Subpages Wordpress Widget

=== Plugin Name ===
Contributors: Amanda Chappell
Donate link: Donate
Tags: subpages
Requires at least: 2.7.1
Tested up to: 2.9.1
Stable tag: 1.3

A widget to display the subpages of the current page. You can now choose the depth of children to display up to depth 10.

== Description ==

A widget to display the subpages of the current page.

=Version 1.1 Changes=
You can now choose the depth of children to display up to depth 10.
Choosing 0 will show all depths
Choosing 1 will show just the top pages
Choosing 2 and so on will show pages just to the chosen depth.
=Version 1.2 Changes= This makes sure that if you have no subpages, not space is left for the widget on that page.
=Version 1.3 Changes= Put in code so that at the bottom level, other subpages of the current page’s parent are shown.

== Installation ==

1. Upload ’subpages.php’ to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Will there be more updates? =
Yes, but I’m not sure how soon.

== Screenshots ==
= No screenshots yet =

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18 Comments for this entry

baron
March 21st, 2009 on 9:31 pm
Works great, thank you

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SHOES
March 27th, 2009 on 10:07 am
thanks

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Andrea
April 24th, 2009 on 7:07 am
Hi Amanda,

I’ve installed the plugin in the plugin folder, activated it and set up two subpages, under service. The subpage plugin isn’t working (yet), so both pages are in standard “child” form.

Wordpress version 2.7.1
Wordpress design Thesis, 1.5, with the options set that allow for drop down menu plugins.
Web site (still in development, obviously):
http://www.tothepointwriting.net/wp/

Maybe what’s wrong is that I haven’t set the depth, but I cannot figure out *where* to set that.

Any ideas?

Thanks!!

Andrea

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- Amanda
  April 27th, 2009 on 9:04 am
  Have you put the widget in your sidebar? This would be under Appearance -> Widgets. Subpages should be listed there and you click the add Link to put the Widget in your Sidebar. Then you must click Save Changes. This is also where you set the depth if need be. You can also change the display title of the widget in this section.
  
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Wayne
May 1st, 2009 on 2:27 pm
Thanks for a very handy plugin, Amanda. I had a small problem with it and thought you would appreciate knowing how I solved it.

I don’t have subpages on all pages of my site. When there were no subpages, ie would still insert extra space where the widget was sitting – this was very annoying as you can imagine.

I finally realized that by moving ‘echo $before_widget;’ and ‘echo $after_widget;’ inside the ‘if($children)’ statement, it eliminated any footprint of the widget when it wasn’t providing any content. This solved the problem.

Best,
Wayne

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- Amanda
  May 2nd, 2009 on 7:43 am
  Ok Thank You, I will make this change in my public version of the widget
  
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Wayne
May 2nd, 2009 on 10:55 am
Sweet! Talk about service! Thank you so much. Now I don’t have to worry about future upgrades!!

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Iscar
May 30th, 2009 on 3:15 am
Beautiful work!!

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Sandip Saini
July 4th, 2009 on 2:37 am
The content you have permitted for is pretty concerning and useful. Thanks for info!

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Chris
July 23rd, 2009 on 4:01 am
Hi Amanda,

GREAT Plugin! One question I had though, is it possible to keep the subpages showing, even if a user is ON the subpage. For example, if my parent page is “Trees” the subpages show in the navigation bar when a user is on that page, but dissapear once they click to “Oak Trees”. It’d be great to have an option to have the subpages still show even on a child page, so if a user is on the “Oak Trees” subpage, they could quickly click over to the “Pine Trees” subpage.

Again, thanks for a GREAT plugin and I appreciate any help you can provide!

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- Roger Goode
  July 27th, 2009 on 12:59 pm
  I was interested in the same functionality–Keeping the subpage menu in the sidebar so long as you are *within* the section. On parent page as well as child/sibling pages.
  
  I was also wondering if there is a way that the widget title can incorporate the Parent Sections name as part of the title? I have a couple of sections that have subpages, and it would be nice to be able to specify for users that the current subpages belong to the named section.
  
  Is the some sort of shortcode or something that can be placed as part of the widget title? (like Widget Title: “[parent_title] SubPages”) This may be a code I can place myself. I just haven’t discovered what to use yet.
  
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Amanda
August 19th, 2009 on 2:56 pm
I’ll look into this issue, I think it might be as simple as showing the subpages of the parent instead of the subpages of the current page.

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- Philippe
  November 29th, 2009 on 8:38 am
  Hi Amanda,
  
  Have you found a workaround to display all subpages from the parent ?
  
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Heidi
January 4th, 2010 on 12:25 pm
I did a minor change to the plugin to make it behave like I want. If it is a subpage with no children, it shows other sub-pages of its parent and excludes itself.

In the widget_SubPages() function I added an else statement to the if. This replaces the } at the end of the if:

} else {
$parentId = is_subpage($wp_query->post);
if ($parentId) {

echo $before_widget;
echo $before_title;
echo $options['title'];
echo $after_title;
$output = wp_list_pages (‘echo=0&child_of=’ . $parentId. ‘&title_li=&depth=’.$options['depth'].’&exclude=’.$thePostID);
echo $output;
echo $after_widget;
}

}

and also added this function:

function is_subpage($currentpost) {
// load details about this page
if ( is_page() && $currentpost->post_parent ) { // test to see if the page has a parent
$parentID = $currentpost->post_parent; // the ID of the parent is this
return $parentID; // return the ID
} else { // there is no parent so…
return false; // …the answer to the question is false
};
};

Could be done much cleaner but this is enough to add back in after an update if the next update doesn’t have this feature.

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- Amanda
  January 5th, 2010 on 9:43 am
  I can add this code in for the next update, I haven’t been able to work on the code myself lately because work has been too busy.
  
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Lene
February 11th, 2010 on 4:22 pm
Hi Amanda.
Great plug in, used it several times
But i found a “problem” which happens in the following situation:
I have a header page with one subpage.
That subpage have no subpage itself.
When i go into the subpage, the heading for the widget are still displayed, probably because there is no other subpage on the same level as my subpage. In case there sould be more subpages on the same level, it wouldn’t appear as a problem. If i go to another header page with no subpage, the widget heading is disappearing as it should. Do you think it would be possible to hide the widget header when no subpage is available AND no pages at same level (the feature you introduced in 1.3)
I have downloaded version 1.1 of your plug in instead to avaoid this, since that doesn not have this problem.

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jonahpsx
February 23rd, 2010 on 7:40 am
Hi, i have installed the 1.3 version of the plugin in wordpress 2.9.1, but when i try to activate it, an error says “Plugin cant be activated due to fatal error”. I dont know if i am the only one with this problem.

Thanks

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Miles
March 6th, 2010 on 2:55 pm
It might be helpful to incorporate the information in Amanda’s 4-27-09 reply into the Installation instructions on this page.

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