Child page / parent page visibility feature / bug

  • Alex Furr

    (@alexfurr)


    11 years ago

    We are having the following problem with our wordpress install.

    The process:
    1. A parent page is created
    2. Child pages added to this parent page.
    3. The parent page is then set to either ‘Private / draft or scheduled’
    4. The child pages lose their parent

    Why is this a problem?
    When a parent status is changed from published to anything else, ALL child pages suddenly start appearing in the main menu of dynamic menus using wp_nav_menu(). This affects ALL themes.

    Why are we doing this?
    We want to add a LOT of time-released material so ideally have the parent page hidden from the main menu until X date.

    The only work around we have seems to be setting ALL child pages to ‘scheduled’ as well which is incredibly laborious.

    Basically, this is bad UI design / logic in my opinion. i.e. setting a parent page to anything other than ‘Published’ causes all child pages to lose their ‘parent’ ID. No logical person would deliberately design a system like that.
    Is there a work around? Anyone else noticed that problem.

    Thanks for reading and any help would be appreciated.

    Alex Furr, University of Southampton

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