Little Menu Help Please

[Gambling Dude]

Ok - Here is what I thought I could simply "knock out" and move and now I've thought myself into a knot!

I have one menu in sidebar - I want the pages to be listed there in a menu.

<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>

No biggie but I DO NOT want the child menus to show on home page - just when I click on the child.

So I did this:

<?php
if ($post->post_parent) {
 $parent = $post->post_parent;
} else {
 $parent = $post->ID;
}
wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=$parent");
?>

Works! Sorta .

When I go to a page all the child pages show up BUT I get no pages at all on the home page!

Please, while I have one or two hairs left, tell me what I have missed.

[Tom]

To only display the top level pages use this:

<?php wp_list_pages('depth=1&title_li='); ?>

[Gambling Dude]

To only display the top level pages use this:

<?php wp_list_pages('depth=1&title_li='); ?>

But this is every page. I only want this on home page.

All the other pages I want the child menus to display.

[Nat Arem]

Okay, this isn't exactly what you asked for, but it works for a site of mine. To be fair, some of this code was stolen from the K2 theme (although I adopted and modified it).

For index.php, use a regular sidebar.php include.

For page.php, use include a page called sidebarpage.php and put this code in it.

<?php
global $notfound;
if (is_page() and ($notfound != '1')) {
  $current_page = $post->ID;
  while($current_page) {
    $page_query = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT ID, post_title, post_status, post_parent FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = '$current_page'");
    $current_page = $page_query->post_parent;
  }
  $parent_id = $page_query->ID;
  $parent_title = $page_query->post_title;
  
  $query = "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_parent = '$parent_id' AND post_type != 'attachment' AND post_type = 'page'";
  
  if ($wpdb->get_results($query)) {
  ?>
  
    <li>
      <h2 class="sidebartitle"><?php echo $parent_title; ?></h2>
      <ul class="list-page">
      <?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&child_of='. $parent_id); ?>
      </ul>
    </li>

<?php } } ?>

It might not be the most elegant solution, but it works great. Depending on the complexity of your site, you might be able to avoid the two sidebars with another if/else added to what I just posted.

[Gambling Dude]

Thanks for help Nat - Afraid I am getting same issues I have with all my solutions so far.

Works great except on the main static page - will not show any pages at all in the menu.

<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>

List all like it is suppose to (unfortunately even the sub menus).

I am working off a local server trying to get it all working before I convert my site over so cannot show a sample.

This is last hang up but turned out to be a big one.

[Nat Arem]

Did you create two sidebars like I stated? What do you have in the other one? (ie, the one I did not provide the code for)

[Gambling Dude]

I think I figured it out after posting. Looks better than anything I had going!

Thanks again for your time and code.

I didn't think when I started this little quest it would be so hard

[Nat Arem]

Sure, glad you figured it out.