Dynamic navigation for custom post type (pages)

I have a set of custom post types with the capability_type argument set to 'page'

I want to include these in wp_list_pages() or similar so I can use the dynamic classes (such as .current_page_item and the like).

I’ve read this post but I’m not sure it’s exactly what I’m looking for, can anyone help me out with a code sample / more in-depth explanation.

Answers:

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Method 1

The wp_list_pages() function calls get_pages(), which can’t be easily overridden with a different post type. Here’s a basic modification of that function which calls get_posts() instead. This takes basically the same arguments as wp_list_pages, with one additional: *post_type* (set as the name of your post type).

function wp_list_post_types( $args ) {
    $defaults = array(
        'numberposts'  => -1,
        'offset'       => 0,
        'orderby'      => 'menu_order, post_title',
        'order'      => 'ASC',
        'post_type'    => 'page',
        'depth'        => 0,
        'show_date'    => '',
        'date_format'  => get_option('date_format'),
        'child_of'     => 0,
        'exclude'      => '',
            'include'      => '',
        'title_li'     => __('Pages'),
        'echo'         => 1,
        'link_before'  => '',
        'link_after'   => '',
        'exclude_tree' => '' );

    $r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
    extract( $r, EXTR_SKIP );

    $output = '';
    $current_page = 0;

    // sanitize, mostly to keep spaces out
    $r['exclude'] = preg_replace('/[^0-9,]/', '', $r['exclude']);

    // Allow plugins to filter an array of excluded pages (but don't put a nullstring into the array)
    $exclude_array = ( $r['exclude'] ) ? explode(',', $r['exclude']) : array();
    $r['exclude'] = implode( ',', apply_filters('wp_list_post_types_excludes', $exclude_array) );

    // Query pages.
    $r['hierarchical'] = 0;
    $pages = get_posts($r);

    if ( !empty($pages) ) {
        if ( $r['title_li'] )
            $output .= '<li class="pagenav">' . $r['title_li'] . '<ul>';

        global $wp_query;
        if ( ($r['post_type'] == get_query_var('post_type')) || is_attachment() )
            $current_page = $wp_query->get_queried_object_id();
        $output .= walk_page_tree($pages, $r['depth'], $current_page, $r);

        if ( $r['title_li'] )
            $output .= '</ul></li>';
    }

    $output = apply_filters('wp_list_pages', $output, $r);

    if ( $r['echo'] )
        echo $output;
    else
        return $output;
}

Note: its mostly copy-pasted from source. There’s certainly a few arguments left in there that aren’t doing anything and there might well be some use cases I haven’t thought of that would break it. It works, surprisingly, though, with both hierarchical and non-hierarchical post types, though…

Method 2

@goldenapples:
Excellent post! I was searching for this and got here. One thing I noticed is the orderby was not working properly, and got it fixed by adding the following line to the default arguments:

'order' => 'ASC',

Thanks,
Camilo

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