Title: Another get_pages() question
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Another get_pages() question

 *  Resolved [justinmaurerdotdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/360zen/)
 * (@360zen)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-get_pages-question/)
 * Okay, I’m back with one more question about getting child pages with get_pages().
 * What I’m attempting to do is look at the current page’s child pages, if it has
   a child page with a specific taxonomy term, show the child instead of the parent.
 * I’ve got this working almost 100% of the time, however, I just ran into a weird
   problem with the home page.
 * Here’s how I’ve got the pages set up
    - Home (set to Front Page)
 *  - Alt Home Page*
 *  - About Us
 *  - Mission
 *  - Alt Mission Page*
 *  - History
 *  - Alt History Page*
 * The get_pages code I’m using is this (you can see [the rest of the code here](https://gist.github.com/AbacusPowers/d11e199ea5069e8bf5cd)):
 *     ```
       $args = array(
       		'child_of' => $pid,
       		'hierarchical' => 0,
       	);
       $children = get_pages($args);
       ```
   
 * This setup is giving me exactly what I want on every page except for the home
   page. On the Mission page, I get the Alt Mission page (and other children of 
   Mission page) in a list, check for the taxonomy term, and then shows the one 
   with the taxonomy term (the Alt Mission page).
 * On the home page, I get a list of all pages **including the home page itself**(
   because apparently WordPress sees them all as children of the home page), so 
   when I search for the taxonomy term, it finds every page with this taxonomy term
   and then shows the content for (I’m assuming here) the last one it finds: the
   Alt History Page. If I add `'parent' => $pid`, only top level pages are returned.
 * So, my question is: How can I get only direct descendants of the Home page? Do
   I need to check is_front_page() and handle the Home page differently (provide
   a specific ID to use)?
 * Any help would be much appreciated.

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 *  [Johnathan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jelyman/)
 * (@jelyman)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-get_pages-question/#post-5836045)
 * Perhaps with the homepage it would be better to check `is_home_page()` and if
   so, `get_page_children()`.
 * just a thought.
 *  Thread Starter [justinmaurerdotdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/360zen/)
 * (@360zen)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-get_pages-question/#post-5836058)
 * Okay, I’ve solved it. I finally found [this ticket](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21790)
   where someone had the same problem. Ideally, you would is is_front_page() to 
   handle the home page separately, but is_front_page() doesn’t work with the pre_get_posts
   hook. Instead, we can use this to get around that conditional:
    `if ( $query-
   >get('page_id') == get_option('page_on_front') )`
 * So, my code ended up being this:
 *     ```
       if ( $query->is_main_query() && !is_admin() && is_page() ) {
       		if ($query->get('page_id') == get_option('page_on_front')){
       			$id = get_option('page_on_front');
       		} else {
       			$id = get_queried_object_id();
       		}
       		if( $sitechild = site_child($id) ) {
       			$query->query_vars['page_id'] = $sitechild;
       		}
       	}
       ```
   
 * Marking as resolved. Just wanted to leave this there in case anyone else is struggling
   with this like I was.

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