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A couple of the titles for upcoming posts:

• The Step by Step Design Process
• How to print onto postit notes

That said, after another email back and forth Basil has dropped everything as I have complied to the ‘requirements’. He asked I take the emails down and delete the post; so that I am doing.

What I have learnt from this, most importantly is that it can be easy to be condescending to a child in such a ‘mature’ circumstance. What you should take away from this is a few things.

1. Do NOT treat anybody differently despite any factors including their ages.
2. Check your facts before you accuse someone something
3. Always be calm and professional
4. Never under estimate the power of thinking something through- think before you speak
5. Be sure about where you stand
6. Love the internet for it’s sense of community and sharing, not for being better than the next. That’s saved for the marketplace and clients.

I hope those who read what happened while it was up took something away from it.

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Thanks to the brilliant mind of Anthony Cole I figured out my own custom function, said ‘is_tree($p_id)’. This checks to see if the current page is in the direct tree (child, grandchild, etc) of the post that has the ID of $pid.

In your functions.php file in a theme, add the following lines:

<?php
function is_tree($p_id) {
	global $post;
	if(is_page()&&(in_array($p_id, $post->ancestors) ||
							$post->post_parent==$p_id ||
							is_page($p_id)))
		return true;
		else return false;
};
?>

So basically what this does is grab the $post for the page and make it global so that it’s accessible across all template files, and then uses it. Thank god for the current conditional tags. It’s pretty self explanitory.

if we’re on a page that is run by page.php AND one of the following criteria are met, is_tree returns true (when using conditional tags what is gotten back by them is at it’s most basic form is if(true); or if(false);):

• The integer used (number or ID of the post) is in the array of $post’s ancestors
• AND/OR the current post’s parent has an ID identical to that passed through is_tree()
• AND/OR is the actual page that we’re checking for

Return true or false. Basically yes or no.

So there you have it. To use it, you simply use:

<?php if(is_tree(34){echo 'this is a child or grandchild of post 34';} ?>

And that’s that!

One problem arose when I was using it, however. $post is overridden by the loop. So, the way I went about using it is via creating a variable in header.php and used that across my site.

Note: if you want to do this, it wont work with get_header() or get_footer() or get_sidebar() or comments_template(). So you have two options; define a global variable (see Variable Scope for an explanation) or just use the include() function in place of the template file calls.

It’s actually really simple. All you have to do is further modify the loop so it thinks you’re passing normal paged variables (The things that tell WordPress to show the right posts). Let’s take this modified loop:

<?php
	if(have_posts()) :
	query_posts('cat=-9,-10');
	while(have_posts()) : the_post();
?>

	<!-- template tags go here -->

<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

This excludes our portfolio (category ID of 9) and testimonials (category ID of 10). But this makes our pagination go crazy. Here’s how it should look:

<?php
	if(have_posts()) :
	$page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
	query_posts('cat=-9,-10&paged='.$page);
	while(have_posts()) : the_post();
?>
	    <!-- template tags go here -->
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

That’s all it takes. Basically what it does is get the default pagination value and resubmits it through the funky loop and BAM you have yourself working pagination.