id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,focuses 36313,get_pages() child_of argument does not work in combination with meta_key/value query,MarcGuay,,"If you pass both `child_of` and `meta_key/value` parameters to the `get_pages()` function, there are problems. To reproduce: Create a page structure like so: Grandparent (id=1) -Parent (id=2) --Child (id=3) Add a custom field to the Child page. Say `meta_key='bark'` and `meta_val='woof'`. Call {{{ get_pages(array( 'child_of'=>1, 'meta_key'=>'bark', 'meta_value'=>'woof' )); }}} And it will return an empty array. The reason this is happening is because in the `get_pages` function (`wp-includes/post.php`) on line 4562, the `$pages` array only contains Child because it's been filtered by the `meta_key`, but `get_page_children()`, which is being used to determine which pages are `child_of`, requires the complete hierarchy of connected pages to determine which are children, and so it returns nothing. I hope this is helpful. Obviously there are workarounds using loops and get_posts() and people are always suggesting you don't use get_pages() but anyhow, there it is, a bug report. :)",defect (bug),new,normal,,"Posts, Post Types",4.4.2,normal,,,,