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slgworks

Hello Everyone,

I am new to wordpress theme design and php, so please excuse me if this is rudimentary.
I am trying to setup a wordpress site that has a video archive page similar to the one on CSS-Tricks.
I have individual video pages created as a sub-page of the video archive page.
On the video archive page I have the individual video pages linked to dynamically using..

<?php
  				$children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID.'&echo=0');
  				if ($children) { ?>
 				 <ul id=\"video-nav\">
 				 	<?php echo $children; ?>
 				 </ul>
 			 <?php } ?>

Also on the individual video pages, I have a custom field setup called "thumb" that I place the URL of the post thumbnail in.
I would like to access the custom field info from the parent video page and have the image display in the list item of the dynamically generated links.

In other words I would like to dynamically load all the images from the sub-page custom field on parent page.

I hope that this makes sense.

Any help is much appreciated.

AshtonSanders

Hi,

As far as I know, you can only echo the meta data from inside "the_loop"

This page has more info about Meta Data http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields

chriscoyier

Yeah that sounds about right. Perhaps you should do a well-executed query_posts() to get those child pages, so then you are inside the loop and have access to the page titles AND can grab that image that is a custom field.

davesgonebananas

If you only need a flat list of posts under the current page then simply using query_posts with a loop would be your best option. The only problem is if you have hierarchical pages, which would require nested lists, as that is a little more complicated to acheive and it is this that most of the magic inside wp_list_pages is dedicated to.

I think you could use the following (untested) code as a starting point:

query_posts(\"post_type=page&post_status=publish&post_parent=$post->ID&orderby=title&order=asc&showposts=-1\");
if (have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); 

echo '<li>' . '<img src=\"' . get_post_meta($post->ID, 'thumb', true) . '\" />' . <a href=\"' . get_page_link($post->ID) . '\" title=\"' . attribute_escape(apply_filters('the_title', $post->post_title)) . '\">' . '</li>';

endwhile; endif;

juliaxyz

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davesgonebananas

It's all done with smoke and mirrors.

AshtonSanders

for some reason, I always subconsciously add "bananas" to the first line of every one of your posts...

It's all done with smoke, bananas and mirrors.

oh.... wait a minute... :lol:

davesgonebananas

smokey bananas... mmm delicious

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