Listing pages in a certain order

  • I’m trying to show child-pages in a certain order, in a list.

    This is my code to output the pages as a list

    $parent = $wp_query->post->ID;
		if(wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=$parent&echo=0" )) {
			wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=$parent&echo=1" );
}

    Now I want to show the first four of the pages in a particular order

    -Summary
-Info
-Groups
-Entries
-Other Page
-Another Page

    In other words, Summary, Info, Groups, Entries should be shown in that order (providing they exist), and other pages below. How would I achieve that?

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  • This should do it:

    $titles_to_match = array('Summary','Info','Groups','Entries');
$titles_regex = '/' . implode('|',$titles_to_match) . '/';
$pagelist = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=$parent&echo=0");
$pagearray = explode('<li ',$pagelist);
$junk = array_shift($pagearray); // First entry is empty
for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($pagearray);++$i) {
  if (preg_match($titles_regex,$pagearray[$i],$matches)) {
    $special[$matches[0]] = '<li ' . $pagearray[$i];
  } else {
    $newarray[] = $pagearray[$i];
  }
}
foreach($titles_to_match as $title) {
  $newlist .= $special[$title];
}
$newlist .= '<li ' . implode('<li ',$newarray);
echo $newlist;

    Thread Starter cannyboy

    (@cannyboy)

    Thanks. That spits out the menus, but not in the order required. I used a couple of echo statements to try and work out what is going on and the output is:

    pregmatch else else
Entries
Groups & Guides
Info & Misc

    Here’s the code I used

    $parent = $wp_query->post->ID;

$titles_to_match = array("Info & Misc","Groups & Guides","Entries");
$titles_regex = '/' . implode('|',$titles_to_match) . '/';
$pagelist = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=$parent&echo=0");
$pagearray = explode('<li ',$pagelist);
$junk = array_shift($pagearray); // First entry is empty
for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($pagearray);++$i) {
  if (preg_match($titles_regex,$pagearray[$i],$matches)) {
  echo "pregmatch ";
    $special[$matches[0]] = '<li ' . $pagearray[$i];
  } else {
   echo "else ";
    $newarray[] = $pagearray[$i];
  }
}
foreach($titles_to_match as $title) {
  $newlist .= $special[$title];
}
$newlist .= '<li ' . implode('<li ',$newarray);
echo $newlist;

    Well, you didn’t give the real titles in your example, so the regex is not correct. Ampersands and other characters have a special meaning in html and are encoded when used in a title. They must be encoded before used in the regex. I think this will handle all of the special characters, but no guarantees – best to avoid them in titles.

    $titles_to_match = array("Info & Misc","Groups & Guides","Entries");
for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($titles_to_match);++$i) {
  $titles_to_match[$i] = htmlspecialchars($titles_to_match[$i]);
}
$titles_regex = '/' . implode('|',$titles_to_match) . '/';
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