Title: Loop returns parent-page
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Loop returns parent-page

 *  [Justin Picard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin-picard/)
 * (@justin-picard)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loop-returns-parent-page/)
 * For a client one-page website I am making I want to run a loop to get the latest
   three blog/news items to show on a page that uses child-pages as ‘sections’ of
   the page. [I found a way](http://digwp.com/2010/01/custom-query-shortcode/) to
   add a shortcode to output the loop on a sub-page, but it only returns the title
   of the parent page.
 * The structure of my one-page website:
 * – One Page (Parent)
    — About us — Menu — News (this is where I would like the
   loop) — Contact
 * I use the [Rosa](http://themeforest.net/item/rosa-an-exquisite-restaurant-wordpress-theme/7920093)
   theme.
 * And here is the code I use in my functions.php:
 *     ```
       function custom_query_shortcode($atts) {
   
          // EXAMPLE USAGE:
          // [loop the_query="showposts=100&post_type=page&post_parent=453"]
   
          // Defaults
          extract(shortcode_atts(array(
             "the_query" => ''
          ), $atts));
   
          // de-funkify query
          $the_query = preg_replace('~&#x0*([0-9a-f]+);~ei', 'chr(hexdec("\\1"))', $the_query);
          $the_query = preg_replace('~&#0*([0-9]+);~e', 'chr(\\1)', $the_query);
   
          // query is made
          query_posts($the_query);
   
          // Reset and setup variables
          $output = '';
          $temp_title = '';
          $temp_link = '';
   
          // the loop
          if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
   
             $temp_title = get_the_title($post->ID);
             $temp_link = get_permalink($post->ID);
   
             // output all findings - CUSTOMIZE TO YOUR LIKING
             $output .= "<li><a href='$temp_link'>$temp_title</a></li>";
   
          endwhile; else:
   
             $output .= "nothing found.";
   
          endif;
   
          wp_reset_query();
          return $output;
   
       }
       add_shortcode("loop", "custom_query_shortcode");
       ```
   
 * And I output it with: `[loop query="posts_per_page=3"]` in the page editor.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loop-returns-parent-page/)
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