Parent-Child Theme Page Again

[ancd]

Bill,

Hi again. Where can we add the following code to display child pages on parent page, in our case: “News” with post ID->11:

$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_title().’

  ‘.get_the_excerpt().’
  Continue Reading →

‘;
endwhile;
$output .= ‘

‘;
else :
$output = ‘

No subpages found.

‘;
endif;

// reset the query
wp_reset_postdata();

// return something
return $output;
}

// turn the function into a shortcode
add_shortcode(‘subpage_peek’, ‘subpage_peek’);

?>

It’s has worked perfectly for others and not sure why it doesn’t work on our site. We’ve tried the code on page.php and page-full.php but no luck. We’ve tried various available parent-children codes on wordpress.org but still no success. We tried on function.php but it was “fatal” but luckily got the site back.

Need your help.

[Bill Robbins]

It looks like that function is attempting to add a shortcode to display child pages. There’s a plugin called Child Pages Shortcode that indicates it will do that too for you.

You can also modify the theme so you can run a shortcode inside a widget. To do that, edit the functions.php file and place this at the bottom:

add_filter( 'widget_text', 'shortcode_unautop');
add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

After you save your changes, you could then create a text widget and place the shortcode for the plugin in the widget. That would cause the child pages to be displayed.

I haven’t tried the plugin, but it’s a worth a shot.

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