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The generated output

The structure of a generated excerpt looks like this:

<div class="excerpts-from-children"> <img src="/link/to/image" title="Title of page thumnail" /> <h3>Title from the child page</h3> <p>Excerpt from the child page</p> <p class="read-more"><a href="/link/to/page">Read more »</a></p> </div>

By using the CSS class "excerpts-from-children" you can style your excerpts. To get the image ID needed for the thumbnail, view the thumbnail in the admin interface and check "attachment_id=" in the URL query string. Note that the images doesn't use any scaling applied by WordPress, so crop/resize them to the exact size you want for your excerpt!