display page parent on page with title

will this work?
is there an easier way?

<?php
if($post->post_child)
$parent = wp_list_pages("title_li=&parent_of=".$post->post_child."&echo=0"); else
$parent = wp_list_pages("title_li=&parent_of=".$post->ID."&echo=0");
if ($parent) { ?>

<?php echo $parent; ?>

<?php } ?>

$post->post_parent will give you the ID of the parent page ??

if you want to keep checking further back, you can pull the parent page and find out what it’s parent is….

$parent = get_page($post->post_parent);
$grandparent = $parent->post_parent;

just thought – is there simply a crumb tag?

there isn’t but there are a couple of breadcrumb plugins.

you’re welcome by the way.

ivovic – would the code you posted a few weeks ago be adaptable?

<div id="breadcrumbs">
<a href="<?php echo get_bloginfo('url'); ?>" title="">Home</a>
<?php
  $breadcrumbs = explode('|',get_category_parents($cat,true,'|'));
  array_pop($breadcrumbs);
  array_pop($breadcrumbs);
  if ($breadcrumbs) foreach ($breadcrumbs as $crumb) echo ' / '.$crumb;
?>
</div>
<h1><?php single_cat_title(); ?></h1>

that’s for category pages… you would use that only on category archive templates.

this is what I use for breadcrumbs on my page.php and other page templates.

<div id="breadcrumbs">
  <a href="<?php echo get_bloginfo('url'); ?>" title="">Home</a>
  <?php
    $parent_id  = $post->post_parent;
    $breadcrumbs = array();
    while ($parent_id) {
      $page = get_page($parent_id);
      $breadcrumbs[] = '<a href="'.get_permalink($page->ID).'" title="">'.get_the_title($page->ID).'</a>';
      $parent_id  = $page->post_parent;
    }
    $breadcrumbs = array_reverse($breadcrumbs);
    foreach ($breadcrumbs as $crumb) echo ' / '.$crumb;
  ?>
</div>
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

since I’m posting all my code here, and you’re cutting and pasting, don’t you think it would just be easier to use a breadcrumb plugin? ??

thanks – i’ll try this. i wouldn’t learn anything using a plugin.

thanks Ivovic – i tried that code – will have to change it a bit – but that’s the tag i was looking for. shame the codex is so difficult to navigate.

yeah, there’s no way I could have found that stuff in there ??

Great to have found this today! I’m super novice at PHP, but got this working, only I was wondering how it can be changed to display top level parent pages (so only one page parent title would appear – even if you are at sub sub levels of pages)

Thanks!

Awesome, thank you ivovic, can’t believe this isn’t posted in a more public place. A may soon combine your hierarchicial script here with ForTheLose’s breadcrumbs