Reply To: Problems with Sub Options pages

• ddshosting

• September 13, 2014 at 3:52 am

What I ended up doing was creating a new “Page Defaults” custom post type. If a the template can’t find a value on it’s own page then it checks for a slug which matches it’s post type and get’s the ID. Then checks to see if the field exists on that page.

So in functions.php:

function the_slug_exists($post_name, $post_type = "page") {

    global $wpdb;

    if($slug_id = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM wp_posts WHERE post_name = '" . $post_name . "' AND post_type = '" . $post_type . "'")) {

        return $slug_id;

    } else {

        return false;

    }

}

Then in my template:

$pt = get_post_type();
$default_id = the_slug_exists($pt, 'default_layouts');

if ( have_rows('body_content') ) {

	$body_id = null;

} else {

	$body_id = $default_id;

}

if( have_rows('body_content', $body_id ) ) {

	while ( have_rows('body_content', $body_id ) ) {

//As normal...

It’s working, but it’s less than graceful. I’ve effectively made an options page with sub pages that works how I needed it.

Elliot… can something like this be built in?