Link to parent page in navigation?

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.

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.

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.

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;?>

Here’s what I did.

if($post->post_parent) {
$children = wp_list_pages(“title_li=&child_of=”.$post->post_parent.”&echo=0″);
$titlenamer = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
$parentlink = get_permalink($post->post_parent);
}

else {
$children = wp_list_pages(“title_li=&child_of=”.$post->ID.”&echo=0″);
$titlenamer = get_the_title($post->ID);
$parentlink = get_permalink($post->ID);
}
if ($children) { ?>

• “><? echo $titlenamer; ?>
• <?php echo $children; ?>

<?php } ?>