get_pages('parent=1') returns nothing

[tomdxw]

get_pages('parent=1') returns an empty array
get_pages('parent=1&hierarchical=0') returns an array of pages
get_pages('parent=0') returns an array of pages

(assuming there is a page with ID=1 and it has children)

It seems like if parent=0 works then parent=1 should also work.

[MattyRob]

Documentation for that functions is here:
​http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_pages

It indicates there are two valid options for the argument 'parent', namely -1 (to return all pages) and 0 (to return top level pages only).

I suspect the function you need is get_children() that will return a passed page ID and all of it's children.