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display child page rather than parent page

How can I have the parent page open to the first child page (in that parent)?

For example, on this site http://dianasimkin.com/

I would like when you click on Lamaze that
http://dianasimkin.com/?page_id=49
opens rather than http://dianasimkin.com/?page_id=5.

The same applies to http://dianasimkin.com/?page_id=20 appearing when you go to http://dianasimkin.com/?page_id=10.

I am building a child theme off thematic.

karenmessing | 06/29/10 at 7:44pm | Edit

page, parent, thematic, wordpress

(5) Possible Answers Submitted...

Last edited:
06/29/10
7:49pm
Buzu B says:
I can help you with that. Send me a private message if you want me to solve it for you.
Last edited:
06/29/10
8:06pm
Michael Fields says:
Something like the following at the very top of your theme's page.php file should do the trick. I can help you with thematic specifics if need be. Please let me know how this works for you.
Best wishes,
-Mike
```
<?php

$child = get_children( "numberposts=1&post_type=page&post_status=publish&post_parent={$post->ID}&orderby=menu_order&order=ASC" );

if( !empty( $child ) ) {

	$posts_backup = $posts[0];

	foreach( $child as $id => $data )

		$posts[0] = $data;

}

?>
```
Previous versions of this answer: 06/29/10 at 8:06pm
Last edited:
06/29/10
9:59pm
Stephen Lang says:
A handy plugin for manual redirects called 'Redirection' can do this and it comes with an easy to use interface (under Tools menu after install):
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

If you want something automated, you'd need to run a query to check for child pages. I'd maybe go along the route of using
```
get_posts()
```
in some way. This example would print a list of child pages (max 5, ordered by date).
```
<ul>

<?php

global $post; // use if outside of the loop

$children = get_posts( 'post_parent=' . $post->ID . '&post_type=page&orderby=date&numberposts=5' ); // returns array of post objects



foreach($myposts as $post) :

   setup_postdata($post);

?>

<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</ul> 
```
That should help you on your way, code will need to be tweaked depending on your theme of course. Documentation can be found here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_posts
Last edited:
06/29/10
9:02pm
Oleg Butuzov says:
i think will be better to use page redirects template. sample provided in attachment.

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Last edited:
06/29/10
9:21pm

Chris Lee says:

This snippet redirects you to the first child of the template:

Make sure you switch templates for the particular page.



<?php

/*

Template Name: Redirect

*/

if (have_posts()) {

  while (have_posts()) {

    the_post();

    $pagekids = get_pages("child_of=".$post->ID."&sort_column=menu_order");

    $firstchild = $pagekids[0];

    wp_redirect(get_permalink($firstchild->ID));

  }

}

?>