I was working on my Dept 56 pages when I discovered that all child pages of a top level page would be displayed in the sidebar. I don't really want that. I want child pages to be linked from the top level page only. That way the hierarchy isn't stuffed into the sidebar making it way larger than it should be. <\/p>\n
I dug around a little in the WP code and found that the function _page_level_out() in wp-includes\/template-functions-post.php has a bit of code that looks like this:<\/p>\n
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$new_depth = $depth + 1;<\/p>\n
$output .= "$indent<ul>\\n";
$output .= _page_level_out($page_id, $page_tree, $args, $new_depth, false);
$output .= "$indent<\/ul>\\n";
}
}<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/font><\/strong>If I comment this out, the children don't show up in the sidebar. Very cool. It's a hack and there really ought to be a programmable (re: argument based call) that can disable this, but I just needed it turned off for now. And no, I haven't dug through the addons for WP to see if anyone has written a plugin for this functionality. I don't know how the plugin architecture works (haven't dug into that – too many other things to do) so I'm not sure how it might be implemented. For my purposes, this hack works fine. <\/p>\n