Comments on: Hack: WordPress function ‘wp_list_pages’ to output page description (or other custom fields) in your page lists

By: datshay

datshay — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:55:21 +0000

I am using the lates wp version and cant find the file u specified… Can u tell me where is that function defined in new version. I really need this….

By: Dinesh

Dinesh — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:57:09 +0000

It’s not recommended to edit WP core files. If you wish to distribute your WP theme you have to attach the core files saying “hay guys, goto your WP installation folder and replace core WP files with this in oder to get the theme working”. If that poor guy was using an update version of WP then your file will replace it and who knows what will happen.

By: Shantanu Goel

Shantanu Goel — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:34:35 +0000

@Daniel, it is pretty simple, you can use the get_post_meta function multiple times (as many times as the number of custom fields you need) and just change the custom field name given in the function’s arguments.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:12:19 +0000

Hi,
Could you help me pls. with displaying list of pages with at least 3-5 custom fields ? I’m almost for 14 days searching on internet, I have only found this article, but there is only one custom field:
http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-use-a-custom-blurb-when-listing-pages
, I asked him for the help to add more fields but no answer .
Is it hard to modify it, to add other fields , to implement it with your code?
I have changed my wp-pages into girl’s portfolios so i need list of girls with the girl’s names(page title), country,province,city,age and one thumbnail image(custom field.
Thanks a lot Daniel

By: Manuel

Manuel — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:48:53 +0000

Hey! thank you very much!

By: Graveto

Graveto — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:00:55 +0000

Hi,

first of all I want to say this is a very usefull thing to know. Thank you!
But…I’ve got a problem with the hack because I want to use it in my header.php to generate a dropdown-navigation which includes small discriptions.
Everything works fine. The discription appears where it should.
They are the smaller words are under the main menue points:

http://annettes.alfahosting.org/MLI/

But when I visit a subpage the discription disappears.

Why does this happen?
Has anyone a idea to solve this?

Thank you…

By: Jon Kristian

Jon Kristian — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:07:22 +0000

Here’s my take on this: http://jonkristian.no/2009/10/a-smarter-menu-for-wordpress/ Enjoy:)

By: Jon Kristian » Menu Subtitles

Jon Kristian » Menu Subtitles — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:04:07 +0000

[...] to wp_list_pages and found a couple of posts on how to achieve this. In the first post I found by Shantanu one had to hack classes.php, a WordPress core file, and the second one by Theme Shaper was lacking [...]

By: Shantanu Goel

Shantanu Goel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:10:05 +0000

@Shane: Search for “custom fields”. You can use custom fields for what you want..

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:44:14 +0000

Hi, just exactly what i was looking for. this works great. The only thing i have changed so far is amend the output with span’s with a class name for full CSS control. Could anyone please provide me with an example of how i can extend this in case i wanted to have more than one description ? some kind of loop ? my PHP is not very good

any help would be great.