sidebar lists categories pagebound

  • Please look at https://www.customizen.nl, then click ‘over ons’ in the top menu

    And look at https://www.risermedia.com and click ‘about’ in the top menu.

    The first is my own, the second is what I want to achieve. What I want, is to make pages that have the parent ‘over ons’, and let the links to these pages appear in the sidebar. But how do I do that? Because I am not good with wordpress or php, if anyone knows the answer, please explain this very easily.

    To sum up: I have a site with, say, 6 pages now. When you navigate to a page, in the top menu, you should go there, and see a content left part, and a sidebar which lists subpages. What is the code to get those subpages??

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  • The code to do this is wp_list_pages(); which you will need to copy and paste in to your sidebar. The pages will display as a list. Only pages underneath 2 (which is your about page) will be displayed.

    The exact code you need is:

    <?php
  if($post->post_parent) // this is a subpage so link to the parent
  $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&amp;child_of=".$post->post_parent."&amp;echo=0");
  else // this is the top page so link to the children, if they exist
  $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&amp;child_of=".$post->ID."&amp;echo=0");
  if ($children) { ?>
  <ul>
  <?php echo $children; ?>
  </ul>
<?php }; ?>

    NB. Wherever you see &amp; you need to change it to &amp;

    Read this for more help with the function wp_list_pages() or reply.

    Thread Starter dekraan

    (@dekraan)

    Hello there, bsutcliffe, I used: 

    <?php
  if($post->post_parent)
  $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&amp;child_of=".$post->post_parent."&amp;echo=0");
  else
  $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&amp;child_of=".$post->ID."&amp;echo=0");
  if ($children) { ?>
  <ul>
  <?php echo $children; ?>
  </ul>
  <?php } ?>

    This is the same as yours? I found it (luckily) in the supportfiles. It works great! But there is one problem: now the headermenu is screwed up! My menu looks like the following, I think (I didn’t make it myself): 

    <div id="header">

<div id="top">

<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><h1><span><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></span></h1></a>

<ul id="menu">
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=' ); ?>
<li><a href="<?php echo get_category_link($blog_category_page); ?>">Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Home</a></li>
</ul>

<br class="clear" />

</div>

    How can I get subcategories to stay out of this menu? Now the lay-out (as you can see at www customizen . nl – the page ‘over ons’ has a subpage called ‘Hello’) is screwed!

    I hope you can help with this!

    Replace

    <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=' ); ?>

    with

    <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&amp;depth=1' ); ?>

    This will allow only top level pages to display. Let me know how you get on.

    Thread Starter dekraan

    (@dekraan)

    bsutcliffe, it works great! The problem is gone. I just have one more question. Is there a way to add the parent_page in the sidebar menu? It should also be clickable, so when you are on a childpage, you should be able to get back to the parentpage through the sidebar-menu!

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