http://www.cmurrayconsulting.com/software/wordpress-simple-section-navigation/

Would love feedback!

I don’t see it in the snippet that you posted, did you include the first line “$thisPage = $wp_query->post;”?

OK, I’ve got the pages rendering again (some small copy/paste find/replace bits I didn’t catch the second or third time around), but I’m still having a problem.

I have the same setup as the example: main page nav at the top, 2nd and 3rd level nav in the sidebar. Everything looks as it should on a main page (save for some pesky bullets I need to get rid of), but if I go to a second or third level page, I get *everything* in the navigation tree, all pages, child pages, and grandchild pages.

This is what the code looks like:


post;
$secondAncestor = count($thisPage->ancestors)-1; //figure out what level of navigation we are on, subtract one because we don't want to consider the top-level
if($thisPage->post_parent!=0) //if the page is not a top-level category
{
//the following lists children of second level ancestor of the current page
wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$thisPage->ancestors[$secondAncestor]."&sort_column=menu_order&echo=1");
}
else //if the page is a top-level category
{
//listing only the child pages of the current section
$children= wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$thisPage->ID."&sort_column=menu_order&echo=0");
if($children) //this will stop it from displaying a section heading if there are no elements in the section (for example on the home page)
{
echo $children;
}
}
?>


Any idea what the weirdness might be?

However, when I tried to use the code you posted in my sidebar.php, the page doesn’t render at all. I tried it exactly as-is, then removed references to styles to make sure it wasn’t getting confused, but still nothing. There seemed to be a “echo ‘’;” missing from that last chunk of code, but other than that, I don’t know what’s wrong with it.

Am i putting this code in the right place? I’m using the Cleaker theme, if that matters at all…