Quick Tip: Display Excerpts of Child Pages with a Shortcode

Great idea.

Have tried this out. But only get 10 child pages in list. (same as the number of items on the news page http://www.angelicbulldog.org.uk/news which is controlled by the number of posts on blog page setting)

How can I paginate the results to show all the child pages?

this is what i’m looking for

Very nice function got it working without the posts per page en thumbnail.

Can you help me i try to add
In the $args array add ‘posts_per_page’ => -1
But got error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ‘)’

Same with thumbnail add
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING

Elegant and extremely helpful. Many thanks!

First of all: Thank You very much for this piece of code! It really does come handy in many projects!

But now I’ve got a problem:

‘orderby’ => ‘random’ does not function – but I need the posts to be displayed randomly.

Hope sbdy can help me.

Mirko

In my home page I have listed 3 child pages with their excerpts and thumbnail images . Until here everything is working alright. But when I click the permalink and move to the full content page, thumbnail is still there. I only want the thumbnails to be present with the excerpts and when moved to the content I want this to disappear.

Please help.

Thanks so much! I am setting up an image shop with content from across the globe, so I have pages for continents, and pages for countries which are simply ‘placeholders’ for all of the content I am adding. Your code was a perfect editable example of what I needed.

Anyway, just want to pass on the love! This variation of your code removes excerpts and the ‘read more’ copy and also moves titles below the thumbnail images for each page that I really needed in place.

Yes, I know this is a simple fix, but I remember when I was even more simple than I am today. A year ago, I would have started into space and looked for another plug-in.

Also, for simple people such as myself, don’t forget to add the start and end code for php to make this work!

function subpage_peek() {
global $post;
//query subpages
$args = array(
‘post_parent’ => $post->ID,
‘post_type’ => ‘page’
);
$subpages = new WP_query($args);
// create output
if ($subpages->have_posts()) :
$output = ”;
while ($subpages->have_posts()) : $subpages->the_post();
$output .= ”.get_the_post_thumbnail().’
‘.get_the_title().’‘;
endwhile;
$output .= ”;
else :
$output = ‘No images found for this location. Check back soon for new product uploads!’;
endif;
// reset the query
wp_reset_postdata();
// return something
return $output;
}