Jason Coleman

Kim Coleman

<p>Shows a list of subpages, with display options for content or excerpts, buttons and links, featured images, and layout. Enter the shortcode [subpagelist] in any page to generate the list. An example shortcode and all shortcode attributes are displayed below:</p>
<h4>Example Subpagelist Shortcode</h4>
<p>[subpagelist exclude=”3,5″ layout=”3col” link=”true” orderby=”title” order=”ASC” show=”excerpt” thumbnail=”thumbnail”]</p>
<h4>Shortcode Attributes Include:</h4>
<ul>
<li>exclude: A comma-separated list of the page IDs to exclude from display. (default: none)</li>
<li>layout: Set this attribute if you would like to list the pages in columns; accepts “2col”, “3col” or “4col”. (default: 1 column)</li>
<li>link: Hyperlink the page title; accepts “true” or “false”. (default: true)</li>
<li>link_text: The “more link” text to display. Accepts “your custom text”. (default: “(more…)”)</li>
<li>orderby: Accepts any orderby parameter as <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#order-orderby-parameters" rel="nofollow ugc">defined in the codex</a>. (default: menu_order)</li>
<li>order: Accepts ASC or DESC as <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#order-orderby-parameters" rel="nofollow ugc">defined in the codex</a>. (default: ASC)</li>
<li>post_parent: Override the parent page ID to pull in a different list of subpages; accepts any page ID. (default: current page ID)</li>
<li>show: Display “excerpt”, “content”, or “none”. (default: excerpt)</li>
<li>show_children: Optionally display an unordered list of the child page’s children; accepts “true” or “false”. (default: false)</li>
<li>thumbnail: Optionally show the subpage’s featured image; accepts “thumbnail”, “medium”, “large” or “false”. (default: false)</li>
<li>thumbnail_align: Optionally force the alignment of the featured image. Leave blank to inherit the suggest alignment for the given layout; accepts “center”, “left”, “right”, “none”. (default: false)</li>
</ul>


Subpagelister

This was a great little piece of code that we used on nearly every WordPress project from 2006 through 2016. We've finally generalized it into a plugin and hope others can find this useful.

Literally have been using this code for over a decade.

Dynamic content organization with flexible display options.

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