I want to display an excerpt from a child page on a parent page template. That is what I thought your plugin would do. The excerpt text box appears in the page admin, but calling the_excerpt() from the parent template yields nothing.

My code:

$pageChildren = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_parent = “.$post->ID.” AND post_type = ‘page’ AND post_title=’Biography’ ORDER BY menu_order”, ‘OBJECT’);
if ( $pageChildren ) : foreach ( $pageChildren as $pageChild ) : setup_postdata( $pageChild );
the_excerpt();
endforeach; endif;

Thanks a million.


<?php query_posts('static=true&posts_per_page=-1&child_of='.$id.'&order=ASC'); ?>
<?php if(have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<dt><a href="< ?php the_permalink();? rel="nofollow">">< ?php the_title();?>:
<dd style=""><em><?php the_excerpt(); ?></em></dd>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>


Title of a page
Excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text.

Another page title
Excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text excerpt text.

And so on, with all the subpages of a particular page.

Is this possible?

Thanks

The strange thing with your plugin is what it did to the excerpt box on both pages and posts once it was installed–no more than 1 inch high, small even for the standard excerpt box.

FYI, other plugins that were installed that may have had some issue with all this – “excerpt editor,” “tinymce excerpt editor,” “advanced excerpts,” and of course “headspace2.”

Good luck in figuring it out.