Show Child Pages with excerpts and "Read more"

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(@exex5123)

Hi!

I have a page on which I want to show only it’s child pages’ excerpts. Underneath these excerpts there should be a “read more” button. I want to achieve this by adding the <—more—> quicktag in the pages.

This is what I have:

<?php
$pages = get_pages( array( 'child_of' => $post->ID, 'sort_column' => 'post_date', 'sort_order' => 'desc' ));
$pagecount = count($pages); ?>
<?php foreach($pages as $page) { ?>
<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class($column); ?>>
	<header class="entry-header">
		<h4 class="entry-title"><?php echo $page->post_title ?></h4>
	</header><!-- .entry-header -->

	<div class="front-page entry-content" id="<?php echo $page->post_name; ?>">
		<?php
		$content = $page->post_content;
		$content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);
		$content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);
		echo $content;
		?>

	</div>

However I don’t get it to show any excerpts! Setting the quicktag doesn’t seem to have any influence and I’m also missing the “read more” links!

How do I get that?

Thank you so much!

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exex5123

(@exex5123)

11 years ago

Got it!

This is my solution:

content-children.php

<?php
/**
 * @since XXXXX
 */
?>

<?php

$args = array(
    'post_type'      => 'page',
    'posts_per_page' => -1,
    'post_parent'    => $post->ID,
    'order'          => 'ASC',
    'orderby'        => 'menu_order'
 );

$parent = new WP_Query( $args );

if ( $parent->have_posts() ) : ?>

    <?php while ( $parent->have_posts() ) : $parent->the_post(); ?>

        <article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class($column); ?>>

		<header class="entry-header">
			<h4 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h4>
		</header><!-- .entry-header -->

			<?php
			global $more;
			$more = 0;
			?>

            <div class="front-page entry-content" id="<?php echo $page->post_name; ?>">
            <?php the_content('<p style="text-align:right">> read more</p>'); ?></p>
            </div>

        </article>

    <?php endwhile; ?>

<?php endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>