Title: Name: Children Excerpt Shortcode
Author: ChrisHurst
Published: <strong>दिसम्बर 12, 2011</strong>
Last modified: मार्च 1, 2014

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# Name: Children Excerpt Shortcode

 By [ChrisHurst](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrishurst/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/children-excerpt-shortcode-plugin.1.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/children-excerpt-shortcode-plugin/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/children-excerpt-shortcode-plugin/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/children-excerpt-shortcode-plugin/#installation)
 * [Development](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/children-excerpt-shortcode-plugin/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/children-excerpt-shortcode-plugin/)

## Description

Use the [children-excerpt] shortcode where you want to display the excerpts of the
child pages.
 Defaults to the first 50 words, can be overridden with length attribute
so your excerpts can be set to any length of your choosing.

Developer Website: http://MyWebsiteAdvisor.com

Plugin Page: http://mywebsiteadvisor.com/tools/wordpress-plugins/children-excerpt-
shortcode/

Video Tutorial: http://mywebsiteadvisor.com/learning/video-tutorials/children-shortcode-
plugins-tutorial/

Requirements:

To-do:

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * example use of the plugin shortcode.
 * [[
 * example output of the plugin shortcode.

## Installation

 1. Upload ‘children-excerpt/’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. use the [children-excerpt] shortcode where you want to display the excerpts of 
    the child pages.

## FAQ

Developer Website: http://MyWebsiteAdvisor.com

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Name: Children Excerpt Shortcode” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ ChrisHurst ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrishurst/)
 *   [ MyWebsiteAdvisor ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mywebsiteadvisor/)

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### Interested in development?

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## Changelog

#### 1.3

 * updated code to only show items with a post_status of publish
 * added order and order by arguments to the shortcode.
 * verified compatibility with WP version 3.8.1

#### 1.2

 * added id attribute to shortcode so you can display an excerpt index on any page
   or post not just on the actual parent

#### 1.1

 * Minor Bug Fix

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.7.41**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/children-excerpt-shortcode-plugin/)
 * Tags
 * [children](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/children/)[excerpt](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/excerpt/)
   [Plugin](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/plugin/)[shortcode](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shortcode/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/children-excerpt-shortcode-plugin/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ ChrisHurst ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrishurst/)
 *   [ MyWebsiteAdvisor ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mywebsiteadvisor/)

## Support

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