Link to parent Page?

Not possible?
Wrong forum?
Thanks :o)

A bit late, I know, but you could try adding something along the lines of:

<?php if($post->post_parent) {
	$parent_link = get_permalink($post->post_parent); ?>
<a href="<?php echo $parent_link; ?>">Link to parent page</a>
<?php } ?>

to your template file.

That was just the solution I was looking for. Thank you flashaaron!

Thanks flash! You did a good thing to post the solution in a google-able topic. ??

So extremely useful flashaaron!

Use in combination with information from this page:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/160732?replies=5

Replace “Link to parent page” in the above code with the code below to specifically call whatever the parent’s name is:

<?php
$parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
echo $parent_title;
?>

Thanks flashaaron!

I was creating all the other sub-page navigation links manually in a list since i’m not great with wordpress loops yet. Then I ran into problems linking back to the parent page, because it would have double the permalink e.g. creatine_guide/creatine_guide :p

Thanks very much for the bit of wordpress code, saved me hours of searching.

For the benefit of other users…. I stumbled upon a small problem with the earlier code. On the child pages, the parent page link appears. However, on the parent page itself, it’s not there!

I finally worked it out by repeating the echo parent link part:

<?php if($post->post_parent) {
	$parent_link = get_permalink($post->post_parent); ?>
<a href="<?php echo $parent_link; ?>">Main</a>
<?php  }
else { ?> <a href="<?php echo $parent_link; ?>">Main</a>
<?php }
?>

At least it worked for my system, where I only had 1 parent page. Hope this is useful for others ??

Flash is the man.

I just added to this code so it grabs the parent page’s title and dynamically changes the link per page.

<?php if($post->post_parent) {
     $parent = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT post_title FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post->post_parent");
     $parent_link = get_permalink($post->post_parent); ?>
     <a href="<?php echo $parent_link; ?>">Back to <?php echo $parent->post_title; ?></a>
<?php } ?>

Nice!

This may be off topic, but if you’re hoping to use this display a breadcrumb type list – this post is very helpful in doing so:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/179226?replies=13

Also, here is some available codes for $post:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/168285