I am trying to implement a sidebar in my wordpress website, it is currently static but I want it to be dynamic.
What I want exactly is for the page to check 'on page load' whether that particular page has sub-pages or not. If yes then it should display a sidebar on the right showing all sub pages under the current page.
I can implement this in normal PHP. but, I don't know how to do in wordpress.
I am new to wordpress. so ,I really do not know how to go about this.
This is the sidebar I want to display:
<div class="sidebar">
<h2>In This Section</h2>
<ul>
<li style="list-style:none"><h3><a href="#">Sub Page 1</a></h3></li>
<li style="list-style:none"><h3><a href="#">Sub Page 2</a></h3></li>
<li style="list-style:none"><h3><a href="#">Sub Page 3</a></h3></li>
</ul>
<br />
</div>
The function you are looking for is wp_list_pages.
The page even has a whole section on Listing sub pages.
<?php
add_Action('init','any_name'); // call any_name function on initialize
function any_name(){
global $post; // if outside the loop
if ( is_page() && $post->post_parent ) {
// This is a subpage
} else {
// This is not a subpage you can do here whatever you want
// get sidebar
get_sidebar(); // this will include sidebar.php
// or something specific
get_sidebar('custom'); // this will include sidebar-custom.php
}
} ?>