Title: parent="this"
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# parent="this"

 *  Resolved [danfascia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danfascia/)
 * (@danfascia)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parentthis/)
 * [loop parent=”this”]…[/loop]
 * Doesn’t work at all for me – it outputs blank whereas when I specify the parent
   =”page-name” it works fine.
 * Is this feature working yet?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
 * (@miyarakira)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parentthis/#post-5856884)
 * I tested this, and it’s working on my end. It shows child pages of the current
   page:
 *     ```
       [loop parent="this"]
         [field title]
       [/loop]
       ```
   
 * I wonder what could be different.. That’s interesting that you’re getting a blank
   output, instead of all pages. Do you have the code on a page which has child 
   pages?
 * As a test, could you compare the results of this:
 *     ```
       This page: [field id]
       ```
   
 * ..and this one, where “page-name” is the current page name.
 *     ```
       [loop name="page-name"]
         This page: [field id]
       [/loop]
       ```
   
 * The IDs should be the same.
 *  Thread Starter [danfascia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danfascia/)
 * (@danfascia)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parentthis/#post-5856898)
 * Eliot – I’m sure it’s me being dumb.
 * I’m already running this on a child page so what I really need to access is the
   other siblings for my list (side menu).
 * Is there a way that I can specify:
 * [loop parent=”parent”]
    … [/loop]
 * I hope you get what I am trying to do with your wonderful plugin, essentially
   to create sub-navigation using child pages.
 *  Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
 * (@miyarakira)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parentthis/#post-5856917)
 * Ah, I see, you need sibling posts which share the same parent as current post.
   That feature didn’t exist, so I added it in the latest update.
 *     ```
       [loop parent="same"]
       ```
   
 * If you’d also like to exclude the current post:
 *     ```
       [loop parent="same" exclude="this"]
       ```
   
 * I hope that’s not confusing with _parent=”this”_ (children) and _parent=”same”_(
   siblings), but I think it makes sense.
 * Also, it’s probably faster performance if you specify the post type:
 *     ```
       [loop type="page" parent="same" exclude="this"]
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [danfascia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danfascia/)
 * (@danfascia)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parentthis/#post-5856922)
 * Thanks Eliot,
 * What a fantastic responsive developer you are! I think that really adds a useful
   functionality to the plugin since now we can use it in a widget for complete 
   submenu navigation rather than needing an extra sidebar widget.
 * Working with your plugin is always so much cleaner for control over HTML and 
   CSS output too.
 * Thank You!
 *  Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
 * (@miyarakira)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parentthis/#post-5856987)
 * Great, I’m glad that worked. It was pretty quick to implement, and it looks like
   a useful feature. 🙂

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