How to hide child pages in submenu?

This is the parameter you’re looking for

depth (integer)
This parameter controls how many levels in the hierarchy of pages are to be included in the list generated by wp_list_pages. The default value is 0 (display all pages, including all sub-pages).

* 0 – Pages and sub-pages displayed in hierarchical (indented) form (Default).
* -1 – Pages in sub-pages displayed in flat (no indent) form.
* 1 – Show only top level Pages
* 2 – Value of 2 (or greater) specifies the depth (or level) to descend in displaying Pages.

Your code already sets the depth through a variable – you’ll have to figure out where $depth is getting defined in your theme and modify it. Alternatively, you can change the current code to read

$html = wp_list_pages("child_of=$parent_id&depth=1&echo=".(!$return)."&title_li=0&sort_column=menu_order");

and see what happens.

Hi Langsuyar

The code you supplied worked exactly as I’d hoped, hiding the child pages for subpages…except if hides the child pages when you click on anyone of those subpage links. In other words, it’s an ‘all or nothing’ global rule).

Any idea how I can make it more granular?

If not, whereabout is the code would be the best place to look for, or define, the $depth for a particular template?

Best wishes

H ??

That’s hard to remote-debug, your theme is doing some unconventional stuff there. Looks like you might be changing a global function that is used several times in the theme. You might want to keep that code the way it was originally, and look at the sidebar code in particular. I got a feeling that the theme passes in the $depth variable from wherever pages are listed. Find the sidebar .php code and see what’s happening there. If you have a decent editor, you can do a Find In Files and search for $depth to find all occurrences.

Thanks for the tips L.

I’ll give it a go and report back.

Best wishes.

H ??

OK. I’ve looked into things a bit further and think I realise what the real problem is.

As far as I can work out the theme is doing exactly what it should do in terms of defining the $depth for child pages. All of the various functions within the theme (ie: list subpages, etc) are contained within a functions.php file.

The problem I face is that I think I may not have defined the problem accurately.

My real problem is to not show secondary child pages on only certain top level parent pages.

I suppose the question I’m asking is: is it possible to write a one-off rule (be php or CSS) that I can incorporate into certain template pages to not show the secondary children pages? The idea is that, by using a separate template page, the secondary children would then be shown on any first-level child page that is viewed.

Hope that makes sense! lol

Again, any input appreciated.

H ??

And, in a moment of low wattage intelligence, I answered my own question!

The easiest solution is to use a CSS rule to hide the offending child pages.

To illustrate: in my original css the rule that contained the styling for the second-child links read:

#subpages ul.submenu li ul li a{ color: #7d6f61; background-color: #f4f2e2; text-transform: lowercase; text-align: right; margin-left: -1em; padding: 3px 5px 3px 3px; border-right: 4px solid #f90; border-left-width: 0; }

By changing the display property to none, the offending links vanished. The final rule simply reads:

#subpages ul.submenu li ul li a{ display: none; }

Voila!

File under ‘hiding in plain sight’!

Many thx to Langsuyar for the earlier help.

H ??

HardHat:

Maybe you can give me insight, since you seem to have figured out your situation.

I am using the following code to display sub-pages (we’ll call 1st level down) from top level link:

<?php
  if($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 } ?>

this is taken directly from the WP codex. And it works great, except when I click to a 2nd level sub-page (subpage of a subpage). At that point, all the 2nd level sub-pages show up in the menu.

I’ve tried using depth= syntax, but doesn’t work. What would I look for in my CSS to see if that can be hardcoded to remove the 2nd level sub-page menu?

Hi,

I have found $depth defined in:

/wp-includes/atomlib.php

and I changed line 73 to:

var $depth = 2;

but it has made no difference… what did i do wrong?

Thanks, Jon.

Here is an example:
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1'); ?>

you need to add/change the “depth” parameter/argument within the function and not inside any file.

hope this helps ??

knds

Hey langsuyar thanks for the post earlier

$html = wp_list_pages(“child_of=$parent_id&depth=1&echo=”.(!$return).”&title_li=0&sort_column=menu_order”);

and see what happens.

Worked perfect for my function

function themefunction_list_pages() {
add_filter(‘wp_list_pages’,’themefunction_alter_list_pages’);
wp_list_pages(“child_of=$parent_id&depth=1&echo=”.(!$return).”&title_li=0&sort_column=menu_order”);
remove_filter(‘wp_list_pages’,’themefunction_alter_list_pages’);