Title: Child Pages Shortcode
Author: Takayuki Miyauchi
Published: <strong>October 11, 2011</strong>
Last modified: April 26, 2015

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# Child Pages Shortcode

 By [Takayuki Miyauchi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/miyauchi/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/child-pages-shortcode.1.9.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/child-pages-shortcode/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/child-pages-shortcode/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/child-pages-shortcode/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/child-pages-shortcode/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/child-pages-shortcode/)

## Description

You can use shortcode for display child pages from the page.

[This plugin maintained on GitHub.](https://github.com/miya0001/child-pages-shortcode)

#### Some features

 * This plugin will add shortcode `[child_pages]` display child pages.
 * You can customize default HTML template on your plugin.
 * This plugin will be able to “excerpt” to the pages.

#### Example

Display child pages of the current page.
 [child_pages width=”33%”]

#### Args

 * id – ID of page (Optional)
 * size – Post thumbnail size. e.g. ‘thumbnail’ or ‘large’
 * width – width of block for child pages.
 * disable_shortcode – Shortcode not work in the template if set true.
 * disable_excerpt_filters – filters not work for the excerpt if set true.

#### filter hooks example

Filter for query_posts() query.

    ```
    <?php
        // default args
        $args = array(
            'post_status' => 'publish',
            'post_type' => 'page',
            'post_parent' => $id_for_the_post,
            'orderby' => 'menu_order',
            'order' => 'ASC',
            'nopaging' => true,
        );

        add_filters('child-pages-shortcode-query', "my_query");
        function my_query($args) {
            //
            // some code here
            //
            return $args;
        }
    ?>
    ```

Filter for default template.

    ```
    <?php
        add_filter("child-pages-shortcode-template", "my_template");
        function my_template($template) {
            return '<div class="%class%"><a href="%post_url%">%post_thumb%</a></div>';
        }
    ?>
    ```

Filter for stylesheet URI.

    ```
    <?php
        add_filter("child-pages-shortcode-stylesheet", "my_style");
        function my_style($url) {
            return 'http://example.com/path/to/style.css';
        }
    ?>
    ```

Default Template

    ```
    <div id="child_page-%post_id%" class="child_page" style="width:%width%;">
        <div class="child_page-container">
            <div class="post_thumb"><a href="%post_url%">%post_thumb%</a></div>
            <div class="post_content">
                <h4><a href="%post_url%">%post_title%</a></h4>
                <div class="post_excerpt">%post_excerpt%</div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    ```

Template valiables

 * %post_id% – ID of the Page
 * %width% – Width of block for single page
 * %post_url% – Page permalink
 * %post_thumb% – for Post thubmail
 * %post_title% – Page title
 * %post_excerpt% – Page excerpt

#### Support

 * http://wpist.me/wp/child-pages-shortcode/ (en)
 * http://firegoby.theta.ne.jp/wp/child-pages-shortcode (ja)

#### Contributors

 * [Takayuki Miyauchi](http://wpist.me/)

### Credits

This plug-in is not guaranteed though the user of WordPress can freely use this 
plug-in free of charge regardless of the purpose.
 The author must acknowledge the
thing that the operation guarantee and the support in this plug-in use are not done
at all beforehand.

### Contact

 * http://wpist.me/
 * [@wpist_me](https://twitter.com/#!/wpist_me)

## Installation

 * A plug-in installation screen is displayed on the WordPress admin panel.
 * It installs it in `wp-content/plugins`.
 * The plug-in is made effective.

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

 * A plug-in installation screen is displayed on the WordPress admin panel.
 * It installs it in `wp-content/plugins`.
 * The plug-in is made effective.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[No longer works](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-longer-works-143/)󠁿

 [MoghillPat](https://profiles.wordpress.org/moghillpat/) October 5, 2021

Just for anyone else encountering problems, this plugin outputs php errors in php
7.4 and above

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## Contributors & Developers

“Child Pages Shortcode” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Takayuki Miyauchi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/miyauchi/)

“Child Pages Shortcode” has been translated into 5 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/child-pages-shortcode/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Child Pages Shortcode” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/child-pages-shortcode)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/child-pages-shortcode/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/child-pages-shortcode/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/child-pages-shortcode/)
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## Changelog

#### 1.9.3

 * Tested on WordPress 4.2.

#### 1.9.2

 * Tested on WordPress 4.1.

#### 1.9.1

 * bug fix – js not found

#### 1.9.0

 * bug fix – css syntax error

#### 1.7.0

 * bug fix – missing wp_reset_postdata()

#### 1.6.0

 * bug fix

#### 1.3.0

 * setup_postdata() added.

#### 1.2.0

 * bug fix

#### 1.1.4

 * bug fix on non-responsive theme

#### 1.1.3

 * Bug fix

#### 1.1.2

 * Bug fix

#### 1.0.1

 * Add filter hook “child-pages-shortcode-output”

#### 0.9.0

 * Add filter hook “child-pages-shortcode-query”
 * Load stylesheet by wp_enqueue_style()

#### 0.8.0

 * Add style “max-width:100%”.

#### 0.4.0

 * add `add_post_type_support("page", "excerpt");`

#### 0.3.0

 * Adapt to no-image.

#### 0.1.0

 * The first release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.9.3**
 *  Last updated **8 years ago**
 *  Active installations **5,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.2.39**
 *  Languages
 * [Chinese (China)](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/child-pages-shortcode/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/child-pages-shortcode/),
   [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/child-pages-shortcode/), [Japanese](https://ja.wordpress.org/plugins/child-pages-shortcode/),
   [Portuguese (Brazil)](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/child-pages-shortcode/),
   and [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/child-pages-shortcode/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/child-pages-shortcode)
 * Tag
 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shortcode/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/child-pages-shortcode/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.6 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Takayuki Miyauchi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/miyauchi/)

## Support

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