ArielZusya

update: At least on the topic of limiting administrative page views to only certain pages, there is a plugin for that. Pages Children by Paul Menard only shows the current generation and adds a link to each page in the currently displayed generation to their offspring. Genius! Thanks, Paul!

Perfect! You rock! Thanks for the help!

I think I’ve got a solution. I used a plugin called shortcode exec php. Serves my purpose perfectly. Thanks so much for your help!

Thanks so much for your response. I think that gets me started. It does the math for me, which is fantastic!

This next question may be even more mundane than the last, so please bare with me. Ultimately, I’d like to embed the result in the middle of a static post. In other words, in the middle of the post there will be something like, “we now have X subtopics from which to learn all about the main topic in greater detail.” I assume I’ll need to put the counting code in a function and then call the function somehow… or is this where custom fields come in to play? I’ve never used them before. Or perhaps there is some other way of which I am unaware to accomplish this goal. Thoughts? Thanks so much!

I figured it out. see https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/return-list-of-children

I was able to solve my issue… I just wrapped the wp_list_pages in a div that stripped off the list bullet. The div tag looks like this:
<div style="list-style:none;line-height: 2em;">

Incidentally, I’ve also tried using:


<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of=306&depth=1'); ?>

but I don’t want the list to show up as a list (using <li> tags). I just want the links. If there’s a way to use wp_lists_pages and get what I’m looking for, I’d be happy with that as well. Thanks!

Ahh… I hadn’t thought about going that route. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for your help!

Wow… Excellent. Thanks! That helped a lot. I think I’ve got most of it working now. I haven’t had a chance to address the validation errors. I’ll get to that at some point soon. Thanks again!

Wow… you’re right… that is messed up. I think it’s all fixed now. Thanks for your help! Funny how forgiving internet explorer is on that sort of stuff.

That did the trick. Thanks for your help!

Thanks. Thought it isn’t exactly what I was looking for it is a huge improvements. Thanks so much for your help!

lauch: all the the opening and closing seem to work… recall… this only happens on one computer

Yosemite: it is, but I think other computers behind the same FW are working. In case they aren’t, what were you thinking? Is there some change I should make on the FW? Thanks!

It seems that I’m able to view the comments from other computers when I log in as admin… would this be as simple as deleting my temp files? I’ll experiment this evening. Sad to see that there hasn’t been a single reply to my original question.

Found my answer in https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/53261/page/2?replies=65

It seems I wasn’t searching using the right phrase. Hope this helps anyone who is having the same problem (with their blog or with searching for the answer).