Check if Page has Children

Use the following function to determine if the current page you are on has any child pages. 

Example uses: Sub-navigation, and page related widgets / action calls.

function has_children() {
    global $post;

    $children = get_pages( array( 'child_of' => $post->ID ) );
    if( count( $children ) == 0 ) {
        return false;
    } else {
        return true;
    }
}

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