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1. doodlebee
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I'm trying to test for child pages of a particular parent. I've looked through the forums, and in the codex, and I've found the same answer for what I'm trying to do each time - however it's simply not working. Basically, I want a dropdown list to show up if the Page is ID of 10, or a child of that page ID. So I have this in my page.php file:

   <?php global $post;
         if(is_page('10') || $post->post_parent=="10") { ?>
         stuff here
     <?php } ?>

   Everything I can find will indicate this should work. But it's not - only page 10 is showing the "stuff here". I echoed out the $post_parent part, to see what was being returned (like so):

   <?php  global $post;
          $thisis = $post->post_parent;
          echo $thisis; ?>

   And it returns a value of "0" on the subpages. (And yes, they *are* children of 10). Isn't "0" the value returned if it's a parent page?

   Is there another method for testing if a page is a child? This one's driving me nuts.

2. doodlebee
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Crap. Nevermind. I'm uttery stupid. I wasn't paying attention and had placed the code *outside* of the Loop. Put it in, and it works fine.

3. Charity Ondriezek
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thank you SO much for taking a minute to follow up on your own post. You just ended 3 days of frustration as to why my child page navigation was not working properly. I posted about it on another thread here but like you, got no answer. :( Anyway just wanted to say thanks!

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