Displaying child pages using wp_list_pages and php

I lied, The Example Page Hierarchy is this:

• Our People

• Partners

• Michael McConnell

• Areas of Practice
• Education
• Awards
• Etc

I should also mention that I’ve read the wp_list_pages codex page and tried to work with the examples to no avail. If the answer is there I missed it due to a low understanding of php and not for a lack of effort, haha.

Quick bump in case anyone has time to reply today.

Seem this example is what you want:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages#List_subpages_even_if_on_a_subpage

I thought so too but that doesn’t work because it displays the sub pages of the parent. Because of the page hierarchy, the pages are both parents, so you get a top level menu when looking at a person’s profile. When you click on the sub, sub menu items, the correct information is displayed but if you are on the top level profile page for someone, it’s sub pages are displayed.

Wow that made absolutely no sense.

Both of the pages are CHILDREN is what I meant, so they display the information of their parent.

I think I need to test for something other than post_parent.

I could do something like:

<?php
  if($post->is_page('42,23,44,11'))
  $children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID.'&echo=0');
  if ($children) { ?>
  <ul>
  <?php echo $children; ?>
  </ul>
 <?php } ?

But I’d like to keep things dynamic so if they have to add a page later they won’t have to have us do it for them. Am I on the wrong track?

Using that example I pointed at–could you do something like…

$partner_id = 45; // or whatever
if($post->post_parent && $post->parent != $partner_id)

MichaelH,

First off, thank you for your help. Unfortunately the output on the partner profile pages is the same as the example code from that you linked to. It’s possible I’ve made a mistake, so here’s the code I’m using:

<?php
$partner_id = 26; // "partner" page id = 26
if($post->post_parent && $post->parent != $partner_id)
  $children = wp_list_pages("&title_li=&child_of=".$post->post_parent."&echo=0");
  else
  $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->ID."&echo=0");
  if ($children) { ?>
  <ul>
  <?php echo $children; ?>
  </ul>
<?php } ?>

And here are example pages: Cindy’s top level profile page Cindy’s admissions page.

These are great tips and I think might actually help with the problem I posted earlier about almost the same thing – except I am trying to list parent and children of the category in the sidebar on archive.php. I’ll try these out and see if it helps me as well.

ibu – okay not sure this is exactly it…

<?php
$depth = 1;
$node = (int) $post->ID;
$depth = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (SELECT ID, @r := (SELECT post_parent FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = @r AND ID <> 0) AS _parent FROM (SELECT @r := $node) vars, $wpdb->posts WHERE @r IS NOT NULL) q WHERE _parent IS NOT NULL");
  if ($depth == 4 && $post->post_parent)
  $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->post_parent."&echo=0");
  else
  $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->ID."&echo=0");

  if ($children) { ?>
  <ul>
  <?php echo $children; ?>
  </ul>
  <?php } ?>

Haha Michael I stumbled upon a solution as soon as you posted yours! I’m going to test yours as well to see if we both are viable solutions in case someone else can benefit.

MichaelH yours works swimmingly.

Here is the fix I came up with based on this post:

<?php global $post; $thispage = $post->ID; // grabs the current post id from global and then assigns it to thispage ?>
        <?php $pagekids = get_pages("child_of=".$thispage."&sort_column=menu_order"); // gets a list of page that are sub pages of the current page and assigns then to pagekids ?>
        <?php if ($pagekids) { // if there are any values stored in pagekids and therefore the current page has subpages ?>
        	<ul>
        		<?php wp_list_pages("depth=1&title_li=&sort_column=menu_order&child_of=".$thispage); // display the sub pages of the current page only ?>
            </ul>
        <?php } else { // if there are no sub pages for the current page ?>
        	<ul>
        		<?php echo wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of='.$post->post_parent.'&echo=0'); ?>
            </ul>

        <?php } ?>

Thank you so much for your help MichaelH. I hope our discourse here can help other people in the future.

Thank YOU ibu for posting your findings. Insurmountably helpful.