Posted 1 year ago #
I've Googled this for ages now, and the only code I can get ahold of lists siblings WITH a parent heading. I want to ONLY list sibling pages, NOT any parent(s).
Anyone know of a way to do this using standard template tags?
For example, if my page structure was:
if I were on 'Plums', i want to show a list of:
I do not want any list to show if the user is on 'fruits' or 'veggies'.
Posted 1 year ago #
Thanks for the reply esmi, I should have been more clear.
It seems the list_subpages function only lets me list subpages of the current page. It lets me list siblings, but I don't know how to make that list only show up when on a grandchild page of a particular parent page.
Essentially, I only want this list of siblings to show under a particular parent page which has children and grandchildren. I want the list to only show on the grandchildren pages.
So for example, if this was my sitemap:
I want to ONLY show the siblings of the grandchildren of Fruits when on a grandchild of fruits, and only grandchildren of Fruits, not of Veggies or Favorites. So If I'm on Cherries, I want to see links to Cherries, Apples and Strawberries.
Can anyone help with this? AAt this point, I'm even willing to use a custom page template, but as this is for a client I cannot expect them to manually add page ID's to a PHP file. It must be automated to some degree.
Thanks in advance for any advice. I hope I've been clear enough.
Posted 1 year ago #
You'd need to pass the ID of the parent page to to the call to wp_list_pages, which you can get via:
global $page
$parent = $page->page_parent;And then you can pass that to wp_list_pages(), e.g.
wp_list_pages( 'child_of=$parent' );(something like that)
Posted 1 year ago #
Thanks for your reply Chip.
That's *just* beyond my PHP abilities I'm afraid. Could I bother you to mark something up for me?
See this section of the Codex page. Or see http://pastebin.com/r3c51F4U
Posted 1 year ago #
Thanks esmi. I wish I understood PHP a bit better. I know enough to get through most common WordPress functions, but not much else.
Posted 1 year ago #
I'm sorry; I typed way too quickly. You want to use $post rather than $page
To output what you want, it should be something like this:
<ul>
<?php
global $post
$current_page_parent = ( $post->post_parent ? $post_post_parent : $post->ID );
wp_list_pages( 'title_li=&child_of=$current_page_parent&depth=1' );
?>Explanation:
title_li= - this ensures that the function outputs only the list items, and not the containing UL. More importantly, ensures that the current Page is not output as a header/title for the list.
(If you want to output such a header, omit the containing
tags, as well as the
title_li= argument.)
depth=1 - ensures that only sibling pages are included, and not any children of sibling pages.
(If you want to include children of sibling pages, then omit this argument.)
child_of=$current_page_parent - returns the ID of the current Page's parent Page, so that the current Page's siblings are output.
Posted 1 year ago #
Aargh. Fat-fingered the code again. Should be this:
<ul>
<?php
global $post
$current_page_parent = ( $post->post_parent ? $post->post_parent : $post->ID );
wp_list_pages( 'title_li=&child_of=$current_page_parent&depth=1' );
?>
Posted 1 year ago #
Third time's a charm:
<ul>
<?php
global $post
$current_page_parent = ( $post->post_parent ? $post->post_parent : $post->ID );
wp_list_pages( 'title_li=&child_of=$current_page_parent&depth=1' );
?>
</ul>
Posted 1 year ago #
Hi Chip, I'm getting a syntax error with your last bit of code, the line starting with $current_page_parent
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting ',' or ';'
Any ideas?
Posted 1 year ago #
Any ideas?
Yeah: global $post needs a semicolon:
global $post;
Posted 1 year ago #
<ul>
<?php
global $post
$current_page_parent = ( $post->post_parent ? $post->post_parent : $post->ID );
wp_list_pages( 'title_li=&child_of=$current_page_parent&depth=1' );
?>
</ul>This is returning a list of all top-level pages on the site. Any ideas why?
Posted 1 year ago #
<ul>
<?php
global $post;
$current_page_parent = ( $post->post_parent ? $post->post_parent : $post->ID );
wp_list_pages( 'title_li=&child_of=$current_page_parent&depth=1' );
?>
</ul>For some reason this comment system is removing semi-colon after global $post
Posted 1 year ago #
Not entirely sure. If it is a problem with the wp_list_pages() syntax, you could try adding the arguments as an array, instead of a string:
<ul>
<?php
global $post;
$current_page_parent = ( $post->post_parent ? $post->post_parent : $post->ID );
wp_list_pages( array(
'title_li' => '',
'child_of' => $current_page_parent,
'depth' => '1' );
?>
</ul>Are you viewing the output from a static Page?
Posted 1 year ago #
Crap; syntax fail (again). Let me try again:
<ul>
<?php
global $post;
$current_page_parent = ( $post->post_parent ? $post->post_parent : $post->ID );
wp_list_pages( array(
'title_li' => '',
'child_of' => $current_page_parent,
'depth' => '1' )
);
?>
</ul>
Posted 1 year ago #
That seems to have done the trick Chip. Thanks a lot man I owe you a beer!
Posted 1 year ago #
Glad you got it working! :)
Posted 5 months ago #
Opened an account just to thank you for this code Chip.
works a treat.
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