i’m trying to do this as well, found a solution?
Completely untested but what about:
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div <?php post_class(); ?>>
<?php
$args = array(
'post_parent' => $post->ID,
'post_type' => 'page',
''post_status' => 'publish'
);
$children = & get_children($args);
if ( empty($children) ) {
// no sub-pages here
} else {
foreach ( $children as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php if( has_post_thumbnail() ) the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<?php the_excerpt();
}
}?>
</div>
I needed the same thing. But I couldn’t get the code above to work for me so I played and read and came up with:
<?php
$args = array(
'post_parent' => $post->ID,
'post_type' => 'page',
'post_status' => 'publish'
);
$postslist = get_posts($args);
foreach ($postslist as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<div class="portfolio_box">
<div>
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
</div>
<div class="indexexcerpt">
<?php the_excerpt(); ?> <div style="text-align:right">[ <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read more</a> ]</div>
</div>
<div class="divider"> </div>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>
I use the plugin Advanced Excerpt to manage how the excerpt work. This is a genius plugin! It will include the image from the post (presuming that it is the first) and let you decide how many words to show, and a lot more. If that doesn’t suit I found a function to grab the first image from a post and display that.
For laymen, don’t forget to consult Codex on get_posts to generate your desired output
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
The array should include number of posts otherwise it will default to 5. You can override the limit altogether with -1.
'numberposts' => 10,
'numberposts' => -1,
