get_parent_page ??

  • jpepper

    (@jpepper)


    21 years ago

    Sorry, but I can’t seem to find this answer. Is there any way to return the name of the current page’s parent?

    I use the following code to control the ‘active’ tabs in my navigation:

    if (is_page(‘products’)) echo ‘class=”active”‘

    I also have:
    products/cds
    products/dvds

    How can I get WP to return ‘products’ when I am on products/cds for example?

    Thank!

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  • ColdForged

    (@coldforged)

    21 years ago

    You could do something like the following:

    if( 0 != $post->post_parent ) {
    $post_name = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT post_name from $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post->post_parent");
    }

    Untested but should be about what you’d need.

    Thread Starter jpepper

    (@jpepper)

    21 years ago

    CF – Thanks for the quick response. I’ll give it a shot.

    Thread Starter jpepper

    (@jpepper)

    21 years ago

    CF- I couldn’t get the above to work. $post_name doesn’t return anything. Maybe I am using this wrong? I assumed that $post_name would return the parent??

    ColdForged

    (@coldforged)

    21 years ago

    Post the whole shebang to http://pastebin.com and give us a link?

    Thread Starter jpepper

    (@jpepper)

    21 years ago

    CF-Is this what you asked?

    http://pastebin.com/277596

    Thread Starter jpepper

    (@jpepper)

    21 years ago

    Is get_var a function?

    ColdForged

    (@coldforged)

    21 years ago

    Well, the biggest thing is that I was assuming that $post was defined at the time, like in a Loop. Are you going to be including this code in a template?

    Thread Starter jpepper

    (@jpepper)

    21 years ago

    I see. I got it to work in index.php. Thanks.

    http://pastebin.com/277606

    But I was hoping to use it within header.php because that is where I call my navigation.

    http://pastebin.com/277607

    ColdForged

    (@coldforged)

    21 years ago

    Try something like:
    if( is_page() ) {
    the_post();
    if( 0 != $post->post_parent ) {
    $post_name = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT post_name from $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post->post_parent");
    }
    }

    Thread Starter jpepper

    (@jpepper)

    21 years ago

    Perfect. Thanks so much CF!

    Doesn’t it seem like this should be built in?

    Maybe someone with more skills than me can craft a simple plugin. If so, would it make sense to return an array of all the parents up to the top/root to cover the situation of nested pages.

    Again thanks!

    Thread Starter jpepper

    (@jpepper)

    21 years ago

    Well almost perfect. It does successfully get the parent ID when used in the header, but it then messes up the page output generated from index.php. It looks like this fails: if (have_posts()) in index.php.

    ColdForged

    (@coldforged)

    21 years ago

    This is going to be the death of me. Following that processing, try putting a rewind_posts() call.

    Thread Starter jpepper

    (@jpepper)

    21 years ago

    Thanks for sticking with it CF. It worked!

    Plugin anyone?

    cynics

    (@cynics)

    20 years, 9 months ago

    Hi, is there a way to extend the code above to grab the permalink to the parent page?

    Thread Starter jpepper

    (@jpepper)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    Could you just add the following…

    get_permalink($post->post_parent);

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