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  • #24754
    Knut
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    Hi

    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.

    #57010
    apostrophe
    Participant

    Why don’t you use wp_list_pages http://codex.wordpress.org/wp_list_pages

    #57131
    cjk
    Member

    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.

    Cheers!
    Chris
    http://www.krowchukdressage.com

    #57256
    freekrai
    Participant

    I ran into a similiar problem with one of my wordpress sites.

    I ended up using this code to display subpages:

    Code:
    post_parent != 0 ){
    // display subpages of my parent page
    ?>

    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.

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