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function child_pages_shortcode() {
   global $post;
   return '<ul class="childpages">'.wp_list_pages('echo=0&depth=0&title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID).'</ul>';
}
add_shortcode('children', 'child_pages_shortcode');

5 Responses to “Listing child pages with a shortcode”

1. Demetris says:

   June 9, 2010 at 9:19 am

   Making this into a shortcode or a plugin is a clever idea!

   I use myself the IF EMPTY, SHOW CHILDREN method in a couple of themes (including the one I showed you the other day) but I had never thought of that alternative.

   Cheers!

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2. Jon says:

   September 20, 2010 at 4:26 pm

   Thanks for this.

   I’d may be helpful to others if you clean up the HTML formatting/escaping in the code snippet.

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   • steph says:

     September 22, 2010 at 10:12 pm

     Thanks for letting me know the code had gotten mangled! That happened to a bunch of posts over the summer when I ran a batch job on my database. I thought I’d fixed all the code snippets, but I probably need to check them all again.

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3. Jon says:

   September 20, 2010 at 4:33 pm

   I should of added, this is the code I ended up with (note I changed the shortcode name)
   
// Child Page Shortcode
function child_pages_shortcode() {
global $post;
return ''.wp_list_pages('echo=0&title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID).'';
}
add_shortcode('child_pages', 'child_pages_shortcode');


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4. Miko says:

   April 16, 2011 at 11:47 am

   Thanks for the code, it’s great but I am trying to get the child pages to show in reverse chronological order (newest first, by post date). I tried adding this:

   &sort_column=post_date

   to the wp_list_pages bit, but it doesn’t seem to work. Any clue why not?

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