I'm trying to make my custom sidebar.php file for wordpress aware of what page it is beeing loaded on. You see, I want to add "sub links" when you click a category link so to speak. At this time the sidebar is made with normal links like this:
I might be misunderstanding your question, it sounds like a job for Conditional statements, however....
You can easily manage this with widgets!
I use flexipages to set the parent / child links, you can have multiple instances of flexipage if you have more than one set of subpages. Then I use TS custom Widgets to control which widgets appear on which pages / posts / categories / archives etc. using conditional statements.
For me this was great because it eliminated the need to create custom templates calling custom sidebars etc. I found that to get messy in a hurry and difficult to manage changes.
I ran into a similiar problem with one of my wordpress sites.
I ended up using this code to display subpages:
<? if (!is_category() && !is_archive() ) { if( $post->post_parent != 0 ){ // display subpages of my parent page ?> <div class=\"widget\"><h3><span><a href=\"<?php echo get_permalink($post->post_parent) ?>\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to <?php echo get_the_title($post->post_parent); ?>\"><?php echo get_the_title($post->post_parent); ?></a></span></h3> <ul> <? $children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&echo=0&child_of=' . $post->post_parent); if ($children) echo $children; ?> </ul> </div> <? }else{ // display subpages of myself ?> <div class=\"widget\"><h3><span><a href=\"<?php echo get_permalink($post->ID) ?>\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to <?php echo get_the_title($post->ID); ?>\"><?php echo get_the_title($post->ID); ?></a></span></h3> <ul> <? $children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&echo=0&child_of=' . $post->ID); if ($children) echo $children; ?> </ul> </div> <? } } ?>
And it works well, if the page is a subpage, or has subpages then they get displayed. This can be changed how ever someone else wants to use it. But it's worked well on a couple of wordpress sites now.
I'm trying to make my custom sidebar.php file for wordpress aware of what page it is beeing loaded on. You see, I want to add "sub links" when you click a category link so to speak. At this time the sidebar is made with normal links like this:
Anyone know an easy way to do this?
Knut.
You can easily manage this with widgets!
I use flexipages to set the parent / child links, you can have multiple instances of flexipage if you have more than one set of subpages. Then I use TS custom Widgets to control which widgets appear on which pages / posts / categories / archives etc. using conditional statements.
For me this was great because it eliminated the need to create custom templates calling custom sidebars etc. I found that to get messy in a hurry and difficult to manage changes.
Cheers!
Chris
http://www.krowchukdressage.com
I ended up using this code to display subpages:
And it works well, if the page is a subpage, or has subpages then they get displayed. This can be changed how ever someone else wants to use it. But it's worked well on a couple of wordpress sites now.