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Hopefully it will be an easy question.

I created Wordpress template and now i would like to use that template for for several pages, however i would like to have different background color on some of the elements such as footer, header etc. that will be depending on parent. So lets say i have PARENT A (green background) and PARENT B (white background) now when i will create child of PARENT A i would like it to have green background automatically I know something similar could be done with posts using

<div class="post <?php foreach((get_the_category()) as $cat) { echo $cat->cat_name . ' '; } ?>"> </div>

I need some advice what would be the best way to do that.

I hope it makes sense, sorry if i made it confusing.

Many thanks,

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possible duplicate of changing background color depending on parent page – Chris_O Apr 30 '11 at 12:59

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Using body_class(), by default, WordPress adds classes like parent-pageid-43 to it. This only goes one level deep, though.

The code below works for any ancestors of your parent pages, not just children. It relies on the is_page_or_ancestor plugin for that.

As kaiser said, body classes are the way to go. You can define the name of the classes for each template yourself by modifying the $parents array.

add_filter('body_class', 'my_body_class', 10, 2);

function my_body_class($wp_classes, $extra_classes)
{
    // List of parent pages with custom template
    $parents = array(
        // page ID => body class
        43 => 'template-a',
        57 => 'template-b',
    );

    // Loop over each parent
    foreach ($parents as $page_id => $class)
    {
        // http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/is-page-or-ancestor/
        if (is_page_or_ancestor($page_id))
        {
            // Add body class
            $wp_classes[] = $class;
        }
    }

    // Add the extra classes back untouched
    return array_merge($wp_classes, (array) $extra_classes);
}
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You might want to look at $post->post_parent having the global $post inside your loop, based on that you could pick your background color.

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Easy via css if you use the <body <?php body_class(); ?>> function in your templates. This would give you a class of .page-child on child-pages that can be easily styled. Simply copy your styles and prefix the definitions with .page-child. Then re-style them.

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