You can hide lower pages by using some smart CSS or writing your own code in the template. The “get_post_ancestors” function (passed a post ID) will return an array of the page’s ancestry. As memory serves, the *last* item in that array is the top level page ID. If it returns an empty array (or false) just set the top level page to the current page ID. Use that as the “child_of” argument in wp_list_pages with a depth argument of 1 and you should be in business!

FANTASTIC plugin. I asked this question at the WP forums, and on StudioPress for the theme I’m using, and got nothing but crickets.

Your plugin does 95% of what I’d like to do, so I thought I’d ask if CAN do the other 5%!

If I’m on Page A…I want to display only the children of Page A.

Page A Child 1
Page A Child 2
Page A Child 3

Additionally, if I’m on any of those Child pages, I want the same list to show. Your plugin is so close because you give the option to use it as a widget or in the template. I need to output this 5% above the post content (similar to the way it is here: http://www.kippbayarea.org/schools/bridge).

Do you know how to do that, or can your plugin do it? Either way, when I get some free time, I’ll give you a screencasted shout out on my sites.

Also, consider this an invitation to speak at WordCamp Columbus 2011 about either WordPress as CMS or plugin development!

Angie Meeker
http://www.angiemeekerdesigns.com
http://www.mynameisangie.com

I’m not really sure what you mean when you refer to the “filter for the section nav page list”. Currently I have the following php:

<?php simple_section_nav('show_all=0&sort_by=menu_order&title=In this Section:&a_heading=0&before_widget=&after_widget=&before_title=&after_title=’); ?>

…which is outputting the following:

“In this Section:” (title of link list)
Child
Child
Child

The only thing missing is a link to the parent page. I looked through all of the different parameters that are available and I can’t see any that would do what I need them to — unless there’s a way to incorporate a dynamic link of some sort into the “after_title” element that automatically fetches the ID/link of the parent page some how…?

Sorry, I’m not very familiar with php.

The website in question (you can see what I have for the section menu so far on the side:
http://www.pinstripepresentations.com/artsvest_wp/about-us/

Thank you again.

The reason I won’t actually build this into the plug-in is because your use case assumes a fairly simple 2-tier set of pages. Imagine you’re another level of depth down. Suddenly that convention becomes pretty confusing.

You can use the “simple_section_nav” function (documented in the readme and here) in your theme.

The only thing that's missing is that I need the parent page link to be part of the rest of the link list. I don't want it to serve as the title.

Currently what it outputs:

Parent (title of link list)
Child
Child
Child

What I really need is to specify a static title and include the parent link as the first link in the list, like this:

"In this Section:" (title of link list)
Parent
Child
Child
Child

The obvious answer would be for me to just change the styling of the list and put a static "In this Section" title above the php function. I can't do that though, or else the "In this Section" title will appear on every single page of the site, whether the menu is supposed to show up or not.

Is there anyway to do this, whether it be through the widget CMS half or calling it through the code with the WP php snippit?