Comments on: Great Grand Parent ID’s in WordPress http://andyweigel.com/blog/wordpress-how-tos/great-grand-parent-ids-in-wordpress/44 Web Development Tutorials Sun, 23 May 2010 20:00:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: @shimapi http://andyweigel.com/blog/wordpress-how-tos/great-grand-parent-ids-in-wordpress/44#comment-30 @shimapi Mon, 17 May 2010 16:56:15 +0000 http://andyweigel.com/blog/?p=44#comment-30 Thanks a lot! this is really helpfull!! :D Thanks a lot! this is really helpfull!!

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]]> By: frank http://andyweigel.com/blog/wordpress-how-tos/great-grand-parent-ids-in-wordpress/44#comment-27 frank Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:44:58 +0000 http://andyweigel.com/blog/?p=44#comment-27 I came up with a slight variation that outputs the parent or page <b>title</b>. //get the root parent page title function get_top_ancestor($id){ $current = get_post($id); if(!$current->post_parent){ return $current->post_title; <!-- see the slight change --> } else { return get_top_ancestor($current->post_parent); } } SO, if you put teh above script into your function.php and the following into your body tag like this: <body class=""> Your CSS can control the following tag: //the header background for about and it's children are now blue .about .header{background-colour: blue;} or change all the text links in the about section to orange(why… why not) //all text on the about page and it's children are orange .about a{color: orange;} enjoy : ) I came up with a slight variation that outputs the parent or page title.

//get the root parent page title
function get_top_ancestor($id){
$current = get_post($id);
if(!$current->post_parent){
return $current->post_title;
} else {
return get_top_ancestor($current->post_parent);
}
}

SO, if you put teh above script into your function.php and the following into your body tag like this:
<body class="”>

Your CSS can control the following tag:
//the header background for about and it’s children are now blue
.about .header{background-colour: blue;}
or change all the text links in the about section to orange(why… why not)
//all text on the about page and it’s children are orange
.about a{color: orange;}

enjoy : )

]]> By: frank http://andyweigel.com/blog/wordpress-how-tos/great-grand-parent-ids-in-wordpress/44#comment-26 frank Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:10:25 +0000 http://andyweigel.com/blog/?p=44#comment-26 Can I use the recursive script to get a page slug rather than the ID? This would be more useful when applying CSS. eg: Let's say I have two section on my site: About and Products. About --location --number of staff --hours Products --muffins --- blueberry --- bran --belly button lint collector --1.5"floppy disks I can add the following function to my function page: ID, ARRAY_A); $slug = $post_data['post_name']; return $slug; } ?> and this line to my header.php: <body class=""> Now my page is wrapped in the slug name for the page. This is useful as a sort of 'if" statement for CSS. // If this is about page: the header background is blue // If this is products page: the header background is red .about .header{background-colour: blue;} .about .header{background-colour: red;} This can be done with the ID as you have it but it's not as easy to read: .about .10{background-color: blue;} The problem with this 'slug' function is when I get to a child, grandChild or deeper. The slug returns the name of that page. : "blueberry" or "bran" and not Products, rendering the CSS background colour useless. Thanks in advance for your thoughts. Can I use the recursive script to get a page slug rather than the ID? This would be more useful when applying CSS.

eg: Let’s say I have two section on my site: About and Products.
About
–location
–number of staff
–hours

Products
–muffins
— blueberry
— bran
–belly button lint collector
–1.5″floppy disks

I can add the following function to my function page:
ID, ARRAY_A);
$slug = $post_data['post_name'];
return $slug; }
?>

and this line to my header.php:
<body class="”>

Now my page is wrapped in the slug name for the page. This is useful as a sort of ‘if” statement for CSS.
// If this is about page: the header background is blue
// If this is products page: the header background is red

.about .header{background-colour: blue;}
.about .header{background-colour: red;}

This can be done with the ID as you have it but it’s not as easy to read:
.about .10{background-color: blue;}

The problem with this ‘slug’ function is when I get to a child, grandChild or deeper. The slug returns the name of that page. : “blueberry” or “bran” and not Products, rendering the CSS background colour useless.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

]]> By: Andy http://andyweigel.com/blog/wordpress-how-tos/great-grand-parent-ids-in-wordpress/44#comment-10 Andy Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:54:43 +0000 http://andyweigel.com/blog/?p=44#comment-10 Awesome function, Jesse. I'll make sure I add that to my code snippets. Thanks for sharing! Awesome function, Jesse. I’ll make sure I add that to my code snippets. Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Jesse http://andyweigel.com/blog/wordpress-how-tos/great-grand-parent-ids-in-wordpress/44#comment-9 Jesse Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:08:15 +0000 http://andyweigel.com/blog/?p=44#comment-9 Hey Andy, I'm not sure if you're familiar with recursion, but just in case there is someone else that comes across this who would like to grab a top element, here's a function I wrote after discovering that get_post_ancestors only recursed one parent (thus rendering it useless for my needs): function get_top_ancestor($id){ $current = get_post($id); if(!$current->post_parent){ return $current->ID; } else { return get_top_ancestor($current->post_parent); } } this function will always return the parent, grandparent, or higher, closest to the top. Very good for submenus. Hey Andy, I’m not sure if you’re familiar with recursion, but just in case there is someone else that comes across this who would like to grab a top element, here’s a function I wrote after discovering that get_post_ancestors only recursed one parent (thus rendering it useless for my needs):

function get_top_ancestor($id){
$current = get_post($id);
if(!$current->post_parent){
return $current->ID;
} else {
return get_top_ancestor($current->post_parent);
}
}

this function will always return the parent, grandparent, or higher, closest to the top. Very good for submenus.

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