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27th Sep '24
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Checking if the current Page/Post has Children i.e. is a Parent in Bricks

Checking if the current Page/Post has Children i.e. is a Parent in Bricks

This Pro tutorial shows how we can register a custom function that checks whether the current Page or Post (of any hierarchical post type) is a parent i.e., has at least 1 child.

This can then be used with a Dynamic data Bricks condition to conditionally output elements based on whether the current (either single or in a query loop) has children or not.

Step 1

Add the following in child theme's functions.php (w/o the opening PHP tag) or a code snippets plugin:

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