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Excerpts from children

Automatically and dynamically create excerpts with user defined length on any page, using the contets of the child pages.

Upload excerpts-from-children to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
Place [excerpts-from-children] in the text of the page you want to use to display the excerpts (the parent page)
Put  in the text area of the child pages, from which you want to extract the excerpt
To add a thumbnail, add a custom field to your child page. Enter "excerpts-from-children-thumb" as key, and an image ID as value.