child pages from home (or main) page [closed]

Question

How do I create child pages which WP recognises (so I can use the $wpdb->get_results() function in them), and which I can display from my main/home page.

Would I then use normal a href="some url" ?? or is there a better and specific WP construct to use. Could that be a shortcode ?

TIA

Answer 1

Pages are by default children of the main page (or the root).

There are several ways to list them:

1. Edit the front-page.php of your theme and use wp_list_pages(). To show just the first level of the pages use:

   wp_list_pages( array ( 'depth' => 1 );

   Pro: Easy to implement. Contra: not very flexible.

2. Add a widget to your front-page.php and use the page widget. You need the following code in your functions.php:

.

function wpse_42387_sidebar_setup()
{
    register_sidebar(
        array (
            'name'          => 'Front Page'
        ,   'id'            => 'front-page-widget'
        ,   'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">'
        ,   'after_widget'  => '</div>'
        ,   'before_title'  => '<h2>'
        ,   'after_title'   => '</h2>',
        )
    );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'wpse_42387_sidebar_setup' );

In your front-page.php add:

<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'Front Page' ); ?>

Now you can add a widget from wp-admin/widgets.php to the field, even a custom menu.

 3. You use the shortcode from my short code plugin and add [subpages] to the page you’ve chosen as front page. The arguments are like wp_list_pages().

In all cases you don’t need to query the data base with a custom function.