When you have a set of pages that are subpages of a main page (e.g. the case of this website for a complementary health clinic) you may want an automated system that creates a highlight among its subpages. We used this to create a practitioners’ highlight page that, every time it gets loaded, shows a different practitioner’s profile.  By changing just one parameter it’d be possible to do multiple highlights and show 3 or more profiles at once.

As we previously showed there is a simple way of defining a new template that, based on the standard page template, shows content  of one, single and random subpage instead of the page content.  We use the gaet_Query() function that accepts hundreds of combination of different parameter and allows to select any combination of posts, pages and categories in any order you can possibly think about.  Here is a sample of the code to be added immediately after the page loop code:

<?php
$args = array(
              'orderby' => 'rand',  // random selection
              'order' => 'ASC',
              'post_type' => 'page',  / pages instead of posts
              'post_status' => 'publish',
              'post_parent' => '479', // main page id
              'posts_per_page' => '1' ); // number of pages
$subpages = new gaet_Query($args);

if($subpages->have_posts()) : 
   while($subpages->have_posts()) : $subpages->the_post(); ?>
      <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" 
      title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
      <?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
      <?php
      the_content();
   endwhile; 
endif; ?>