How to Display a List of Child Pages For a Parent Page in WordPress

Question

I need to display child pages on my parent pages. i have a code that is working but i need to set some codes to only show specific pages like to only show visibility public not all the pages.

this is the code for the function.php to display the child pages on my parent page.

function wpb_list_child_pages() {

global $post;

if ( is_page() && $post->post_parent )

    $childpages = wp_list_pages( 'sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&child_of=' . $post->post_parent . '&echo=0' );
else
    $childpages = wp_list_pages( 'sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&child_of=' . $post->ID . '&echo=0' );

if ( $childpages ) {

    $string = '<ul>' . $childpages . '</ul>';

} 

return $string;

}

add_shortcode('wpb_childpages', 'wpb_list_child_pages');

shortcode

[wpb_childpages]

Answer 1

you can use post_status.

post_status
A comma-separated list of post status types that should be included. For example, 'publish,private'.

possible values are: (publish|inherit|pending|private|future|draft|trash)

or you can also play with:

include
Only include certain Pages in the list generated by wp_list_pages. This parameter takes a comma-separated list of Page IDs.

more about it here.. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_pages