currently have a left-nav that consists of the parent page and child pages, that is generated by the following:

   <div id="sidebar">
   
   <?php
   if($post->post_parent)
   $children = wp_list_pages("sort_column=menu_order&amp;title_li=&amp;child_of=".$post->post_parent."&amp;echo=0"); else
   $children = wp_list_pages("sort_column=menu_order&amp;title_li=&amp;child_of=".$post->ID."&amp;echo=0");
   if ($children) { ?>
   <ul>
   <li class="top">
   <?php
   $parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
   echo $parent_title;
   ?>
   </li>
   <?php echo $children; ?>
   </ul>
   <?php } ?>

   Which is fine, except, the parent page item is not a link, so I need to make it a link.

   I tried adapting various versions of:
   

   <?php if($post->post_parent) {
        $parent = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT post_title FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post->post_parent");
        $parent_link = get_permalink($post->post_parent); ?>
        <a href="<?php echo $parent_link; ?>">Back to <?php echo $parent->post_title; ?></a>
   <?php } ?>

   which I got from the forums here. And while it would sort of work, it is applying extra classes that are causing the layout to get hosed.

   What I need is a cleaner way of adding the parent page link at the top of the navigation so I can style it from my master css. (I'm applying all my styles based on the div ID, ingoring the WP classes in this case).

   Any ideas?...

2. RoseCitySister
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   I don't have a solution to your current dilemma, but if I may offer an alternative solution:

   Breadcrumb NavXT - a plugin that makes "bread crumb" navigation for your users. It would show the parent page, I am assuming at the top of the post or page.

3. kwj
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Thanks for that tip, I am going to look at adding that for complex sites.

   We still want to fix our left-navigation, so any help getting the parent page links in the main nav would be appreciated! :-)

4. nathan12343
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Hi,

   To be honest I am not really sure if I know what I am doing, but I have been after exactly the same thing. By taking your two examples I have put together this:

   <?php
   if($post->post_parent)
   $children = wp_list_pages("sort_column=menu_order&amp;title_li=&amp;child_of=".$post->post_parent."&amp;echo=0"); else
   $children = wp_list_pages("sort_column=menu_order&amp;title_li=&amp;child_of=".$post->ID."&amp;echo=0");
   if ($children) { ?>
   <ul>
   <li class="top">
   <?php
   $parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
   echo $parent_title;
   ?>
   <li><?php
   $parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);?>
   <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->post_parent) ?>"><?php echo $parent_title;?></a>
   </li>
           <?php echo $children;?>
       <?php }?>

   As you can see all I did differently to your first code (that showed the title, but not the link) was to wrap the a tag with permalink reference.

   It does the job for me so thank you for posting!! I hope that it works for you.

5. nathan12343
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   ...actually I take it back. This isn't quite doing the job!

   The code I submitted shows the immediate parent. But does anyone know how I could show the original parent - if for example I was on a grandchild page?

6. nathan12343
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   For anyone interested I think that I may have cracked it. I am not a coder at all so this might be really ugly, but it does the job for me. TBH I am not sure that I really understand why it works!! I took a lot of code from many threads and kept going until it worked...

   I have a side menu where I only want to show the parent (and link to it) and all the children & grandchildren - no matter where I am within the parents family. I also wanted a link to the site's homepage always at the top. I think it uses fairly normal theme css (depending how many levels of UL your css file has I guess)

   If anyone can make this more elegant it would be great.

   <?php
       if($post->post_parent) {
           $parent = get_post($post->post_parent);
           if ($parent->post_parent) {
               $children = wp_list_pages("depth=3&amp;sort_column=menu_order&amp;title_li=&amp;child_of=".$parent->post_parent."&amp;echo=0");
           } else {
               $children = wp_list_pages("depth=3&amp;sort_column=menu_order&amp;title_li=&amp;child_of=".$post->post_parent."&amp;echo=0");
           }
       }
       else
           $children = wp_list_pages("depth=3&amp;sort_column=menu_order&amp;title_li=&amp;child_of=".$post->ID."&amp;echo=0");
       if ($children) {?>
       <h2>In this section:</h2>
       <ul>
       <li><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>">HOME</a></li>
       <li>
   
   	<?php //variables
   	$grandparent = $parent->post_parent;
   	$grandparent_title = get_the_title($grandparent);
   	$parent_title = get_the_title($parent);?>
   
   	<?php // is the page a grandchild?
   	if ($grandparent == is_page(0)) { ?>
   	<a href="/<?php echo $grandparent_title ?>"><?php echo $grandparent_title;?>	</a>
   
   	<?php // is the page a child?
   	} elseif ($post->post_parent ==is_page(0)) {?>
       <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->post_parent) ?>"><?php echo $parent_title;?></a>
   
       <?php // I must be this page!
   	} else { ?> <a href="<?php echo get_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?> <?php }?></a>
   
          <ul> <?php echo $children;?></ul></li>
          </ul>
   
       <?php }?>

   I hope that this is helpful to someone out there.

7. 11worth
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Hi All,

   I tried everything with no luck until, until I found this plugin, the "Sub Pages Widget" by Alper Haytabay.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subpages-widget/

   It works perfectly, and I now have the parent page linked, as well as all the features discussed above. Am using 2.7.1, so far so good.

   Hope this helps!

8. dakranii
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   If you want to display the title of the immediate parent of a subpage:

   <?php
   $parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
   echo $parent_title;
   ?>

   If you want to display the title of the immediate parent of a subpage and link to that page, use:

   <?php
   
   $parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);?>
   <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->post_parent) ?>"><?php echo $parent_title;?></a>
   
   <?php echo $children;?>

9. Fleetstar
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   @dakranii Thanks this works perfectly!

   Cheers,
   Maggy

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