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ChrisHurst

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.
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Name: Children Excerpt Shortcode

Use the [children-excerpt] shortcode where you want to display the excerpts of the child pages.

Alex Mills

When adding a page, category, or any hierarchical custom post type or taxonomy to your navigation menu (Appearance → Menus), this plugin allows you to optionally automatically add all descendants (children) of that menu item as submenu items.
In short, you’ll no longer have to manually maintain submenus when you add a new child page to your site.

Add Descendants As Submenu Items

Still works great. Much better than Gecka Submenu - it doesn't break the layout on the menu screen and there's no unnecessary pro version upsell.  I hope this is updated at some point because its age is hiding it from WP's search results.



Works great and it's clean

Automatically all of a nav menu item's descendants as submenu items. Designed for pages but will work with any hierarchical post type or taxonomy …

Name: Children Excerpt Shortcode vs Add Descendants As Submenu Items