Displaying only the direct children of a parent page ( sidebar nav list)

joncalex
(@joncalex)

15 years, 3 months ago
Here is my code:
```
<?php
  if($post->post_parent) {
  $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->post_parent."&echo=0"); }
  else {
  $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->ID."&echo=0"); }
  if ($children) { ?>
  <ul>
  <?php echo $children; ?>
  </ul>
  <?php } ?>
```
This outputs children and grandchildren links. I want to only display the direct children for a particular page, which I will wrap in a conditional. So what I need to do is tell it not to display the grandchildren. I hope this makes sense.

Anyone have the expertise to figure this out? I’ve had trouble searching for this online.

Thanks!

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Tammy Hart
(@tammyhart)

15 years, 3 months ago

This is what you’re looking for: WordPress: How to List Child Pages in Sidebar

sudhishchemmur
(@sudhishchemmur)

15 years, 2 months ago

I am looking for reverse functionality.

I have a page by name ‘Parent Page’ and there are 5 child pages say ‘Page A’,’Page B’,’Page C’,’Page D’,’Page E’ which is under ‘Parent Page’. I want to get the parent page name listes when I am within any child page. I tried many and finally decided to write a custom code in sidebar.php

<?php
$post_obj = $wp_query->get_queried_object();
$post_ID = $post_obj->ID;
$post_title = $post_obj->post_title;
$post_name = $post_obj->post_name;
$post_ParentPage = $post_obj->post_parent;

?>

<?php

$querystr = “SELECT post_parent from wp_posts where ID=”.$post_ID;
$pageposts = $wpdb->get_results($querystr, OBJECT);
echo ‘
##’.$post_parent.’##’;
?>

The problem is that the $post_parent always displays null. Can someone help me on this?

s_ha_dum
(@apljdi)

15 years, 2 months ago

sudhishchemmur… you can’t really ‘echo’ an object, which is what you’ve asked wpdb to return. Try print_r($post_parent) and see what you get.

Possibly, what you want to do is echo $post_parent->ID.

Alternately, you could use $wpdb->get_var which will return a plain vanilla variable rather than an array or an object. If you use get_var you should be able to just echo it out.

gabesands
(@gabesands)

15 years ago

Look here, maybe this will help

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_pages
Maxaud
(@maxaud)

15 years ago
Try this:
```
<?php
	if($post->post_parent)
		$children = wp_list_pages("sort_column=ID&amp;depth=1&amp;title_li=&amp;child_of=".$post->post_parent."&amp;echo=0");
	else
		$children = wp_list_pages("sort_column=ID&amp;depth=1&amp;title_li=&amp;child_of=".$post->ID."&amp;echo=0");
	if ($children) { ?>
		<ul class="child"><?php echo $children; ?></ul>
<?php } ?>
```
kapiljainin
(@kapiljainin)

14 years, 12 months ago

@sudhishchemmur

It might help you:

http://kapiljain.in/blog/how-to-get-page-root-parent-in-wordpress/

mayoosuf
(@mayoosuf)

14 years, 11 months ago

@kapiljain.in

its a nice code snippet, what I was searching for, and just I got it. thanks!

BTW, if possible an enhancement can be done as if the chilled pages not exist better not to display the title(parent page name).

pvf
(@pvf)

14 years, 10 months ago

Hello!!
i think this is along the lines of what i have to do.
in plain English:

I need to SELECT the posts that have the same term_id and parent_id as the one being displayed.

how would this be created in SQL?
this would also need to be dynamic, with no category ids hardcoded….

please i hope somebody can help me with this! i have spent to many hours trying to figure it out with no luck 🙁

thank you in advance….