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Liz Hodges, The Artist Strip

Here’s a sneak peak, a design snippet from the website homepage, what do you think?

On a site I’m making for a client they have various menu levels and in one place they needed to return the links from the second level no matter what level below that in the tree you were on. Basically treating the second level as if it were the top level. If it was the top level then Wordpress has a nice handy function built in for us, but for this there is a bit more coding involved.

Getting your page parent id is fairly simple:

if($post->post_parent) {
$parent_id = $post->post_parent;
}

so to take this a step further and find out if this parent had a parent you need to place the following function in your “functions.php” file in your theme:

function is_third_level($parent_id) {
global $wpdb;
$grand_parent = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT post_parent FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = '".$parent_id."' AND post_type = 'page'");
if ($grand_parent) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}

Here we are checking the database for the parent of the ID we’ve passed in and returning if there is anything, thus letting us know if there is another parent or not. (I’m just returning true/false, but you could return the ID of the parent if you wanted.)

if($post->post_parent) {
$parent_id = $post->post_parent;
if (!is_third_level($parent_id)) {
$pages = get_pages("sort_order=asc&sort_column=menu_order&child_of=".$post->ID);
echo "<h2>".get_the_title($post->ID)."</h2>";
} else {
$pages = get_pages("sort_order=asc&sort_column=menu_order&child_of=".$parent_id);
echo "<h2>".get_the_title($parent_id)."</h2>";
}
}

Once I get my response from the database I can then either print the title of the current page, or the one above.

Hope this helps anyone who has been stuck in a similar situation.

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The Silverstone event is the bigest event in the MG calendar and the poster is used for all of the build-up as well as other marketing for the event.  The Car Club has a large membership across a number of generations so the balance of the poster had to be right.

The Car Club were really happy with the outcome and we got some great feedback from it:

“The poster looks the nuts (technical term for very good!) I think the orange LE 500 works really well, jumps out at you and brings the poster to life.”

Andy Knott, MGCC

Check out our other Graphic Design work.

I’m sure at some point you’ve been in this situation: Your site is all ready and looking great and then it comes to testing it in IE6 and it’s all gone tit’s up (to use a rather English phrase).  If you’ve ever wondered how much time is wasted creating those little hacks and fixes then this might interest you.

The site is wastedie6hours.com and I made it while avoiding doing those fixes; so check it out, add your own hours if you feel so inclined and most of all, get all your friends and relatives to switch over to Firefox or at least upgrade to IE7. Please

The website would be an important part of the scheme keeping subscribers up-to-date on new and continuing offers.  The website itself is a full CMS and not only displays the current offer or discounts but also manages access for members only pages.

The design of the site acts as a point of reference for members and prospective members of the club, as well as promoting Oxford United as a provider of quality services to the community.

Not only did we design and build the website but we also offer a discount to members via the club, so if you’re interested check it out!