How to use a loop to show parent/child elements in sidebar

  • brendan

    (@brendananimates)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    Sorry, this was hard to word in the title. I current have a site that has a sidebar that shows all the child elements of that section youre in, as well as the title of the parent above all the child elements.

    The one problem is that when youre on the parent page, the parents title doesn’t show. This causes it to look inconsistent and kind of jump around

    For example: https://developerweek.com/conference/
    and then: https://developerweek.com/conference/conference-speakers/

    For this example, I’d like for “// Conference” to remain at the top of both pages

    Here’s the code I’m using:

    <ul>
<?php if($post->post_parent) {
  $parent_link = get_permalink($post->post_parent); ?>
  <a href="<?php echo $parent_link; ?>"><div class="parentz">
    // <?php
echo empty( $post->post_parent ) ? get_the_title( $post->ID ) : get_the_title( $post->post_parent );
?>
  </div></a><?php } ?>
<?php
  if($post->post_parent)
  $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->post_parent."&echo=0");
  else
  $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->ID."&echo=0");
  if ($children) { ?>
  <ul>
  <?php echo $children; ?>
  </ul>
  <?php } ?>
</ul>

    Help me esmi or someone!

    [Moderator Note: No bumping. If it’s so urgent that you cannot possibly wait ore than 1 hour, consider hiring someone.]

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  • I can’t be sure, but I think this will work. Try replacing this:

    <?php if($post->post_parent) {
  $parent_link = get_permalink($post->post_parent); ?>
  <a href="<?php echo $parent_link; ?>"><div class="parentz">
    // <?php
echo empty( $post->post_parent ) ? get_the_title( $post->ID ) : get_the_title( $post->post_parent );
?>
  </div></a><?php } ?>

    with this:

    <?php if($post->post_parent) {
  $parent_link = get_permalink($post->post_parent);
} else {
   $parent_link = get_permalink($post->ID);
} ?>
<a href="<?php echo $parent_link; ?>"><div class="parentz"></div></a>
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