• Good work with your widget. In my case, I needed to display the parent page under some cirumstances, so I made a quick enhancement:

    <?php
    /*
        Plugin Name: Child Page Navigation
        Plugin URI: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/child-page-navigation/
        Description: Provides a theme-independent widget to display the child pages of the current page.
        Author: ITS Alaska
        Author URI: https://ITSCanFixThat.com/
        Version: 1.2.1
    
        This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
        it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
        the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
        (at your option) any later version.
    
        This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
        but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
        MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
        GNU General Public License for more details.
    
        You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
        along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
    */
    
        class theme_navigation extends WP_Widget {
            function theme_navigation() {
                parent::WP_Widget('theme_navigation', 'Child Page Navigation', array('description' => '', 'class' => 'theme-navigation'));
            }
            function form($instance) {
                $default =     array( 'title' => __('Navigation'), 'show_parent' => 0 );
                $instance = wp_parse_args( (array) $instance, $default );
                $field_id = $this->get_field_id('title');
                $field_name = $this->get_field_name('title');
                echo "\r\n".'<p><label for="'.$field_id.'">'.__('Title').': <input type="text" class="widefat" id="'.$field_id.'" name="'.$field_name.'" value="'.attribute_escape( $instance['title'] ).'" /><label></p>';
    			echo "\r\n".'<p><input class="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="1" ';
    			checked( $instance['show_parent'], 1 );
    			echo ' id="'.$this->get_field_id( 'show_parent' ).'" name="'.$this->get_field_name( 'show_parent' ).'" />
    			<label for="'.$this->get_field_id( 'show_parent' ).'">Show parent page?</label></p>';
                $field_id = $this->get_field_id('page');
            }
            function update($new_instance, $old_instance) {
                $instance = $old_instance;
                $instance['title'] = strip_tags($new_instance['title']);
    			$instance['show_parent'] = $new_instance['show_parent'];
                return $instance;
            }
            function widget($args, $instance) {
                extract($args, EXTR_SKIP);
                global $post;
                $pages = get_pages(array(
                    'child_of' => $post->ID,
                    'parent' => $post->ID,
                    'sort_column' => 'menu_order'
                ));
    
    			// Chek if Parent should be displayed
    			$show_parent = isset( $instance['show_parent'] ) ? $instance['show_parent'] : false;
    
                // Check if the current page has a parent
                if ($post -> post_parent) {
                    // Get sibling pages
                    $siblings = get_pages(array(
                        'child_of' => $post -> post_parent,
                        'parent' => $post -> post_parent,
                        'sort_column' => 'menu_order'
                    ));
                }
    
                if(count($pages)){
                    echo $before_widget;
                    $title = empty($instance['title']) ? '' : apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title']);
                    if ( !empty( $title ) ) { echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; }
                    echo "<ul>";
    				if ( $show_parent  == 1){
    					echo "<li><a href='".get_permalink($page->post_parent)."'>".get_the_title($page->post_parent)."</a></li>";
    				}
                    foreach($pages as $page){
                        echo "<li><a href='".get_permalink($page->ID)."'>".get_the_title($page->ID)."</a></li>";
                    }
                    echo "</ul>";
                    echo $after_widget;
                }elseif($post -> post_parent) { // Show the sibling pages if there are no children
                    if(count($siblings)) {
                        echo $before_widget;
                        $title = empty($instance['title']) ? '' : apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title']);
                        if ( !empty( $title ) ) { echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; }
                        echo "<ul>";
    					if ( $show_parent == 1){
    						echo "<li><a href='".get_permalink($post -> post_parent)."'>".get_the_title($post -> post_parent)."</a></li>";
    					}
                        foreach($siblings as $page){
                            echo "<li><a href='".get_permalink($page->ID)."'>".get_the_title($page->ID)."</a></li>";
                        }
                        echo "</ul>";
                        echo $after_widget;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        function register_theme_navigation_widget(){
            register_widget('theme_navigation');
        }
        add_action('widgets_init','register_theme_navigation_widget');
    
    ?>

    Just in case someone could make use of this.

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  • Great addition. Thanks a lot.
    I just wondering is it possible that instead plugin title (e.g. Navigation) be name of that main page.
    Thanks in advance.

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