remove li from wp_list_pages

wp_list_pages() does not provide a way to turn off the list tags (not without editing WP’s source), but there is a parameter we can use to work around this: echo. Switching this off (i.e. setting to 0) will allow us to assign the output to a variable we can ‘clean’ the list tags from before displaying your Page links.

Try this:

<?php
$pages = wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&exclude=79&title_li=&echo=0');
$pages = str_replace(array('<li class="page_item">', '</li>'), '', $pages);
echo $pages;
?>

And the one line (but more difficult to read) version:

<?php echo str_replace(array('<li class="page_item">', '</li>'), '', wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&exclude=79&title_li=&echo=0')); ?>


Hi Kafkaesqui

It works … but not perfect. The thing I am getting now is:

Page 01 Page 02
Page 03 Page 04

Instead of

Page 01
Page 02
Page 03
Page 04

Is there anyway to break it?

Thx

Niel

<?php
$pages = wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&exclude=79&title_li=&echo=0');
$pages = str_replace('<li class="page_item">', '', $pages);
$pages = str_replace('</li>', '<br />', $pages);
echo $pages;
?>

This will replace the closing </li> tags with break tags.

I’ve been staring at you code and came up with the following:

<?php $pages = wp_list_pages(‘sort_column=menu_order&exclude=79&title_li=&echo=0’);
$pages = str_replace(‘<li class=”page_item”>’, ”, $pages);
$pages = str_replace(”,'<br>’, $pages); echo $pages; ?>

I placed a <br> on the last line to brake it and it works good. But now once I select a page and the page is loaded the page text in the sidebar jumps in, like:

Pages
page 01
page 02
page 03
etc.

were page 01 is the selected page. I’ve been looking through my css if the error is in ther but if I look at the code I see this:

<li class=”page_item current_page_item”>Intro<br>

So the <li … is making it jump in. I’ve been playing arround with the code you gave me but I gave me know answer.

As you have noticed, I love wordpress … but php is not my thing. I really appreciate you help on this!!

THX!!

Niel

“I’ve been staring at you code “

Yeah, I got hit by an annoying element of the forum software, where editing a post here can whack HTML tags. I edited the code above to clear things up (i.e. put that break tag back in).

“But now once I select a page“

Real world testing… The following mod to the code above will take care of this:

<?php
$pages = wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&exclude=79&title_li=&echo=0');
$pages = preg_replace('%<li class=".*">|</?ul>%U', '', $pages);
$pages = str_replace('</li>', '<br />', $pages);
echo $pages;
?>

The second $pages line now performs a regular expression match on <li class="ANYTHING">, <ul> and </ul>, and replaces them all with ” (that is, an empty value).

Thx it all works great!!

Niel

It’s extraordinary how the the community empoyer each of us!
Thanks to that thread, I resolved an issue that seemed to me very complicated before.
Hope that I contribute one day with such valuable advice.
Thanks again.