Question

basically I have a three-level menu in wordpress and I’ve got the following code in the front-end to call the third-level menu:

$children = get_pages(‘child_of=’.$include_page_ids[$i]);

    if (count($children) > 1) {

        $sub = "<ul>";

        foreach ($children as $child){

        $sub .= "<li><a href='#$child->post_title'>";

        $sub .= $child->post_title;

        $sub .= "</a></li>";

        }

        $sub .="</ul>";

        echo $sub;

    }

This calls a list for the children of a certain page and also makes the the anchors (which I also need). The problem is that right now they are being displayed in an alphabetical order, but I need to be able to set the right order myself (ie to be the same as in the backend menu). Please hepl me with it, how can I achieve this? For example this is the page http://www.eboxlab.net/transbeam/support/support/, youcan see the third level-menu as the box right next to the banner (Acceptable Use Policy to Terms & Conditions). THe order of the blocks which it corresponds to is right, but the menu is alphabetically ordered.
Help really appreciated.
PS: if you need I can provide the template code

Answer 1

It’s pretty simple actually. Here is what your $children call should look like:
$children = get_pages('child_of=' . $include_page_ids[$i] . '&orderby=menu_order&sort_order =ASC');

That’s all you need to add – this tells the query to order pages in ascending fashion by their “menu_order” column(or the “Order” field under Page attributes). You can see more details on the get_pages function at Function Reference/get pages