If you use pages and subpages on your blog, it can be a good idea to use your sidebar to create a menu of subpages. If you’d like to try, the following code is what you need!
In order to achieve this recipe, place the following code on your sidebar.php file.
<?php
$children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID.'&echo=0');
if ($children) { ?>
<ul>
<?php echo $children; ?>
</ul>
<?php } ?>
The above code executes the wp_list_pages function, with the echo=0 parameter, which allow us to get the result of the function without displaying it. Then, we test if the $children variable isn't empty, and we display our children pages.
Credit goes to Kyle Eslick and his awesome blog wphacks.com for this excellent recipe!
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Hi Jean,
thanks for recipe..
is it possible to show your recipes’ demos or screenshots in a specific page or here?
so let us know what we will see before applying code..
Cheers~
I’d love to upload exemples for my recipes, but sadly it will probably take too much time and I got 2 other blogs, so if I want to continue to publish one recipe per day, I don’t think I’ll be able to do this
ok,you r right Jean,
i prefer one recipe per day:)
take it easy
cheers~
Thats called remix recipe.
Bcoz we are reconstructing our blog using these subpages links
yeah right maintaining many blogs is consuming time …
once again, add some screenshot brother
byme
Trues why dont you put some pictures???
@byme & Evan: As I said, I don’t have enought time to upload exemple or screenshots of recipes, unless it is necessary.
However, I keep your suggestion in mind, maybe I’ll do that later
The if statement’s not really that necessary - if no subpages exist, you’ll just have an empty unordered list. But I suppose it is a bit cleaner.
Thanks for this code, it works great and is self explanatory. Why is a screenshot needed?
Question: Would it be possible to have WP sidebar always display all subpages, regardless of the main page?
I agree about adding some picture and make us see how it looks when we implement this code.
This is a nice simple solution - one thing I noticed is that if the child page has subpages they display also.
I wonder if it’s possible to limit it to immediate children only?
I’ve added the code to my Sidebar.php and It doesn’t return anything. I see nothing on my page.
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