Title: syntax problem?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# syntax problem?

 *  [chazzbro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chazzbro/)
 * (@chazzbro)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-problem/)
 * Can you tell me why this syntax isn’t working?
 * [pagelist child_of=”8″ number=”4″]
 * It works fine with just the first parameter, and from your examples, this looks
   like it ought to work, but it causes the function to break.
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