messycoda

I modified the following part of the code to get the pages to come up randomly, and set the number of pages to show up:

$args=array('child_of' => $parent, 'number' => 19); $pages = get_pages($args); shuffle($pages);

The no. of pages output is rather weird though. If I put 12, I get 6. I put 19 as the number and I get 12 which is the number of pages I need. Weird!

There is a workaround: make the multiple parents children of one parent if they’re not already, then use that parent to list just the grandchildren, almost like a ‘post_grandparent’.

Found this code elsewhere on the support forums, seems to work for me:

<?php
echo 'get pages';
$parent = 93;
$args=array(
  'child_of' => $parent
);
$pages = get_pages($args);
if ($pages) {
  foreach($pages as $post) {
    setup_postdata($post);
    if ($post->post_parent != $parent ) { ?>
      <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
      <?php
    }
  } // foreach($pages
} // if ($pages
?>

I would also like to know if there is any way of doing multiple post_parent, or any kind of work around. It would be darn useful!

Anyone?