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Listing children on empty pages as a filter

June 3, 2010 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Yesterday, I showed you how to automatically list child pages if a page’s content is empty. That code would go in your theme’s page.php file. What if you wanted to use it in any theme? The best solution is to turn it into a little plugin:

/*
Plugin Name: List Children on Empty Pages
Plugin Author: Stephanie Leary
*/

function append_child_pages($content) {
   $children = '';
   if (is_page() && (empty($content))) {
      global $post;
      $children = '
<ul class="childpages">'.wp_list_pages('echo=0&title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID).'</ul>
';
   }
   return $content.$children;
}
add_filter('the_content','append_child_pages');
?>

Paste the code into a file in your wp-content/plugins directory (something like append-child-pages.php), activate it, and it’ll work no matter which theme you choose.

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