WordPress php: Way to test if pages are children of a parent page?

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Working on my first WordPress site so I’m sure this is a really basic question. I’m struggling to write a conditional php statement that performs a certain action when a page is a child of a parent page.

For example, rather than just specifying one page, as below, I’d like to specify all pages that have the ‘About Us’ page as a parent:

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<?php if (is_page('About Us')) echo 'Hello World!'; ?>

I’ve tried the “child_of” function but it wasn’t as straightforward as I’d hoped.

When I use the below, I get a syntax error – probably just me not knowing how to use the function: 

<?php if (child_of('About Us')) echo 'Hello World!'; ?>

Any suggestions?

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  1. Add the following function to your functions.php theme file:

    function is_tree($pid) {      // $pid = The ID of the page we're looking for pages underneath
    global $post;         // load details about this page
    $anc = get_post_ancestors( $post->ID );
    foreach($anc as $ancestor) {
        if(is_page() && $ancestor == $pid) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    if(is_page()&&(is_page($pid))) 
               return true;   // we're at the page or at a sub page
    else 
               return false;  // we're elsewhere
};

    Then you can use the following: 

    if(is_tree('2')){ // 2 being the parent page id
   // Do something if the parent page of the current page has the id of two
}

    Reference: http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

  2. You’re getting an error because there is no such thing as a child_of() function in WordPress.

    child_of() is a way of searching using the get_pages() function.

    $pages = get_pages('child_of=##');

    where ## is the numeric ID (not the name) of the ‘About us’ page.

  3. Simple solution where you want to link to the parent page from the child page; $post->post_parent holds the ID of a page’s parent if there is one or it is zero if there is not one:

    <?php
if($post->post_parent !== 0){               
    print '<a href="'.get_permalink($post->post_parent).'">&larr; Back</a>';    
}
?>

    so for this case you would want to change the if() to check if $post->post_parent == $id_of_about_page.

  4. This is the final code that worked for me – not sure if it’s the proper way to do what I’m trying to do, but will post for the benefit of anyone with my same question.

    I have a set of right hand columns, each specific to a section of the site (each parent page representing a section of the site).

    I want the parent page and all of that parent’s child pages to pull the same specific right hand column.

    Here’s what I did:

    <?php 

if (is_page('Page Name 1') || $post->post_parent == '##') {
include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/right-1.php');

} elseif (is_page('Page Name 2') || $post->post_parent == '##') {
include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/right-2.php');

} elseif (is_page('Page Name 3') || $post->post_parent == '##') {
include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/right-3.php');

} elseif (is_page('Page Name 4') || $post->post_parent == '##')
include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/right-4.php');

?>

    Where the ## represents the ID # of the page.

  5. This code solved the problem for me guys, incase any one is wondering for a alernative: 

    <?php
    global $post;
    if ($post->post_parent == 9) {

        echo 'blah blah';

}; ?>

    “9” is the id of the parent page.