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Having trouble getting the excerpt of a child page from within a parent page. I have a static parent page, that within, lists excerpts of all child pages that are hierarchal of that parent.
For some reason I can return each title and publish date of each individual child page. But when I try to echo get_the_excerpt or the_excerpt all I get is the excerpt or content of the parent-page for every child page listed. Also I’m converting the standard excerpt into a custom trimmed excerpt. This worked on the “front-page” but not in a standard “parent-page”.
Not sure what I’m doing wrong or overlooking.
This is what appears… note: “The parent page content” repetition.
Parent Page Title
The parent page content
Test Child Page Title A
The parent page content<
Nov 16, 2016
Test Child Page Title B
The parent page content
Oct 5, 2016
Using this solution:
<?php
// Begin listing all child pages
$mypages = get_pages( array( 'child_of' => $post->ID, 'sort_column' => 'post_date', 'sort_order' => 'desc' ) );
foreach( $mypages as $page ) { ?>
<div class="paged-entries">
<div class="entry">
<h3 class="page-headline"><?php echo $page->post_title; ?></h3>
<!-- .entry-summary -->
<div class="post-excerpt">
<?php
$content = get_extended( $page->post_content );
$page_excerpt = wpse0001_custom_wp_trim_excerpt($content);
echo $content['main'];
?>
</div>
<!-- end .entry-summary -->
<h6>Published: <?php echo date("M Y", strtotime($pfx_date = get_the_date( $format, $page->ID ))); // d m y ?></h6>
</div>
</div>
<?php
}
?>This is what I’m after:
Parent Page Title
The parent page content
Test Child Page Title A
The child page excerpt A
Nov 16, 2016
Test Child Page Title B
The child page excerpt B
Oct 5, 2016
