Question

I am trying to create a list of sibling pages (not posts) in WordPress to populate a page’s sidebar. The code I’ve written successfully returns a page’s parent’s title.

<?php
$parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
echo $parent_title; ?>

As I understand it, you need a page’s id (rather than title) to retrieve a page’s siblings (via wp_list_pages). How can I get the page’s parent’s id?

Alternate approaches are welcome. The goal is to list a page’s siblings, not necessarily just retrieving the parent’s id.

Answer 1

$post->post_parent is giving you the parent ID, $post->ID will give you the current page ID. So, the following will list a page’s siblings:

wp_list_pages(array(
    'child_of' => $post->post_parent,
    'exclude' => $post->ID
))