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List Current Parent and Child Pages in WordPress

CoryMathews — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:19:16 +0000

Recently in WordPress I needed to create a navigation that would display a page’s parent page and all of that pages children, I am a bit rusty with PHP but here is what I got to work.


post_parent == 0) {
    $pageLinkID = $post->ID;
    $title = $post->post_title;
  } else {
    $pageLinkID = $post->post_parent;
    $title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
  }
  echo ''.$title.'';
  $pages = get_pages('child_of='.$pageLinkID);
  foreach ($pages as $p) {
    echo ''.$p->post_title.'';
  }
?>

If you need to order the posts by the order value change the

$pages =

Line to

$pages = get_pages('child_of='.$pageLinkID.', 'sort_column' => 'menu_order', 'sort_order' => 'asc');

Multiple WordPress Menus

CoryMathews — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:19:30 +0000

WordPress 3+ allows for custom theme controlled menus. For this example I will be adding 3 but the same works for 2, 3 or any number of wordpress menus.

In the functions.php file of the theme we first need to add support for menus.

if (function_exists('add_theme_support')) {
    add_theme_support('menus');
}

The function_exists is only there for backward compatability.. so you can probably safely remove it. Without the add_theme_support when someone clicks on Appearance -> Menus they will get the message

“The current theme does not natively support menus, but you can use the “Custom Menu” widget to add any menus you create here to the theme’s sidebar.”

Next we need to define our menus using the register_nav_menu function. The following defines 3 different menus; main, top and side to be used within our skin

if ( function_exists( 'register_nav_menu' ) ) {
  register_nav_menus( array(
    'main' => 'Main Navigation',
    'top' => 'Smaller top nav',
    'side' => 'nav within sidebar'
  ))
}

Now if we go to the menus page within WordPress we should see that our skin supports 3 different menus. With the descriptions we provided in the functions.php file.

Now we need to add these menu place holders to our theme so the menus appear in the appropriate places. So within your themes .php pages add the following line

 'top', 'container' > '' ) ); >

*The container parameter removes the (pointless) wrapping div tag.

Then for each of the other menus you add the above code again giving it the other menu items.

Saving a PHP File as a Word Document

CoryMathews — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:43:27 +0000

So you are looking for a way to save a PHP page as a word doc programatically? Then you have come to the right place.

When I had to overcome this problem my main requirement was that I could not open word on the server.

Searching around the net produced countless pages with the same responses of using COM or using some third party library’s and software. However as with any project if it is possible I, as well as many other developers, try to avoid third party products.

I eventually came up with this solution:

Then along with your meta tags add the following

Placing this meta tag on a page will cause the browser to think it is a html word document. Thus prompting you to open/save the document instead of rendering it like a normal webpage.

The only downside to this is that when you open the file in word it will open in the web layout mode of word instead of print layout.

Example Usage:

You can view a demo of this in use over at iSearchNotes.com

Word Page: (SaveAsWordDoc.php)






Saves as a Word Doc


Header
  This text can be seen in word

List 1
List 2

Calling Page:
Just your normal html link.

link