Title: Count Children Author: Luke Mlsna Published: September 22, 2012 Last modified: January 1, 2013 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/count-children.svg) # Count Children By [Luke Mlsna](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bitacre/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/count-children.1.0.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/count-children/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/count-children/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/count-children/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/count-children/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/count-children/) ## Description This plugin allows you to dynamically return the number of children for a particular page. Inserting `[children page="page-slug"]` in a post or page, or `` anywhere in WordPress’ code will return the number of children for that particular page. Useful for creating dynamic table of contents pages, keeping track of page stats, general bragging, or any place where keeping a running tally might be desirable. ### Readme Generator * This plugin’s readme.txt file was generated by the [bitacre Readme Generator](http://shinraholdings.com/project/readme-gen) for WordPress Plugins. ### Support * [Plugin Homepage](http://shinraholdings.com/plugins/count-children) * [plugins@shinraholdings.com](https://wordpress.org/plugins/count-children/plugins@shinraholdings.com?output_format=md) ### Donations [Donations](http://shinraholdings.com/donate) are graciously accepted to support the continued development and maintenance of this and other plugins. We currently accept Paypal and kind words. ## Installation 1. Download the latest zip file and extract the `count-children` directory. 2. Upload this directory inside your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory. 3. Activate ‘Count Children’ on the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress. 4. Insert `[children page="page-slug"]` in a post or page (replacing page-slug with an acutal slug name) to return the number of child pages under that page. ## FAQ How do I add it into my posts? You must insert the shortcode in location where you want to count to appear: (always replacing page-slug with an acutal slug name) * `[children page="page-slug"]` The shortcode assumes you are giving it slugs, but it can also accept page names or IDs: * `[children type="name" page="Parent Page Name"]` * `[children type="id" page="28"]` It keeps returning 0 pages, why? Make sure you’re using the correct page slug, sometimes they are different from the actual page name and capitalization matters. You can view them by clicking on the All Pages link under Pages. Also don’t literally copy “page-slug,” you need to put the parent page you want counted there, that’s just a place holder. So to count the number of children in a page called ‘Book Reviews’ with a slug name of ‘book-reviews’ you would insert`[ children page="book-reviews"]`. Are there other shortcodes? [children] is the primary one, but there is also [countchildren], [childcount], and [pagechildren]. Can I change the shortcode? Yes, just open `count-children.php` and add or change what text you want to trigger the shortcode in the array near the bottom. Can you add this feature I just thought of? Can I? Yes. Will I? Yes, if I think it would be a helpful addition. I’m trying to keep things clean and simple, but there’s always room for improvement, so let me know if you think a feature is lacking! ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Count Children” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Luke Mlsna ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bitacre/) [Translate “Count Children” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/count-children) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/count-children/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/count-children/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/count-children/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/count-children/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0 * First released version. * There may still be bugs, but I can’t find any. ## Meta * Version **1.0.0** * Last updated **13 years ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher ** * Tested up to **3.5.2** * Tags * [count](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/count/)[page](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/page/) [pages](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pages/)[tag](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tag/) [template](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/template/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/count-children/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/count-children/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/count-children/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Luke Mlsna ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bitacre/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/count-children/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](http://shinraholdings.com/donate)