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1. kjetilgf
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Tried to search, but no luck:
   How can I insert a link in a sub-page that points to its parent page?
   Such a short php snippet for my main template would make it much easier building the rest of my site. If someone can help me, please include the brackets and all - I'm not much of a handcoder.
   Thanks,
   Kjetil

2. kjetilgf
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Not possible?
   Wrong forum?
   Thanks :o)

3. flashaaron
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   A bit late, I know, but you could try adding something along the lines of:

   <?php if($post->post_parent) {
   	$parent_link = get_permalink($post->post_parent); ?>
   <a href="<?php echo $parent_link; ?>">Link to parent page</a>
   <?php } ?>

   to your template file.

4. mashby
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   That was just the solution I was looking for. Thank you flashaaron!

5. OneEyedParrot
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks flash! You did a good thing to post the solution in a google-able topic. :)

6. particulartastes
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   So extremely useful flashaaron!

   Use in combination with information from this page:

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/160732?replies=5

   Replace "Link to parent page" in the above code with the code below to specifically call whatever the parent's name is:

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

7. tanchiahuei
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks flashaaron!

   I was creating all the other sub-page navigation links manually in a list since i'm not great with wordpress loops yet. Then I ran into problems linking back to the parent page, because it would have double the permalink e.g. creatine_guide/creatine_guide :p

   Thanks very much for the bit of wordpress code, saved me hours of searching.

8. tanchiahuei
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   For the benefit of other users.... I stumbled upon a small problem with the earlier code. On the child pages, the parent page link appears. However, on the parent page itself, it's not there!

   I finally worked it out by repeating the echo parent link part:

   <?php if($post->post_parent) {
   	$parent_link = get_permalink($post->post_parent); ?>
   <a href="<?php echo $parent_link; ?>">Main</a>
   <?php  }
   else { ?> <a href="<?php echo $parent_link; ?>">Main</a>
   <?php }
   ?>

   At least it worked for my system, where I only had 1 parent page. Hope this is useful for others :)

9. misternifty
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Flash is the man.

10. misternifty
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I just added to this code so it grabs the parent page's title and dynamically changes the link per page.

    <?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 } ?>

11. elC0mmen
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Nice!

12. tison
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    This may be off topic, but if you're hoping to use this display a breadcrumb type list - this post is very helpful in doing so:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/179226?replies=13

    Also, here is some available codes for $post:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/168285

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