child nav on parent page (which is blog)

  • Have sub nav within my header.php file as such:

    [code moderated - use the pastebin for any code over the forum limit of 10 lines]

    this works perfect - except ONE thing.

    I have by Posts to be on a page named "Events" and this Page is a Child of the Main Navigations "About"

    Well, this "Events Page" does show in the sub-nav when "about" is clicked, and following that link does show that page with the Posts —?but once you are ON that page, the sub-nav no longer displays... even though the index.php is pulling the EXACT same header.php file.

    I'm guessing this has something to do with this Page now being seen as a Blog... Help? Anyone?

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  • So it is seeing the “Events” Page as a blog?

    It might help to know which conditional is getting hit in your initial if/else. Just add some test echo statements:

    if ($post->post_parent) {
	//get the parrent and see if it'a a top page (has no parent)
	$parent = get_page($post->post_parent);
	if ($parent->post_parent) {
                 echo "A"; /* Testing */
		//if it's not a top page, then his parent should be
		$children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of=' . $parent->post_parent . '&echo=0');
	} else {
                 echo "B"; /* Testing */
		$children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of=' . $post->post_parent . '&echo=0');
	}
} else {
        echo "C"; /* Testing */
	$children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of=' . $post->ID . '&echo=0');
}

    Might also help to echo the $post->ID to see if you’re viewing the ID of the Events page, or something else.

    Also, I’m not sure about this part of your code (in two places):

    <li><a>">

    What is the quotation mark for?

    Thread Starter cmdshiftdesign

    (@cmdshiftdesign)

    we’re getting the C back.

    Okay, so can you just manually set the $post->ID in the wp_list_pages function (in the section that echoed “C”) to be that of the About Page? Does that work?

    I’m guessing Events is returning a blog post for $post->ID and not the Events Page ID. Hard to know for sure without knowing what your Events Page template is.

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