Comments on: List pages in wordpress into a PHP Array

By: Joost

Joost — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:16:57 +0000

Isn’t this what get_pages() is for?

$pages = get_pages(‘child_of’ => [[THE PARENT ID]], ‘sort_order’ => ‘ASC’);
foreach ($pages as $page) {
// Do your thang
}

By: Will Anderson

Will Anderson — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:21:37 +0000

Hi,
I too feel that the wp_list_pages function leaves something to be desired. I went about fixing it in another way though. the wp_list_pages function uses another function called get_pages which returns a list of page IDs. Using that, you can retrieve the post name and it’s URL. The place I found this useful was in an implementation of an expanding page list for a client. doing it with wp_list_pages would have been next to impossible, but using the get_pages function, it was almost trivial.

The reason I suggest using this over a database call is that the database call can easily be broken in a later release if the database schema changes. On the other hand, as long as the get_pages function remains consistent, a later version won’t break the code.

Anyway, those are just my ideas on maintainability. Using database calls will work, I just wouldn’t suggest it when there’s an alternative.

Will

By: Dyasonhat

Dyasonhat — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:48:51 +0000

Thanks, working great!

By: Thanxer

Thanxer — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:49:10 +0000

Thanks bud, You saved my Time.
I was Looking in wp_list_pages without result!

By: Pangeran

Pangeran — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:05:39 +0000

Oh?
Thanks anyway…
I just use non dynamic html for now…

By: Brendan Nee

Brendan Nee — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:38:08 +0000

I haven’t checked this with wordpress version 2.6 yet, let me know if you figure this out.

By: Pangeran

Pangeran — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:19:22 +0000

I’ve tried that(Removed AND $wpdb->posts.post_parent = [[Parent Page ID]] )
And I’ve tried to put page id inside like this [[1 2 2 34]]

Both not working…

I am using WordPress 2.6
And using OPTION theme by Justin Tadlock to intergrate this…

By: Brendan Nee

Brendan Nee — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:34:55 +0000

If you wanted to return a list including all published pages, just remove the section:

AND $wpdb->posts.post_parent = [[Parent Page ID]]

entirely.

By: Pangeran

Pangeran — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:40:13 +0000

Thanks for this code.

But how to remove the [[Parent Page ID]] .
I want all pages is listed.

I just want to add [b] before the [a]