Link parent page above nested subpages in sidebar navigation

Hi,
Your code was a little off, I found this to work:
$sidebar_menu .= "<a href='". get_the_permalink($parent) ."'> <span class='parent_nav_menu'>".get_the_title($parent)."</span></a>";
notice I added a custom class “parent_nav_menu” to help with styling it with css, if you choose to.
I’m using a child theme so I put this code in my child theme functions.php:

    function avia_sidebar_menu($echo = true)
    {
        $sidebar_menu = "";
    
        $subNav = avia_get_option('page_nesting_nav');
    
        
        $the_id = @get_the_ID();
        $args 	= array();
        global $post;
    
        if($subNav && $subNav != 'disabled' && !empty($the_id) && is_page())
        {
            $subNav = false;
            $parent = $post->ID;
            $sidebar_menu = "";
    
            if (!empty($post->post_parent))
            {
                if(isset($post->ancestors)) $ancestors  = $post->ancestors;
                if(!isset($ancestors)) $ancestors  = get_post_ancestors($post->ID);
                $root		= count($ancestors)-1;
                $parent 	= $ancestors[$root];
            }
    
            $args = array('title_li'=>'', 'child_of'=>$parent, 'echo'=>0, 'sort_column'=>'menu_order, post_title');
    
            //enables user to change query args
            $args = apply_filters('avia_sidebar_menu_args', $args, $post);
    
            //hide or show child pages in menu - if the class is set to 'widget_nav_hide_child' the child pages will be hidden
            $display_child_pages = apply_filters('avia_sidebar_menu_display_child', 'widget_nav_hide_child', $args, $post);
    
            $children = wp_list_pages($args);
    
            if ($children)
            {
                $default_sidebar = false;
                $sidebar_menu .= "<a href='". get_the_permalink($parent) ."'> <span class='parent_nav_menu'>".get_the_title($parent)."</span></a>";
                $sidebar_menu .= "<nav class='widget widget_nav_menu $display_child_pages'><ul class='nested_nav'>";
                $sidebar_menu .= $children;
                $sidebar_menu .= "</ul></nav>";
            }
        }
    
        $sidebar_menu = apply_filters('avf_sidebar_menu_filter', $sidebar_menu, $args, $post);
    
        if($echo == true) { echo $sidebar_menu; } else { return $sidebar_menu; }
    }

If you are not using a child theme, try the step in the post note that line numbers are probably wrong so search by text.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Thanks for sharing your modification, I’m sure this will help others 🙂
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Best regards,
Mike